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Susanna Klein
PRACTICE MAVEN

Practice Blitz

YouTube Channel for String Players

Many Ways to Practice 1 Skill

Vibrato

Vibrato

2) Slides 0m 59s

3) Bounce the Ball 0m 47s

4) Tissue Vibrato 1m 22s

5) Jimmy Hendrix 0m 47s

6) Vibrato Shifts 0m 49m

7) Size & Speed Tricks 3m 32s

8) Alternate String 1m 11s

9) Zingers 1m 14s

10) 4 Fingers 1 Vib 1m 41s

11) Octave Leaps 1m29s

12) Vibrato Scales 3min

Double Stops

10 Ways to Practice Double Stops

Playing

Fast

1) Intro & Outline Practice 4m 18s

2) Left Hand Pops 2m 48s

3) Open Strings 2m 59s

4) One String Snippets 3m 55s

5) One string patterns 2m 57s

6) Change of articulation 3m 2s

7) Doubles & Triples 2m 17s

8) Fairy Fingers 2m 19s

9) Add a note backwards 1m 43s

10) Expanding Snippets 0m 59s

11) Fingers up or down? 2 m 58s

12) Wrong accents 2m 21s

13) Transitions only 3m 31s

SHIFTING

1) Shifting Fingers 13m 14s

2) Framing Fingers 3m 41s

3) Bullseye Practice 3m 4s

4) Road Less Travelled 5m 49s

5) Connect the dots 1m 44s

6) Shift + 1m 31s

7) Non-shift finger pattern 2m 46s

8) Bow Power 5m 38s

INTONATION

1) Seven Creative Ways to Work on Intonation 2m 45s

Harmonics

1) Half String Harmonics 2m 23s

2) Shifting into Harmonics 1m 17s

3) Harmonics with 3rd Finger 2min

SETUP

Double check

Violin Posture Check 1m.53s

Best Left Hand Set Up 4m 3s

Best right hand set up & bow changes 4m 58s

Bow

Straightening

10 Ways to Straighten the Bow without a Mirror 6m 51s

BOW

Distribution

1) Distribution Warm-Up 2m 23s

2) Extreme Saving 2m 30s

3) Butterfly Scale 1m 56s

4) Chop it up 3m 37s

5) Drawing the Map 1m 59s

6) Body Motion 2m 28s

7) Anticipate the Speed 2m 26s

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