Fischer Violin Basics Pdf

[Leda Billock]

May27, 2005 at 05:29 AM Most people would suggest a bent pinkie. I've looked through that book, and it's a decent single source for information but you shouldn't take it too literally, especially the bow hold part. My suggestion, if you aren't having a problem don't change anything. Oliver had some good things to say on bow holds in another thread recently.

Basics is an excellent book. As a violinist, you can use some of the exercises to target and work on specific Basics. As a professional, doing it on your own. As a student, I would probably recommend working on things with the supervision of your teacher. Though some things in Basics are new, much is simply a compendium of many traditional and well-known exercises.

What I've found useful is just to add basics to my daily technical work - there's seven sections, that's one a day! it's an easy way to get through everything and give you a wide brush to keep skills up. And, if there's something special that you need to work on from that book, you then have that time to do it. I'd usually spend 10-15 mins a day just working through a couple of excercises. somedays just one, others 2 or 3

February 8, 2008 at 10:28 PM How do you make sure you are doing the exercises correctly? The instructions for each exercise are written is such an overly anatomical and obtuse style that I am usually so spent just from trying to understand what to do that I lose interest before doing the exercise?

February 11, 2008 at 12:17 PM I like to learn anything by reading books and was baffled for a long time by the lack of a book that explained how to play the violin. They all seemed to be written in code for people who already know. For instance Menuhin says "perfect intonation is of course essential" while devoting several chapters to yoga exercises. So I was thrilled to find Basics and Practice. I think of these exercises as the switches to little light bulbs in my head - "So that's what it's supposed to feel like!". The exercises that teach by exaggeration (of the right, and sometimes the wrong, technique) are models of good, clear pedagogy. Gems everywhere. For instance I am working on scales in thirds and there is a practice technique for this. Superb use of excerpts from the repertoire, which let you feel like a real violinist while practising. Index, cross-references and sidebars illuminate relationships between exercises and show how thoughtfully it has all been put together and edited. Yes, I like it.

of course, if you took the trouble to study Basics in depth then you would be able to practice thirds with much greater undertsanding of how they fit into the overall scheme of technique and muscianship. A much greater degre eof overlal skill inlcuding in thirds is the result.

Incidentally, the advice to practice a lot of thirds at onme time is not necessraily good. They can promote a rather moribund left hand if not mixed with lighter an dmore rapid work. One simple solution to this problem is to pracitc ethem not only in the regualr fashion but also trilling so thta the lower fingers are raised while the upper are lowered and vice versa.

I think Simon was just trying not to be too dogmatic since, as Adrain said, you cannot set down rules that work 100 percent of the time for 100 percent of every shape of hand etc. But basicallythe little finger has both a vertical and later function . Also note thta y default very few people use a flat bow hair when approaching the heel. It messes up the wrist position.

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