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Shifting Techniques Part 9

by Steve Maus

In the past weeks I got several questions about shifts, correct positions and exercises to improve shifts generally. So let’s take a short break from our practicing series and let’s focus on shifts again. In this article I’ve already mentioned Sevick’s “Op. 8″. A particularly amazing work when it comes to shifts. In that post [...]

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Higher Positions

by Steve Maus

Before we proceed with our shifting techniques I’d like to provide some photos how to cope with higher positions on the violin because there are some significant differences between lower (1. to 4.) and higher (>5.) positions. Perhaps you remember our left hand geometry we talked about in part 3. Our hand should look like [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 4

by Steve Maus

The Czech violinist Otakar Sevcik wrote numerous exercises about bowing techniques, double stops and shifts as well. Interesting for us is his book op.8, written especially for shifting problems. Unfortunately I gave my sample to one of my students, so I must recall it from memory. I don’t know the exact number of this exercise, [...]

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