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Anyone hip to Sid Jacobs Three Octave Scale Fingerings? He uses a first finger position shift and the shapes line up with arpeggios really well.
Any thoughts on this?
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01-22-2017 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by bobsguitars09
This is what I think about.
F major scale
Low to high
1 3 5 6
3 5 7 8
5 7 8 10
7 9 10 12
10 11 13 15
12 13
Sorry, it was just an idea.
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Major Scale fingering
1-1-3-4/1-3-4 and repeats
G A B C/D E F
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Originally Posted by bobsguitars09
In gypsy jazz, they do quite the same thing with arpeggios, scales.
Repeating the same thing, same fingering with a shift.
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Very cool!
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I ran across that the other day. One pattern uses a 1-2-4 fingering with first-finger shifts and the other one (that I saw) uses a 1-3-4 pattern. Easy and efficient, yes.
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I thought about something
This is a fingering for F major scale
1 1 3 4 (1 3 5 6)
F G A Bb
1 1 3 4 (3 5 7 8)
C D E F
1 3 4 4 (5 7 8 10)
G A Bb C
1 3 4 4 (7 9 10 12)
D E F G
1 2 4 (10 11 13)
A Bb C
1 3 4 (10 12 13)
D E F
What a weird thing !!!
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That's pretty much it, Mark although writing both examples in C major will more clearly demonstrate the symmetry of the fingerings (G major would start with the low open E string). Each octave starts with a shift and follows the same fingering pattern:
Jacobs outlines similar patterns for harmonic and melodic minor scales. They're very logical and their repetition at the octave is a very pianistic concept. By the way, I'm not sure who first came up with these fingerings but Chuck Wayne, who was a genius when it came to rethinking the architecture of the guitar fretboard includes them in his Scales book under the name 'double extended fingerings'.Last edited by PMB; 01-22-2017 at 09:18 PM.
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Lots of useful getting from here to there horizontal symmetry - the melodic and harmonic minor versions are great
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Check out Segovia's fingerings as well.
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For violin, having a short scale, playing 4 notes on a string within a scale is the norm.
Given the symmetrical tuning in 5ths, this results in a comfortable position fingering (1-2-3-4)
16 notes (2 octaves + 1 more note).
My other instrument:
Cello scale length is similar to guitar. Generally we play 3 scale notes per hand shape. The tuning in 5ths creates an incomplete scale when playing across the neck in this way. This means that the standard scale fingerings will require many shifts. The violin hand shape of 1-2-3-4 is not a viable option for cellist hands of common proportions.
1-1-2-4 and 1-1-3-4 ascending and 4-4-2-1 and 4-4-3-1 descending is an approach that I use at times that
I use but is not the norm. On the bright side for cellists, when we integrate our thumb, it opens up a 4 note
hand shape played Th-1-2-3.
Guitar:
I on occasion have toyed around with 4 notes per string doing a hand pivot around a stable thumb (1-2-3-4)
or my cello moves (1-1-2-4/1-1-3-4). I have never achieved comfort enough to integrate it into real playing situations.
All power to Sid Jacobs and other guitarists who have done so.
To navigate 3 or so octaves, my preference is to use combinations of 3 note positional fragments shifting upward.
Ex. shifting 6 note scale fragments (3+3)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13--15--17-------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13--15--17---------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------12--14--15-----------------------------------------
---------------------------------------7--8--10--**--12--14--15----------------------------------------------------------------
-------------1--3--5-**--7--8--10-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---1--3--5------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ex. shifting 5 note scale fragments (2+3)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17--19--20-------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13--15--17--**--19--20----------------
---------------------------------------------------------9--11--12--**--14--16-------------------------------------------
--------------------------------5--7--9--**--10--12---------------------------------------------------------------------
----------2--3--5--**--7--9-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---3--5---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I guess in some ways, guitar is my safe haven from having to rely on navigating 4 notes per hand shape.
Although these are fun to practice, and present an interesting problem to solve, I haven't found that 3 octave
runs come up much in my playing. I would have to summon my inner Art Tatum to start hearing in that language.
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How does he start these shapes in other keys? Let's say the key of Eb?
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Originally Posted by bobsguitars09
Last edited by PMB; 01-30-2017 at 02:01 AM.
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@PMB, I get an error when trying to view your attachment.
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Originally Posted by edh
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Originally Posted by PMB
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Are there any advantages when using the Segovia fingerings? They are pretty similar
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Happened on this page again. Been awhile. Tried to 'like' a few posts but nothing happened when I clicked on the thumbs up.
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Works for me, Mark.
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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Doesn't work for me either with #3. How strange!
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I can like the posts that have a dotted line at the bottom (I think it defines where the signature element goes?).
Short posts without this line can’t be liked.
(this is on an iPad).
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Here is a video of Sid Jacobs giving two fingerings of the C major scale (as PMB showed above) and also the A harmonic minor and A melodic minor scales (which relate to the C major scale--only one note difference in each case.)
In all octaves, any particular note is played with the same finger it is played in in a lower or higher octave.
In melodic minor there is a mix of 1-34 and 12-4 fingerings.
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------------------------------------------------------7-8-10---12-14-15--------
---------------------------------------5-7-*8*-10--------------------------------
-------------------------------4-5-7---------------------------------------------
------------------1-3-*5*-7------------------------------------------------------
----------1-2-5--------------------------------------------------------------------
--*3*-5----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The trick is to always use the same finger on the first note.
In this example, notes surrounded by * * are all played
with the second finger.
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Digging in to his complete book of jazz guitar lines. Finding it most excellent.
Could be titled "Nice Jazz Lines You Can Immediately Use"
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