Do others shift into 3rd position to help make playing C tunes (and I guess F tunes?) easier? A friend once gave me that tip, but I have trouble working out where to shift up and shift back, and tend to forget to do it at all and just play in regular position, doing a lot of ring/pinky stretches. Tonight I was working on L & N Rag, an old favorite, and tried working some shifts into it. Indeed, in parts, the fingering is easier when I shift into 3rd, but I still can’t seem to find the best places to shift up and back. Are there any rules of thumb (or index, as it were...) for doing this?
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