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Viola Bible - The Daily Technique Manual

I call it the Viola Bible.... Being southern born, raised in the Bible Belt, I'm used to people carrying around their bibles and doing their daily readings. This is my version for viola- something that is small enough to carry around with you that you do a daily reading from. You can chose your "scriptures" and jump around for the daily applicable "verse." In other words, if that day you need warm up, have been shifting stiffly, and know that you have to play Walton in a couple of weeks, you can jump around through the warm up, the facility excercizes, do some shifting, and end up with the 6ths. You can also use the bible to keep yourself always on the top of the game. The book is both for those who need to establish a basic routine (those in-process students who have yet to set up a regular set of exercizes), and those who have a mastery of technique and who just need to have all of their maintenance routines in one handy book. The following is table from which I chose the exercizes to include in my book. Timings are useful for those that are maintaining, and should be increased (but stricktly adhered to) by those that are not at advanced level.

Focus Exercize Category Exercize Manual/Author Time
LH
 

Warm Up
Open Strings, Long Bows
#1
#2
#3 - From Kievman

Kievman >1' on each
  LH Facility

Sevcik
Schradiek

5'
  In Position LH Facility and Patterns Snyder Finger Pattern warm up
One Position Scales
Ondrecik
5'
 

2nd Position
3rd Position
4th Position

Rode
Rode
Rode
3' each
  Shifting Zippers and Sirens warm up
Yost
Kreutzer
Mazas
Sevcik
Chose One plus warm up, 5'
Daily Bread Scales and Arpeggios Based on Heidi Castleman, Victoria Chiang, Galamian Rhythms
Coming Soon, Snyder Multi Fingerings and Rhythms Scales and Arps
10'
RH
  Bow Contol Division of Bow Warm Up
Speed & Contact Point Exercize
Sevcik Slow Bow Exercize
5'
  Detache
Colle
Martele
Staccato
All Kreutzer, or Martele and Detache practice in scales and Ondrecik 3' Each or Incorporated
  Ricoche
Spiccato
Up Bow Staccato
Incorporated into Scales and One Position Scales, Ondrecik and Sevcik 3' Each
String Crossings Kreutzer 13, 14 with Double Stops, Detache based Frog, Middle, Tip, and Ladder exercizes in #13
Ondrecik String Crossing Slured
5'
Double Stops
String speed, quarter = 60, quarters, 8ths, 16ths, always slurring (not separate) Flesch
Sevcik
Kreutzer
Galamian
Polo (Coming Soon transcribed by Snyder)
15-20'
Total Maximum Commitment if done in entirity: Aprox, 89 Minutes

 

 

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