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The Nasty Scales Part 4

by Steve Maus

There is one part left in our selection of scales across all four strings. After our dominant seventh chord we go on: Similar to the first page we have got thirds, just across four strings this time. The published fingering is excellent, so we won’t change that. If you have a copy with two options [...]

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The Nasty Scales Part 3

by Steve Maus

Let’s shift to the second gear. Or better: the second page. If you turn the page you’ll stumble upon the three octave scales on all four strings. The pattern used for practicing those scales is similar to the scales on one string. We work on every scale, every triad seperately and we carry on to [...]

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The Nasty Scales Part 2

by Steve Maus

I hope you made good progress with your scales, which are a little dry, I must admit. But they are excellent exercises to improve speed, precision and intonation. Today we have a look at the remaining part of the scales on one string. Let’s start with the thirds: This time we have four notes on [...]

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The Nasty Scales Part 1

by Steve Maus

Actually I planned to post an article about the bow hold. But in the past weeks there have been several questions about practicing scales. So, here we go. A couple of years ago one of my teachers told me something like this: Everybody who wants to have at least a little success on the violin [...]

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How to play fast Notes Part 2

by Steve Maus

In the first part we looked at four-note-patterns, today we’ll see what we can do with six-note-patterns, a problem occurring very often as well. For our example I took Bach’s Presto from his Violin Sonata G minor: We have an almost endless chain of sixteenth notes, an excellent example how Galamian’s rhythm and bowing patterns [...]

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How to play fast Notes Part 1

by Steve Maus

How do we practise fast notes? Very slowly. Well, it’s not that easy. Sure, the first and most important premise for playing fast is to play right and in tune. That’s only acquired by playing slowly. But sometime you have to increase speed and many people fail during this process. How can we get to [...]

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Developing Speed

by Steve Maus

“I‘m too slow!” Recently a student said this when he tried to play Rieding’s Violin Concerto in A minor. He desperately tried to increase speed to original tempo and failed. His problems were not only the lack of sufficient practise with this particular piece. He was too slow in general. How can we increase our [...]

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