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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1exceptions to every rule and so there are times when a note in a passage or phrase can best be played (taste requiring this) by an extension of the finger to another position while the hand remains stationary, the playing in the original position immediately being taken up after this excursion to another position on the part of the finger.
3There are also times when taste demands that a portamento from the open string to a tone in a higher position be employed. This may be brought about by lightly resting the first finger on the string below the saddle and proceeding as in ordinary shifting whether the note to be shifted be on the same or another string.
5The Left Thumb and Shifting.—In moving to the second or third positions from the first, the thumb retains its position with relation to the hand, the hand and thumb moving as a unit. In descending, the latter precedes the hand, going almost beyond the position that is sought and only clinching the neck of the instrument when the finger that is to be played falls into place on the string; the clinching of the thumb and the falling of the finger should occur simultaneously. The finger last used should remain in position during the preparatory movement of the thumb. In the upward shifting, the tone connection is accomplished by the finger last used moving up on the string until the hand is in the new position when the finger to be used is placed on the string.
7In shifting, use at all times the finger that has been played and not the one to be played, to bring about the connection. If this rule is adhered to the student will do the shifting with the hand and always be in position before the actual playing is done. This correct way of passing from one position to another will not fail to bring about a clean technic and a fearlessness which will stand in good stead when technical problems of great difficulty are encountered.
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