Key Points:

 

• Remember you are learning a STANDARD pattern for your left hand.

• Pieces 28 & 29 now focus on applying the finger pattern you learned the D string now to the G string.

• Sometimes students go a little flat on the G string (move them ever so slightly towards you).

• As usual, to start do a bowhold check,  do a whole bow warm up, play fingers 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0 on the D string and check your tuning. You might do this on the G string too.

Remember:

• To get going pluck through each piece once or twice.

• Then try with the bow the Student's Track until you feel confident to move on to the duets.

• Go from plucking to bowing and back to plucking until you are confidently bowing each piece.

• Don't be in any rush to 'get it right straight away' - being patient will pay off in the long run.

• Go over previous videos if you think something's not right.

• Most 'horrible' sounds occur because of a tense right hand causing the bow to 'tremble,' 'bounce' or be 'scratchy'.