All Technique articles
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Left-hand calisthenics
Quick warm-ups to help you improve strength, endurance, flexibilty and control
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Technique: Early music articulation for modern instrumentalists
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Technique: Cello warm-ups - the left-hand
Exercises and advice to help string players develop a left hand that is strong, balanced and agile
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Technique: Cello warm-ups - the bow arm
How to prepare the whole body for efficient, time-saving repertoire practice
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Technique: Melodic string-crossings
How to play controlled, smooth and seamless melodic lines
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Technique: Ricochet
How to produce clear and controlled bounced bowings on the violin
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Technique: Memory and mental practice
Techniques to help you learn music off by heart and protect against memory slips
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Technique: Playing with expression
Ideas to help you experiment, and to find new sounds and means of expression on your instrument
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Technique: Artificial harmonics
How to use this less-common technique to improve harmonics, hand frame, intonation and bow control
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Technique: ‘Speedrunning’
How to use a competitive video gaming approach to plan out your practice, maximise your technical efficiency and play consistently accurately on stage
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Technique: Using Ševčík to tackle flying staccato on the cello
How analytical, targeted practice can help you to overcome any problem in the repertoire
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Technique: Swing bowing
How to inject new rhythmic fluency and flexibility into your playing by working on jazz
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Technique: Scales for violists
A system specifically for the viola, which has not been adapted from violin alternatives
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Technique: Legato and Lyricism
Ideas to help you grow your sound and articulate every note within each bow
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Technique: Training Musicality
Exercises and advice to help build musical awareness and understanding
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Technique: A scientific approach to violin resonance
How a basic knowledge of acoustical physics can help us to produce a richer, more ringing tone
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Technique: A 30-minute routine to keep your playing on top form
Ideas to help violinists and violists maintain high technical and musical standards around a busy regime
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Technique: strum bowing
A guitar technique adapted for violin, to help bowed string players plug into their inner groove. By Tracy Silverman, electric violinist, author of The Strum Bowing Method , string faculty member at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and jazz clinic and workshop tutor worldwide
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Technique: double bassist Alex Henery gives tips on controlling left-hand finger pressure
How to place down, lift and move your fingers in a way that minimises fatigue, by Alex Henery, Principal double bassist of the Sydney Symphony and head of double bass studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
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Double bassist Christine Hoock on sound and phrase
The professor of double bass at Mozarteum University Salzburg and president of the International Sperger Society for Double Bass shares her wisdom in this month’s Technique article
