Hey Woodie,

Don't know if its yer memory or someone taught it wrong, but the fingerings for this were all worked out several centuries ago.

I don't need to go into all the proper fingerings, for they will be shown in any good scale book and likely the information is also available for free online in more than several places.

Suffice it to say that in the RH, there are several scales that start on the second finger. And that only makes sense if you try to plays, say a Bb Major scale starting with the thumb. The crossover to thumb from 3rd note D to 4th note Eb is impoosible when attempting to finger it same as say, C Major scale.

When practicing your scale fingerings, don't neglect the chromatic scale, up and down. That's one useful mutha, or, as an old improvisation teacher used to say, "redemption is always only a half step away..."


--Mac

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