Recommended fingering for a bar from "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson
This is an excerpt from "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson:
I can't find a comfortable fingering for the middle bar.
Since the final note in the previous bar is a C, fingered with a 4, I find myself having to play the G# with 1, which is uncomfortable for me.
If I change the C fingering to 3, I get to the G# with a 2, then not knowing what to use on the B, since no options seems to match the rest of the passage.
Do you have any recommendations?
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I would use 3 rather than 4 on the C. Starting with that note: 3-2-1-2-4-1-2-3-1
Another option is playing further into the keyboard; that should make it somewhat more comfortable to play the G# with 1.
You shouldn't worry about "matching the rest of the passage"; play what is most effective.
Yes. Use 1 on G# and get used to it. If you use 2 on G# it makes a mess, but you can still keep 1 and 2 on A and B and only move 2 down for the one G#.
If you can't spread 2 and 3 so much you can use 4 on the 4th 8th-note of the bar.
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