Learning and Practicing the Violin
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Up to now I’ve been a little hesitant when it came to hints and tips concerning fingering and bowing since they are very personal and depend to a certain extent on our personal taste. But I was asked about a particular passage in Bruch’s Violin Concerto that is much easier to handle with a different [...]
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Today we’ll focus on the chords in Bruch’s violin concerto. We often come across those kind of chords in violin literature, so basically we can apply our practicing pattern there as well, no matter if we play Bruch, Vieuxtemps or Waxman. Now let’s have a look at this: At first glance a tohubohu of notes [...]
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Some weeks ago I was asked if I could provide some kind of operating instructions for Bruch’s violin concerto. Well, it’s hard to do this, first because of the amount of information. If I wanted to write such an operating manual I would have to publish an entire book. Second, because every violinist has different [...]
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Shortly before the Easter week let us come to the question “how much time should we invest for practicing?” Or, to be more precise, how should we arrange our practicing time? As a teacher I’m tempted to say “as long and as often as possible”. But this is only partly true. Our concentration will upset [...]
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In technically more sophisticated pieces we often come across double stops that are really difficult to play. Today I’ll show you an example how we can practice them very efficiently without wasting too much time. For this example I chose Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1, first movement, letter E: This is really hard to play [...]
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Recently I was asked if I could provide some example how to practice fast ascending passages. Well, sure I can. Today we’ll have a look at some measures in Bruch’s Violin Concerto in g-Minor: A few bars later we find a corresponding passage which we’ll have to deal with today: A rather difficult part of [...]
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In measure 246 in the Brahms Concerto we find a particularly interesting passage for the solo violin. We’ll have a look at this because today we will concentrate on practicing double stops or, in our case, even triple stops. I did without fingering because first of all I want to show you a possible way [...]
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To show you some more practicing techniques we carry on with this concerto. Let’s focus on the first ascent: This one is really difficult if we want to play it well. A certain intonation quality should be present already. If not, have a look at this technique again and concentrate on practicing interval by interval [...]
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Let’s summarize what we have seen so far. If we really want to get better on our instrument, if we want to save time to achieve the utmost precision we must not merely play through over and over again, particularly at the beginning of the learning phase of a new piece. We must avoid practicing [...]
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