[musictlk] piano question

[Kenneth Downey]

Yeah, it's like I say, the thumb and pinky just don't land on the Black Keys when he played it from attic scales… But I've never heard of anybody saying you shouldn't use your thumb her pinky. It's just that their fingers that are closer to just about every black key in just about every skill you can play.

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> On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Amy Billman via musictlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> But it's not up to her to determine what is more comfortable for a student.
> And, that's different than your statement of her saying that you shouldn't
> use your thumbs. They're two different things.
> 
> Meanwhile, in my nine plus years taking piano growing up, I've never heard
> of this practice...
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelsey
> Nicolay via musictlk
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> To: sandragayer7 at gmail.com; Music Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [musictlk] piano question
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> I think she told me that it's an issue of comfort.  She thinks it 
> would be more comfortable for the student if the thumbs don't 
> have to reach the black keys, so we've always just avoided it.
> 
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