} Facility

Introduction to Facility

Fast passagework, such as we find in the Rigaudon of Kreisler’s Sicilienne…

Play all 4 finger patterns in a row so that you have…

Regular practice of finger patterns in quarter tempo, half tempo and tempo…

“Before practising your mixed rhythms, make sure your left hand is comfortable.…

“Practise your mixed bowings. Try two notes slurred then two notes separate.…

Playing the same finger pattern in different combinations is a good warm-up…

Practise with fast détaché or sautillé to help develop a clean left-hand…

Justine plays an excerpt from this study by Hans Sitt using a…

Holding fingers down is good for developing an understanding of finger patterns…

Lifting fingers instead of holding them down can give very clear articulation…

String crossing in descending slurred passages is vulnerable to unevenness. There are…

When playing slurred passages, (especially descending as in the opening of Beethoven’s…