3-Fingers Scales

3-Fingers Scale is the way scales evolve naturally because they enable you to play using one single fist like motion to play 3 notes. Most times, the piece you work will require that you use the best combination of fingers possible and whenever 3 or more notes in a scale are played on the same string, it calls in for a 3-fingers approach. Many great players used the 3-fingers scale approach but none mastered it to the extent that Maestro Narciso Yepes did. Below you can hear Yepes play the Amazing scale in Bach Chaconne where he uses the technique.The flow that Yepes achieves is simply astounding and I have never heard anyone else render the piece as majestically since. In 1985 I took lessons with Narciso Yepes in his Las Rosas home. That was the first time I heard the Chaconne and it was love at first sight. The maestro explained to me how he made extensive use of the 3 fingers technique to achieve the stunning flow in the big scale at the end of the first part of the Chaconne.. Click here to hear the scale played by Yepes...

I invite you to read the whole chapter on scales here →