All technique articles – Page 2

Focus

'Teachers should adapt their methods to students' individual techniques,' says cellist Sol Gabetta

2016-07-27T00:00:00Z

The Strad's August 2016 cover star on the importance of being adaptable as a teacher

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The importance of lateral movement in the left hand for string players

2016-05-26T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly little has been said in the literature about the sideways left-hand movement, although any passage over more than one string uses it. Rok Klopčič researches

Focus

How t'ai chi can help cellists

2016-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ross Harbaugh talks through some exercises designed to develop balance and technique

Debate

Technique - a dangerous concept for musicians

2015-07-02T00:00:00Z

Musicians should never prioritise intellect over feeling and physicality, wrote Herbert Whone in The Strad's 1982 issue

Focus

Szigeti as teacher: Frances Kramer

2012-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the October 2013 issue, violinist Arnold Steinhardt recalls how he spent the summer of 1962 studying with Joseph Szigeti at his home in Switzerland. Just three years after Steinhardt's year with the great musician (pictured), violinist Frances Kramer wrote this account, published in the November 1965 edition, ...