All Technique articles – Page 2
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Left-hand lightness for cellists
Richard Tunnicliffe on how to develop healthy and sustainable habits in the left hand
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: how to use the Feldenkrais method in your viola playing
Caroline Henbest looks at viola technique through the lens of Feldenkrais
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Itzhak Rashkovsky on Sostenuto
The violinist shares his thoughts on sostenuto and how to sing on the violin
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Gut strings on double bass
Bassist Rob Nairn on getting to grips with gut strings on the double bass for historical performance
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Octaves for cellists
Cellist Seth Parker Woods on overcoming the fear and finding joy in octave practice
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Finding your voice on the viola
Susie Mészáros’s thoughts on shifting and articulation
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: how to play chords
How to tackle multi-stopped passages with more confidence, musicality and alacrity with Pavel Berman
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Scale and arpeggio practice
Violinist Andrea Gajic gives hints and tips on practising scales and arpeggios
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Jazz, Indian and Middle Eastern music techniques
Double bassist Daphna Sadeh-Neu on teaching techniques for jazz, Indian and Middle Eastern music
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Sound travel and projection with cellist Herre-Jan Stegenga
Cellist Herre-Jan Stegenga on filling the hall and ideas and exercises for teaching projection
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Developing powerful base knuckles
Stephen Upshaw on developing powerful base knuckles in both hands for tension-free playing
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Cello warm-ups - the bow arm
Cellist Mats Lidström discusses how to prepare the whole body for efficient, time-saving repertoire practice
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Teaching collé
Marcos Santos, teacher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, on how to work on this short, articulated bow stroke to improve students’ overall bow control and sound
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Memory and mental practice from violinist William Herzog
Techniques to help you learn music off by heart and protect against memory slips. From December 2020
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Begin with some finger push-ups’ - Technique: Left-hand finger independence
How to build strength and flexibility for a truly agile left hand with Adriana LaRosa Ransom, professor of cello and string project director at Illinois State University, US
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FocusTechnique: 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. From February 2019
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Free and ringing, never forced’ - Technique: Developing bow control for improved tone
Violist Martin Outram on mix of exercises to help you draw out sound actively and attentively with the right hand
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Creating sound from the imagination
Iagoba Fanlo, professor of cello at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and Alfonso X El Sabio University in Spain, on daily practice tools to help you realise your inner musical vision on your instrument
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Premium ❘ Feature‘We should always listen carefully to the quality of our tone’ - Technique: Working on open strings
Cellist Denis Severin provides exercises to help you build up a strong, reliable right hand, with a consistently beautiful sound
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Smooth string-crossings
David Gillham, associate professor of violin at the University of British Colombia and string tutor at Domaine Forget, Quebec, Canada, on how to anticipate and execute string-crossings with maximum fluidity and control
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