Hi Herbert: I don't understand how getting the strings to buzz is going to help. I am not trying to be contrary or argumentative but this seems to be counterproductive in achieving a good tone, especially in scalar passages. I am always willing to learn and understand other techniques and path ways and would really like a more detailed explanation of how this works. Could you please elaborate?
Thank You Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Interesting LH pressure exercise. > > Here is an exercise which sounds worse the better you do it. > > If you fret a string with normal LH pressure, it sounds OK. > > If you fret a string with little LH pressure, the string does not reach > the fret, and sounds with a simple thud. > > Between these two pressures is a point where the string buzzes against its > fret. > > The exercise is to play scalar passages at this in-between point, > eliciting a buzz on every note. This is quite difficult for me -- there > is very little margin of error, and I can get a good buzz from only 1 note > in 4. > > The point, of course, is to develop a well-regulated LH pressure, > perfectly independent of RH activity, in the hope that minimum LH > pressure, and hand independence, will lead to more speed and fluidity. > > A variation, productive of further hand independence, is to cycle between > forte and piano with the RH, without disturbing the LH's quest for buzzes. > >
