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Essential Violin Exercises Guide

This document provides exercises for violinists to work on various technical skills, including: 1. Bow exercises focusing on maintaining proper shoulder, arm, and hand positioning. 2. Bow changes and practicing fingering positions across different strings and positions. 3. Double stop exercises to improve intonation and tone quality when playing two notes simultaneously. 4. Scales, arpeggios, and variations with different rhythms, bowings, and accents to develop advanced technical skills.

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Essential Violin Exercises Guide

This document provides exercises for violinists to work on various technical skills, including: 1. Bow exercises focusing on maintaining proper shoulder, arm, and hand positioning. 2. Bow changes and practicing fingering positions across different strings and positions. 3. Double stop exercises to improve intonation and tone quality when playing two notes simultaneously. 4. Scales, arpeggios, and variations with different rhythms, bowings, and accents to develop advanced technical skills.

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  • Basic Exercises
  • Bow Changes
  • Double Stops
  • Scales
  • Variations
  • Variations Galamian
  • Arpeggios
  • Scales in Double Stops
  • Finger Stretching
  • Shifting
  • Vegh's Snake
  • Across the Strings
  • Links

Basic Exercises I Open strings

at each fermata check shoulder relaxed upper arm on same level as bow

fingers at correct positions on the bow bow angle sounding point didn't change

Ivry Gitlis' very only daily exercise

II Bow changes

III

keep left fingers on the string as long as possible practice on strings I-IV, positions I-V, A flat E, also in staccato on one bow

IV

Double Stops ! check sound quality of each note ! A

also with D and A string all keys

all positions all strings all finger kombinations 1 23 4 12 34 1 2 34 1 2 3 4 also with fifth sixth, fourth - fifth

Scales
fingerings

Variations
practice Basic II and Basic IV first und ich wiederhole einmal mehr: ob beim Einben, beim Abgeigen der Musikleitern oder Concertieren, man hat allzeyt stark und mannhaft zu spielen Leopold Mozart

Variations Galamian
all variations legato, detache and staccato (one bow)

advanced scale players can mix rythms, bowings and accents ad infinitum

Arpeggios
fingerings

1st steps

then play all 7 arpeggios in legato 3 notes in slow tempo legato (9, 18, 36 notes) in medium and quick tempo in slow martel and quicker detach on middle and top of bow

Scales in double stops


for thirds, fifths, sixth, octaves

Thirds special A
Devil's trill

all finger kombinations 1 23 4 12 34 1 2 34 1 2 3 4

B
Rostal's monster

1. 2. 3.

on one string pair (C-G, G-D, D-A) on two string pairs (I.-III. Pos., II-IV pos.) same as 2., but keep thumb fixed in 2nd (3rd) position

Finger stretching
preparation for decimes, 1-3 octaves and 3-4 thirds

! relax after each streching !


Dvorak, Quintett op.77

Try theese devil's trills

appearing in Martinu, Three Madrigals for vl. and vla.

Shifting
from lower finger to a higher change to target finger, then shift from higher finger to a lower shift with actual finger into target position, then change finger

Keep same distances between fingers


wrong (1/1 step step) right ( step - step) right (1/1 step 1/1 step)

how to practice

Sevcic op.8
how to practice
Nr.8

Vegh's snake

Across the strings warm up


also with double stops

3-tone

4-tone and 8-tone


start with open strings and double stops

Links
[Link]/moz this document and important studies and caprices
[Link] American violin technique, hints, videos and animation [Link] download music for any purpose

Basic Exercises I Open strings at each fermata check  shoulder relaxed  upper arm on same level as bow  fingers at correct
II Bow changes III keep left fingers on the string as long as possible practice on strings I-IV, positions I-V, A flat – E,
Double Stops ! check sound quality of each note ! A also with D and A string all keys B all positions all strings all finger
Scales fingerings
Variations practice Basic II and Basic IV first „und ich wiederhole einmal mehr: ob beim Einüben, beim Abgeigen der Musikleit
Variations Galamian all variations legato, detache and staccato (one bow) advanced scale players can mix rythms, bowings and
Arpeggios fingerings
1st steps then play all 7 arpeggios in legato 3 notes in slow tempo legato (9, 18, 36 notes) in medium and quick tempo in slo
Scales in double stops for thirds, fifths, sixth, octaves Thirds special A Devil's trill all finger kombinations 1 23 4 12
Finger stretching preparation for decimes, 1-3 octaves and 3-4 thirds ! relax after each streching ! Dvorak, Quintett op.77 T

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