The Song of Veslemøy, from Halvorsen’s Suite Mosaique, is a gorgeous folk song. It’s yearning, heart-warming tune will keep you warm on a chilly Norwegian evening!
The Song of Veslemøy, from Halvorsen’s Suite Mosaique, is a gorgeous folk song. It’s yearning, heart-warming tune will keep you warm on a chilly Norwegian evening!
These two-finger scale exercise are fantastically useful for improving shifting and intonation and a great way to warm-up at the start of a practice session.
Join the band of brave elves as they venture on an adventure to uncharted pastures! Watch out for the tremolo trolls, shifting serpents and staccato sea monsters!
The melody of this sorrowful piano prelude by Armenian composer and musicologist, Gayane Chebotaryan, yearns and wails, ebbs and flows, grows and wilts. Intense stuff!
Anton Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer, conductor and educator (Tchaikovsky’s teacher!). He is best known for this delicious little sweetmeat, Melody in F.
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 fabulous fantasia by Leo Portnoff features passionate melodies, a rip-roaring Russian dance, and plenty of different patterns and techniques for the bowing arm.
This sunny, chirpy melody by Charles Auguste de Bériot is great for practising 3rd position. That’s probably why it’s in the 3rd position bit of his Méthode de Violon!
Bénoni Lagye’s Danse Espagnole captures the spirit of Spain with its vibrant, insistent rhythm patterns. Use energetic, incisive bowing to really make the piece dance!
Wheeee! Let's go up and down between 1st and 3rd position on your 1st and 3rd fingers!
Land on a different finger every time, as you shift to and from 3rd position!
Shift up to 3rd position on your 1st finger, then land your 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers on solid ground!
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Make sure there’s nothing makeshift about the way you make shifts! Glide smoothly between 1st and 3rd position on each string, landing perfectly in tune every time!
The tide rises ever so slowly as you move up and up the chromatic scale to 3rd position on each string. Remember, a rising tide lifts all notes!!
Dvořák wrote his set of Humoresques in the summer of 1894 when he must have been in a pretty good mood! The 7th one is probably the best known and probably the best!
