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This collection contains practice ideas for deepening technical challenges on the violin and viola. The topics at a glance:

  1. Scales: in one position, on one string, over several octaves
  2. Increasing fluency: interaction of the left and the right hand
  3. Changing strings: movements of the left and the right arm in interaction 
  4. Interval as double grips
  5. Chor technique: focus on the left hand
  6. Left-hand pizzicato as a playing technique: a transition from practicing to playing technique

The most important thing is in the detail

The ideas presented in this mini-subscription are for those who love details. If you are not one of them yet, give yourself a chance and, above all, a little time. The more thorough you are in the first steps of each module, the better the result will be at the end of the module.

Erdmute Maria Hohage / Angelika S. Schepke

Authors of the mini subscription

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Improve with the left

Background

Practicing technique left-hand pizzicato

Foot work

Notes

1.) Scales

1.) Step 1

1.) Step 2

1.) Step 3

1.) Step 4

1.) Step 5

1.) Step 6

1.) Step 7

2.) Increasing fluency

2.) Step 1

2.) Step 2

2.) Step 3

2.) Step 4

3.) String crossing

3.) Step 1

3.) Step 2

3.) Step 3

3.) Step 4

3.) Step 5

4.) Interval as double grips

4.) Step 1

4.) Step 2

4.) Step 3

5.) Chord technique

5.) Step 1

5.) Step 2

5.) Step 3

5.) Step 4

5.) Step 5

6.) Left-hand pizzicato

6.) Step 1

6.) Step 2

6.) Step 3

6.) Step 4

6.) Step 5

6.) Step 6

6.) Step 7

6.) Step 8

6.) Step 9