10. 1. Weight Transfer - Flying Pizzicato
• Establish balanced posture
• Strum strings in large circle
• Feel weight shift in contrary (bi-lateral) motion
11. 2. Bi-lateral Bowing Exercises
• Play down bow and retake
• Similar motion to flying pizzicato
• Feel torso moving in opposite direction from bow arm
16. 1. The Shuttle
• Great for cello and bass
• Strum strings with left hand fingers
• Low, middle, and high positions
• Makes sure instrument is set
• Good for left arm positioning
17. 2. “Birdie” Shifts
• Curved path of arm between destination notes
• Use elbow to guide shifting motion
18. 3. Flying Pizzicato
• Moving the whole body
• Making an oval with right hand
• Center your body, lean to right, pluck all strings and lean to left
• Then pluck just one string
• Make “bass lines” to familiar tunes
19. 4. Tapping
• Good for lower and upper strings
• “Raindrops” on ribs with both hands
• Free lefty hand tapping on strings
• “Make popcorn”
• Useful for teaching slurs
20. 5. Rock & Roll
• Hook bow at tip with left hand
• “Rock” - shake the bow hand
• “Roll” - raise/lower bow arm
21. 6. Rebound
• Like flying pizzicato, only with the bow
• Set, release, rebound
• Short rebounds at frog
• Combine down and up bow in small groups
22. 7. Statue of Liberty
• Upper strings only
• Left hand holds upper bout
• Raise up
• Turn upside down
• Güido in place on top of shoulder
23. 8. Place and Lift
• Place bow at frog
• Place bow at tip
• Experiment with angles tho learn what straight bow looks like
24. 9. Vibrato
• Polishing the string
• Similarities and differences in upper and lower string vibrato
• Rotary motion in vibrato
25. 10. Pulling and Pushing
• Pretend left index finger is bow
• Simulate the feeling of pulling for down bow and pushing for up bow
26. 11. Bow Finger Flexibility
• With bow in hand, raise above head
• Raise/lower bow using wrist, keeping it pointed straight up
• ‘Write your name” with screw of bow
27. 12. Case Walk
• Upper strings only
• Walk around with holding case in front of you or overhead
• Immediately go to instrument and play
• Notice the feeling of lightness and freedom
28. 13. Early Bow Hold
• Good for students having trouble with bow hold
• Don’t spend too much time in this zone
• Games for teaching bow hold concepts
29. Principles of String Movement
• Pizzicato principle
• Energy: from strings to instrument
• Allow physics of instrument