I learned this tune off The Dangerous Reel by Mike and Mary Rafferty so my version is a little different. I play b/c box and I am having a hell of a time deciding which fingers to use where. Obviously this is a very inefficient way of asking the question but it is all I have. I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone could offer!!
This is the most logical fingering I can come up with so if anyone can describe a better one please do
"I play b/c box and I am having a hell of a time deciding which fingers to use where"
I usually use the ones on the right hand, and on the little white buttons. If that helps...
More seriously, I'm no expert, but these fingerings seem to work. If you're looking for variety, in bar 4, you might try slipping the first finger from the G of bar 3 to the F, and then the same trick with the second finger coming off the A:
dBd dBG|FAF DFA|
323 321|122 121|
Of course you can also play the ede on the draw, using the fourth finger to hit the e. Then too you could make use of the fourth finger to get that B in the fifth bar and bring the first finger up to get the A, like so:
FAF DFA| BAB GBd|
122 123 | 412 123| ....
But there's a lot of different ways to get at the notes, and there's probably a lot of viable alternatives. Is there a particular passage you're finding tricky, or is it just not falling well under the fingers?
"I heard that one shouldn't slide fingers from one button to another"
I've never heard that rule (which doesn't mean a whole lot, there's a lot I don't know) but I find that it's pretty useful at times to shift position by slides, or to tap the C# off the D with the same finger (usually the second finger). You get a bit of a different sound, smoother instead of choppier, if you like that. It might take a bit of practice to make the slides come clean, you don't want to get two notes at once, but it's no more difficult than going from one finger to the next, really.
which buttons for which fingers???
which buttons for which fingers???
I learned this tune off The Dangerous Reel by Mike and Mary Rafferty so my version is a little different. I play b/c box and I am having a hell of a time deciding which fingers to use where. Obviously this is a very inefficient way of asking the question but it is all I have. I would greatly appreciate any advice that anyone could offer!!
This is the most logical fingering I can come up with so if anyone can describe a better one please do
T: Road To Ballinakill, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:A|BAB GBd|ede Gce|dBd dBG|FAF DFA|
1 212 123 333 123 323 321 232 121
BAB GBd|ede Gce|dBG DFA|BGF G2:|
212 123 333 123 432 121 3 21 2
aj
# Posted on November 30th 2007 by berserker
Re: which buttons for which fingers???
"I play b/c box and I am having a hell of a time deciding which fingers to use where"
I usually use the ones on the right hand, and on the little white buttons. If that helps...
More seriously, I'm no expert, but these fingerings seem to work. If you're looking for variety, in bar 4, you might try slipping the first finger from the G of bar 3 to the F, and then the same trick with the second finger coming off the A:
dBd dBG|FAF DFA|
323 321|122 121|
Of course you can also play the ede on the draw, using the fourth finger to hit the e. Then too you could make use of the fourth finger to get that B in the fifth bar and bring the first finger up to get the A, like so:
FAF DFA| BAB GBd|
122 123 | 412 123| ....
But there's a lot of different ways to get at the notes, and there's probably a lot of viable alternatives. Is there a particular passage you're finding tricky, or is it just not falling well under the fingers?
# Posted on December 1st 2007 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: which buttons for which fingers???
I heard that one shouldn't slide fingers from one button to another. but the passages you suggested are the ones I am having difficulty with...
aj
# Posted on December 1st 2007 by berserker
Re: which buttons for which fingers???
Any of the above but in Bar 7 I'd use 321 212, as I don't use my 4th finger at all.
# Posted on December 1st 2007 by millionyears_bc
Re: which buttons for which fingers???
"I heard that one shouldn't slide fingers from one button to another"
I've never heard that rule (which doesn't mean a whole lot, there's a lot I don't know) but I find that it's pretty useful at times to shift position by slides, or to tap the C# off the D with the same finger (usually the second finger). You get a bit of a different sound, smoother instead of choppier, if you like that. It might take a bit of practice to make the slides come clean, you don't want to get two notes at once, but it's no more difficult than going from one finger to the next, really.
# Posted on December 1st 2007 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: which buttons for which fingers???
slides, up/down row or across rows are ok IMHO. They can be as crisp or as smooth as you like with practice.
# Posted on December 1st 2007 by millionyears_bc