My fabulous colleague and friend Nora Karakousoglou has created a Patreon site to help any string player become the best practicers they can be.

In this section you will find links and tools to assist you during your practice time and in performing.
The practice tools are grouped in the following sections:
* Warm-up exercises
* Scales and scale practice
* Tips related to the fingerboard
* Shifting
* Bowing
* Charts that have to do with these topics

ACMP – Associated Chamber Music Players – is a non-profit organization that facilitates the playing of chamber music for pleasure by people of all ages and nationalities, from beginners to professionals.

This is the little warm up exercises demonstrated in the interview with Elise Winters.

ScalesAce is designed to complement the many resources already available to violin students preparing for their ABRSM practical exams. It provides a useful reference to help confirm fingerings, finger spacings and tuning whilst students are practising on their own.

This websites offers PDF files for 1-, 2- and 3-octave scales in different keys. The PDF file contains the scale (with indication for shifting), arpeggios, and broken thirds.

An Intonation, Note-Reading, Theory & Shifting System by Barbara Barber.
I highly recommend getting this book.

These workbooks are developed by Diane Allen, an expert contributor on Violin Lab.
They are excellent for learning fingerboard geography. And they are designed to help not only beginning players, but any violinist learn where the notes are (all of them in any position!) on the violin.

This is my favorite shifting study to exercise the movements needed for large shifts into high positions.

These exercises will keep you busy with string crossings..and will help build rhythmic prowess as well!

This is an exercise I made to gently go from repeated note sautillé to single note sautillé.

In this handout, I've outlined most of the conventions violinists adhere to when marking bowings on their music.

A comprehensive list and video demonstration of all our many bow strokes.

Shaded notes D, A, E, B show the pitch where the next higher string begins and indicates the end of first position.

This chart shows all the pitches as well as the position of your tapes. This might make the overview of the fingerboard more comprehendible for those of you who use tapes.

Joe Percival drafted this worksheet. He finds it helpful to map out the notes of the song he's working on to see how the notes on the staff relate to the fingerboard.

This video is a demo on how to use this chart.

This is a beautifully designed chart by Elke to follow along with the video on Kinesthetic Intonation. Be sure to print on card stock and use the sliding pitch line for maximum benefit.

Stephen Neff designed the following charts to help memorize the note names for each string. Print, laminate and study!