Slurred String Crossings
- make sure to change strings at half way through the bow
- try to maintain a consistent contact point. As you move to lower strings, your contact point is closer to the bridge and vice versa. Try to maintain one point.
D major 2 octaves
- very nicely curled fingers
- work on 8 per bow
G major 2 octaves
- add 4 per bow
- think of pushing frog away at the tip when on the A string
- don’t stop bow for the shift
- get the weight out of the string more for shift
- repeat and slur the shift
Whale Song
- Practice saying note names before plucking
- C drone
- add bow
- metronome
Tired Tortoise
- left arm higher (before)
- start the shift into 1st position sooner
- Dynamics
- slow drone work: G and C
- show character change between 1st and 2nd lines. second line more in the string, softer, more connect
- quieter: less bow, less weight, mid-upper half of the bow
Minuet No. 2
- Tri-pul-et: practice singing, clapping and playing this rhtyhm with the metronome – 60-70 bpm
- no fishing on the A string
- more bow when it is FORTE
- work on fully memorizing and increasing the tempo
- Bow pinky down