Drill your double stopping with this high-spirited march in G major, a super study full of driving dotted rhythms and energetic eighth notes.
Drill your double stopping with this high-spirited march in G major, a super study full of driving dotted rhythms and energetic eighth notes.
This rambunctious Gopak - a spectacular, high-leaping Ukrainian dance - is from Modest Mussorgsky’s comic opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi, composed between 1874 and 1880.
Yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaw! Get your feet tapping with this romping barn dance, great for practising open string double stops! See how fast you can get the ending!
Try these exercises and you’ll soon be double stopping at the double! Practise getting the bowing arm at just the right level to play two open strings at the same time.
Practise doubling stopping (playing two strings at the same time) with fingers on the upper string - Doubling Up - and fingers on the lower string - Doubling Down.
Practise getting double-stopped octaves in tune to make lovely, shiny pieces of eight! An octave is an absolute miracle of music, but only if it's exactly in tune!
The German pianist and composer, Carl Bohm, really knew how to write a good tune! This is a fine example of a Sarabande — a slow, stately dance with 3 beats in a bar.
This lovely, lilting, flowing, yearning, dancing Medieval/Renaissance Ronde - written by that mysterious composer ‘Anon.’! - is exclusively arranged for two violins.
Yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaw! Get your feet tapping with this romping barn dance, great for practising open string double stops! See how fast you can get the ending!
There’s lots and lots of double stopping in lots and lots of different keys in these exercises … so much so, you’ll probably need to do a few double takes!
Try these exercises and you’ll soon be double stopping at the double! Practise getting the bowing arm at just the right level to play two open strings at the same time.
Practise doubling stopping (playing two strings at the same time) with fingers on the upper string - Doubling Up - and fingers on the lower string - Doubling Down.
Practise getting double-stopped octaves in tune to make lovely, shiny pieces of eight! An octave is an absolute miracle of music, but only if it's exactly in tune!
The German pianist and composer, Carl Bohm, really knew how to write a good tune! This is a fine example of a Sarabande — a slow, stately dance with 3 beats in a bar.
This set of variations for three violins by Aleksey Yanshinov is a real bag of treats … there are loads of different techniques, styles and moods to get stuck into!
