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String Conditioning:

Ten Minutes of Exercises

Daily Practice on the Violin, Viola, Cello or Bass to Build Technique, Key Literacy, and Reading

2011-2013

+Building Technique & Endurance

! Repetitive drill (this means many revolutions/repeats) ! Consistent drill (this means every day for ten minutes) ! Creative drill (this means use variety and invention) ! Focused drill (this means no distractions or interruptions)

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+The Three T’s Basic Workout

! Tuning (SmartMusic, eTuner, or standalone digital tuner

! Match the “A” ! Open String Warm-up ! Double Stops Warm-up ! Harmonics Warm-up

! Three scales

! 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

! Practice Guides (Mr. Fox’s HS Teacher

Pages on the school web site)

! Contest Scales (distributed during

PLAY BALL spring 2012 class lessons/ extra copies back of classroom)

! Pages 44-45 in Essential Elements

Book 2 (purple book – grade 5)

! Essentials for Strings by Anderson

(brown book – grades 6-8)

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+Scale Variations

! Word rhythms

! Noodles ! Strawberries ! Watermelon (or Peanut Butter ! Hippopotamus ! Pizza toppings ! Ice cream flavors ! Names, vacation spots, etc.

! Repeated notes (2 to 30 bows

per note)

! Speedy Rhythm Drill ! Slurs (2 to 30 notes per bow) ! Speedy Slur Drill ! Slow-Fast patterns ! 2 + 1 and 1 + 2 (triplets) ! 3 + 1 and 1 + 3 (sixteenths) ! Hooked bowings (Wicked) ! Intervals

! Scales in Thirds ! Do-Re-Mi pattern ! Do-Mi-Sol pattern ! Do-Re Do-Mi Do-Sol, etc.

Your imagination should not be wasted!

+Circle of Fifths

How many

• f these can

you play?

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+Technical Etudes

! VIOLIN/VIOLA: Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies Book 1 or ! VIOLIN/VIOLA: Wohlfahrt Foundation Studies Book 2 ! CELLO: Sebastian Lee or Alwin Schroeder ! STRING BASS Simandl (string bass)

Be sure to vary the bowings (slur-separate note combinations)