![]() The quicker you play the quicker you release the third or fourth finger. That is I release either the third or fourth finger earlier so that before the thumb actually plays the hand is already untwisting and the second finger is in proper position to strike its note. What I do is begin to cheat as the tempo increases. I have found the hard part is after the thumb has played, the hand is twisted getting the second finger in position to play is where most of the real difficulties occur. Learn to move the thumb smoothly behind each finger as it plays. The thumb passing under the hand is the easy part. I am only going to talk about one aspect of fast scale playing, and that is the right hand going up. I can play faster, but never bothered to see how fast. ![]() What I did do was to practice all kinds of touches, dynamics, beat pulses and combinations so that I not only played the scales at that speed, I played them with complete control. I got my scales up to 160 - beat equals quarter notes playing sixteenth notes, and then stopped caring how fast I was playing.
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