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Yeah me too.

This fingering is used by Busoni in his edition of Liszt's Chasse-Neige, starting on E:

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It's benificial in that it's the same pattern for every octave, as opposed to the other Liszt fingering which is for 2 octaves.. it's a tad awkward coming down though...

Yep, this is what I was taught as well.

Or he could just mean "my fingering" as in "the fingering I use"...Which is the way my teacher speaks, the way that I speak, and the way that most people would speak when comparing or teaching fingerings they have learned.

No need to always be condescending....

I've always used 1-3-1-3-1-2-3-1-3-1-3-1-2-3 etc.

You can say that when you've originated the fingering, or play that fingering in a piece. But fingering for scales don't really belong to anyone (except for whoever created them) since they've been standardized for the most part.

If he said "my fingering" for a piece he was demonstrating, and then did the editorial fingering versus his fingering, I wouldn't nitpick. Also, "the fingering I use" is to me wholly different than "my fingering". Note that no one in the thread has said, "That's my fingering as well."

As for the Liszt fingering, I tried it and it felt quite uncomfortable passing the thumb underneath the fourth when it's on G. Should I be playing closer to the black keys, or does it always feel that way?