Hi, I am new here and thanks for the opportunity to read much interesting info.
I’ve seen all the reasons from contributors to prefer C over B-griff, but I have a 5 row B system and will be sticking with it for better or worse.
I am a musician and after a few months am progressing without a teacher reasonable quickly. Or so I like to think!
So this is for players of B-griff instruments, and it is about hand position: There seems to be fairly consistent advice in Russian tutors and on YouTube, to play RH scales with the RH hand pointing down towards the left foot. (So C major scale fingered 2,4,3,4 etc, with no thumb) But when you watch advanced B-system players, especially 5-row rather than 3, the RH is invariably square-on to the fingerboard in a position similar to PA and with the thumb available for any of the rows of buttons. Scales fingered with the thumb in this square-on position are quite feasible, so can anyone advise on the general hand position for scales, arpeggios etc, especially while establishing memory of where all the notes are?
Many thanks.
I’ve seen all the reasons from contributors to prefer C over B-griff, but I have a 5 row B system and will be sticking with it for better or worse.
I am a musician and after a few months am progressing without a teacher reasonable quickly. Or so I like to think!
So this is for players of B-griff instruments, and it is about hand position: There seems to be fairly consistent advice in Russian tutors and on YouTube, to play RH scales with the RH hand pointing down towards the left foot. (So C major scale fingered 2,4,3,4 etc, with no thumb) But when you watch advanced B-system players, especially 5-row rather than 3, the RH is invariably square-on to the fingerboard in a position similar to PA and with the thumb available for any of the rows of buttons. Scales fingered with the thumb in this square-on position are quite feasible, so can anyone advise on the general hand position for scales, arpeggios etc, especially while establishing memory of where all the notes are?
Many thanks.
