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The Essentials
Posture
Tension (1:54)
Breathing (1:30)
Checklists (Building Good Habits)
Automaticity
Building & Using Checklists (1:56)
Full Body Checklist (2:27)
Left Arm / Holding the Violin
Picking Up the Violin (3:26)
Bringing the Violin to You (2:29)
The Position of the Violin (2:49)
Twisting and Turning (2:12)
Long Arms vs Short Arms
Left Hand Tension
Left Arm/Hand Checklist
Counterpressure
Exercise: Don't Squash the Grape
Plucking (Pizzicato) on Open Strings (0:54)
Your First Piece (1:27)
Notes, Rests and Your Second Piece (2:40)
Sheet Music: The Big Match
Sheet Music: Three Pizz Suite
Right Arm / Holding the Bow
Bowholds Are Subjective
How to Make a Sound (1:05)
Balancing the Bow (0:44)
The See-Saw (1:29)
The Function of the Fingers (7:13)
Flexibility (0:29)
Exercise: Flop the Hand onto the Bow (1:11)
Right Arm / Hand Checklist
First Strokes
Bowing (Arco) on Open Strings
Exercise: Circles (6:40)
Using the Whole Bow (Triangle, Square, Point)
Exercise: Long Slow Bows (3:33)
Straight Bows
Simple Bowing Patterns on Open Strings
Simple Melodies on Open Strings
Basic String Crossings
How to play string crossings
Exercise: Cross All Four Strings
Exercise: Play, Stop & Move
Sheet Music: String Crossing Exercise Book
Sheet Music: The Grasshopper (3:59)
Sheet Music: A Clean Sweep (5:29)
Basics of Sound Production
Speed, Weight, Point of Contact
Bow 'Tilt'
Exercise: Try each movement
Exercise: Analyse Someone Else's Video
Exercise: Choose a word, create a sound
Exercise: Flop the Hand onto the Bow
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