To warm up the left hand practise elements of the basic skills needed for your current repertoire (likely to include finger action, shifting, finger independence as well as scale and double-stop routines).
Here the lizard tongue exercise focuses our attention not only on the basic fingerfall action but also warms up our ears so that we demand optimal clarity of the articulation of each finger.
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Scores - Lizard Tongue - violin & viola
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