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String Conditioning:
2011-2013
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Ten Minutes of Exercises
Daily Practice on the Violin, Viola, Cello or Bass
to Build Technique, Key Literacy, and Reading
Building Technique & Endurance
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Repetitive drill (this means many revolutions/repeats)
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Consistent drill (this means every day for ten minutes)
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Creative drill (this means use variety and invention)
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Focused drill (this means no distractions or interruptions)
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The Three T’s Basic Workout
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Tuning (SmartMusic, eTuner, or standalone digital tuner
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Three scales
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Match the “A”
Open String Warm-up
Double Stops Warm-up
Harmonics Warm-up
At least two different Majors and one minor
Three different rhythms
Slurs from two to thirty notes (Are you kidding?)
Slow-Fast or Fast-Slow patterns, Speedy Rhythm or Slur Drill, etc.
Technical Etude or Study
Millions of Scales to Try…
Resources for Written Scales
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Practice Guides (Mr. Fox’s HS Teacher
Pages on the school web site)
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Contest Scales (distributed during
PLAY BALL spring 2012 class lessons/
extra copies back of classroom)
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Pages 44-45 in Essential Elements
Book 2 (purple book – grade 5)
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Essentials for Strings by Anderson
(brown book – grades 6-8)
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Scale Variations
Your imagination should not be wasted!
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Word rhythms
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Noodles
Strawberries
Watermelon (or Peanut Butter
Hippopotamus
Pizza toppings
Ice cream flavors
Names, vacation spots, etc.
Repeated notes (2 to 30 bows
per note)
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Speedy Rhythm Drill
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Slurs (2 to 30 notes per bow)
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Speedy Slur Drill
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Slow-Fast patterns
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2 + 1 and 1 + 2 (triplets)
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3 + 1 and 1 + 3 (sixteenths)
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Hooked bowings (Wicked)
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Intervals
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Scales in Thirds
Do-Re-Mi pattern
Do-Mi-Sol pattern
Do-Re Do-Mi Do-Sol, etc.
Circle of Fifths
How many
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Technical Etudes
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VIOLIN/VIOLA: Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies Book 1 or
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VIOLIN/VIOLA: Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies Book 2
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CELLO: Sebastian Lee or Alwin Schroeder
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STRING BASS Simandl (string bass)
Be sure to vary the bowings
(slur-separate note combinations)
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