All Technique articles
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: ‘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
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Technique: achieving balance between the chin and left thumb
Learn to reduce physical stress by distributing instrument weight more effectively across your body. By Matthew Jones, Head of chamber music and professor of viola at the Guildhall School of Music Drama, London; director of Pro Corda Intermediate Course.
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Technique: Sound and phrase
The importance of developing a refined, balanced technique to communicate a nuanced musical line on the double bass
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Technique: Teaching rhythm and bowing to beginners
How to inspire very young musicians to learn new cello playing skills
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Technique: Sautillé
Tips to help you master a bow stroke vital for making a good impression at any orchestral audition
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Technique: Mapping out the fingerboard
Exercises to train your brain and fingers, to help you become a more fluent performer and improviser
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Technique: the importance of practising in 5ths
How the ability to play in perfect 5ths can help you to hone your position, intonation and vibrato
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Technique: Walking bass
Essential foundations for producing a jazz bass-line with good sound, rhythm and harmony
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Technique: chords
How to tackle multi-stopped passages with more confidence, musicality and alacrity with Pavel Berman , professor of violin at the Lugano Conservatoire in Switzerland, and Academy of Perosi in Biella, Italy
