Friday, September 5, 2008

90 minute session

Long Bows (warmup - about 3 minutes)
Focus: Bowgrip, tone & sound quality, feeling the balance / weight change as bow goes from tip to middle to frog and back

Primrose (F maj, ii pos, about 10 minutes)
-Scale on all strings (4-finger patterns)
-Patterns 1 & 2 on all strings
Focus: "ratchet" movement of LH / arm between strings, relaxing thumb and LH, removing tension from LH esp on lower strings

Sevcik Bow Technique (about 15 minutes)
-reviewed eighth note bowing practice (stopping & starting)
-added half note / half rest patterns, LH of bow
Focus: consistent tone during sustained notes, no bouncing / chattering / pulsing on sustained notes, feeling beginning and end of each note, maintaining bow plane on double stops.

Gazda 3 (fingering, meta-phrasing, about 40 minutes)

Bach B-minor Allamande (readthrough, about 30 minutes)

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