From jake92028@yahoo.com Tue Aug 03 22:31:41 2004
Subject:Trim responses please

D'ya think we could cut the no longer needed text after the most
obvious first few lines of multiple re-read/responded-to posts?
Please? My finger's getting sore both from practicing the scales and
holding down the Scroll button! #^) Walter
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> I've seen is suggested that the D natural be included in the blues
scale
> resulting in a very natural transition sliding thumb under 3rd on
Db to
> index finger back on Eb. Works great in all kets too.
>
> >From: "Lon R. Hultgren"
> >Reply-To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> >To: "'CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com '"
> >Subject: RE: [CWSG] Re: Eb vs E -- getting to the next octave
> >Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 03:38:28 -0400
> >
> >OK, I get the thumb on the white key thing ... however, given
> the number of
> >fingers I have and the number of white keys in the Eb blues
> scale, I still
> >end up with an awkward move since there is only one white key to
tuck on
> >(A). If I'm using my index finger on Eb, it works fine for the
> first tuck
> >at the A (fingers 2,3,4, and then T going up), but then if one is
> >continuing
> >the run up, how do you get from the Db to the Eb to begin again
> on the next
> >octave? I've been using the thumb on the Eb, so the second tuck is
from
> >the
> >4th finger on Db then the thumb on Eb ... which is awkward, but
not as
> >awkward as going from the 4th finger on Db to the index finger on
Eb ...
> >Yes?
> >
> >So what is the consensus on the transition from Db to Eb at the
> end of the
> >1st octave going up? What finger to do you use on that 2nd Eb???
> >
> >Lon H.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Kevin Anker
> >To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: 8/3/2004 12:57 AM
> >Subject: [CWSG] Re: Eb vs E
> >
> >--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "Lon R. Hultgren"

> >wrote:
> > > Interesting ... I find the Eb blues scale a bit cumbersome
compared to
> >E.
> > > How do you finger it? Which pinky do you put on the Eb?
> >
> >I think that that depends on which "side" of the blues scale you're
> >looking at. If you're
> >looking at the minor side of it, e,g,a,Bb,b,d, then E is a little
more
> >natural, but if you're
> >looking at the major side of it, e, f#, g, g#, b c#, then the blues
> >scale in Eb is much easier,
> >at least in my book, YMMV.
> >
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