I just ordered my copy of Fingering Mastery in the hope of finding more interesting ways of scale practice beyond first position, two octave basics. On receiving and opening it I find myself in complete bewilderment. I can only guess at what I am looking at.
Can anyone give me some hints at how to interpret the (undoubtedly valuable) diagrams.
I am primarily a 'black dot' player. I set a piece of music in front of myself, figure out how to play it and practice , practice, practice until I hear the music forming. My preference is for Baroque era pieces (currently working on my own transcription of Handel's Entrace of the Queen of Sheeba) I'm not into improvisation, Jazz, Rock or Bluegrass.
If anyone out there is familiar with Brent & Barkley's theoretical investigations could you let me know how to read the diagrams and whether a study of modal forms is useful to me.
Thanks in anticipation
Peter Docherty
P.S. I live near Sydney Australia if that's relevant
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