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Essential Left Hand Technique

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Shifting: 101

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Placement Issues for Left Thumb

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Low 1s and 4s

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Challenges of Playing in Flat Keys

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Finger Spacing Pattern: All Spaces

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Essential Right Hand Technique

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Arm Preparation for String Crossings

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Advanced Bow Hold

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Finger Motion at the Frog

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Keeping Fast Detaché Strokes Straight

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Bow Arm Consideration: Wrist and Elbow Levels

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Independence Between Left and Right Hands

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Tone and Intonation

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Tuning the Violin in Fifths

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Repertoire

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Rowley: Melodie

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Minuet #2

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Happy Farmer

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Alla Turca by Ernst Schmidt

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Gossec Gavotte

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Rowley: Pastorale

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Rowley: Minuett

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Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus

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Deeply Grow the Roots

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Olivias Waltz

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I Gave My Love A Cherry

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Hi Ne Ma Tov

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Haydn Theme

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Minuet #3 Bach

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Scales and Etudes

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Scales with Flats: Bb, F, Eb, Ab

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Wohlfahrt Op. 45 no. 1

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Wohlfahrt Op 45. no. 2

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Schradiek for Everyone

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Preliminary Shifting Exercises

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Wohlfahrt op. 45 no. 1 Play Along

1 Wohlfahrt Etude op.45 #1

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Warm up with a C major scale.

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To be ready to play a lot of low 2nd fingers and 4th fingers prepare your left hand by opening it in between the fingers and doing some stretches.

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Be careful when you stretch and reach with the 4th finger. Make sure the hand is not tensing, the thumb is not squeezing and the fingers are not flying up.

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Play a sixth interval by pressing the 1st finger on the D string and the 2nd finger on the A string. Practice it as a double stop. Memorize the feel of your hand and the fingers.

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If you are a beginner player, practice by adding the rests between each note to be able to prepare each finger placement in advance.

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Make sure you are opening and closing the elbow with each stroke and the hair grabs the string each time.

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The Intermediate players should focus on the consistency of tone, cleanliness of bow stroke and keeping correct bow arm mechanics.

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Do not emphasize the down bows. Practice by accentuating the up bows purposefully, then playing them both equal.

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Make sure you do not lock the elbow in the string crossings. Circle in your scores the places with the string crossings and give a mental signal of keeping opening and closing the elbow every time you see a mark.

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Start working on finger motion at the frog in this piece.

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If you are an advanced student, work on using a little bit more bow and faster bow speed on an up bow note that ascends, to create a little spark of tone color change.

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Work on dynamic and phrases shaping.

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Listen for cleanliness and the bottom strings to speak well.

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Bring your greatest awareness of intonation. Listen if the mingling of frequencies in the air around you match.

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