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Shifting Techniques Part 8

by Steve Maus

Sometimes we have to play differently than we are accustomed to, concerning our shifts as we talked about previously. That happens occasionally when we look at pieces from the Romantic period.
Sometimes we come across things like this:

This is measure 13 from Sarasate’s Gypsy Airs.
The “II” and the “III” beneath the notes indicate the string for [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 6

by Steve Maus

Today we’ll have a look into the first measures of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e Minor. I took the original fingering by Igor Oistrach. Sometimes his fingering is a bit difficult to play because he had huge hands, but in this case it’s absolutely playable by people with normal sized fingers.

We begin with the second [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 5

by Steve Maus

We shouldn’t always shift upwards on the last played finger. There is one exception that is very important for reasons of sound.
Let’s have a look again at our example we had in part 3 and concentrate on bar 3 and 4:

If we perform our shift like the others we would slide on the last finger, [...]

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