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when it comes to intonation strategies
building an internal map of the
fingerboard is a crucial component of
that and so I'd like to introduce you to
something calling the phantom hand
exercise so it's not nearly as sinister
as it sounds but hopefully it will open
your eyes to some ways of thinking about
the fingerboard so what we're gonna do
first is we're gonna do an a major scale
one octave on the g string I thought
about doing G just to keep it on the
more straightforward side but I do like
the idea of having the sympathetic
resonance of the a to relate to the the
pitches that we're playing so the first
thing that we're going to do is we're
gonna play each note and go up a step
and then overlap on the last note that
we've played and then play the next note
so the beginning of that is going to be
A to B and then B to C sharp
and then C sharp to D
so we'll go up the whole scale like that
playing the two notes in position
overlapping the last note that you
played in the old position with the new
position and continuing up the scale I'm
trying to be aware of where all my
fingers are all the time so no flyaway
or unaccounted for fingers and really
matching both the the location and the
sound of the note that I've overlapping
so of course always listening but if you
have access to a mirror looking to see
that I'm actually covering to that same
spot with the new finger if you don't
have access to a mirror get one it's a
fairly inexpensive way to accelerate
your improvement
now we'll do that and we're gonna finger
through the exact same scale but I'm
going to leave out every other one so
that's going to look like this
okay so it's exactly the same I'm just
only playing every other one of those
now I'm gonna do it again and I'm gonna
think about the ones that I'm not
playing I'm gonna try to visualize in as
much detail as possible so thinking
about it physically hearing those
pitches feeling what it would feel like
inside but not actually doing it okay
now we're gonna do it one more time and
we're gonna overlap the visualizing with
the playing so as I'm playing here I'm
thinking about that link
and I'm just putting a place straight
through the scale you'll notice at the
end when I get two to three just like in
the preparation that my thumb is on
f-sharp so I've got that whole hand
position in place even though I'm only
playing the the two three on top there
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