When playing a chromatic sixes exercise like this one:
—2—3—4—5—4—3—2—3-–4–-5-–4-–3— [etc, etc…]
I have a natural tendency to lift my index finger off the 2nd fret as I’m playing the subsequent ascending notes, and then don’t plant it again until I’ve descended back down to the 1st note.
Logic dictates that, at least with a rudimentary repeating exercise like this, keeping the index finger planted on the 2nd fret would be the more efficient movement. There’s literally no good reason to ever lift it.
However, I find it far more difficult to keep it planted. Lifting it feels more natural and I can actually play the phrase much faster/cleaner by lifting my index finger.
Should I just do what feels more natural for me (lifting it), or instead work on keeping it planted?
EDIT: In fact, I just noticed that I’m actually lifting every one of my fingers after I play a note when, again, it seems like it would be more efficient to keep them planted until lifting is actually necessary. Thoughts?