} Violin Bow Technique

Common Challenges in Ricochet

1. You would like the bow to bounce more times within each…

This excerpt is from Kreutzer’s “Study No.2”. SEE

The lower-half bowstroke is primarily an upper-arm movement. Feel the upper arm…

The fingers flex slightly at the change of bow. Notice that the…

Let’s look at some Mozart sonatas. Take for instance the little Bb…

Perhaps it is a gigue. The gigue has a distinctive musical character,…

Perhaps the new piece is a Sicilienne. What is a Sicilienne? The…

With a new piece, we need to work out our musical shape…

To play with musical intent, we need to look at the music…

For Lane 5 over the fingerboard we use a lot of bow…

When thinking about point of contact, give a number to the lanes…

Practice releasing the first finger by tapping it on the bow while…

‘Bowing out’ the subdivisions can be helpful to improve rhythm for both…

Lower sounding strings are thicker and we need to adjust our point…

Moving through the bow and stopping at various points is a good…

The rhythmic finger-fall in the left hand is important and affects our…

Different players find different solutions to how best to play up-bow staccato.…

When we repeat any bow stroke going in the same direction we…

Insert a practice break before the string crossing, and maintain your bow…

As we can see from ‘Find the balance point’ the lower third…

It is good to focus on each variable in turn. Planning bow…

Here is the bowhold at the point of the bow, notice the…

Here is the bowhold at the heel of the bow, notice the…

Jennen’s bow is in the square position.