Practice: 250 step-by-step practice methods for the violin

The music examples in "Practice", drawn from the standard solo violin repertoire, illustrate typical musical and technical demands that arise during the normal course of playing.

By learning how to practise one passage, you learn how to practise other passages of the same type.

With more than 750 music examples (chosen from over 100 works) and over 100 photographs, "Practice" is prackes with ideas and information to help you get the very most out of every minute that you practise.
-Some of the practice method are ways to solving problems.
-Some are ways of finding out what the problems actually are. So often we know that something is not quite right, but we do not know why.
-Some are ways of trying to cause yourself problems, so that afterwards what you actually have to do feels easier.
-Some practice methods build and improve technique at the same time as making a specific passage easier to play. Then all other passages of that type take less time to learn because they feel easier to play in the first place.

"Practice" is intended just as much for the teacher as for the player. It offers a wide range of answers to the musical and technical problems that students typically present, and adds to any teacher's "library" of practice methods that they pass on to their students.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Index of music exemples
General index

1. Fast passaf¡ges
2. Tone
3. Key strokes
4. Left hand
5. Shifting
6. Intonation
7. Freedom and ease
8. Further essentials