Technique Tutorial – Warm Up Exercises & Tips for Practicing
In this lesson, Megan Lynch Chowning discusses her method for warming up on the fiddle and provides several practice exercises to help develop your fiddling skills. We hope you enjoy this excerpt of the course.
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….and I really don’t need to be any stupider! LOL, Megan you crack me up!
This is what I’m here for. ; )
Hi Megan
I enjoyed your warm up tips video. You are right about the importance of breathing, I gave that problem. I would add tuningbyour fiddle first. And then finding the ringing notes on the fiddle with your third finger. Finding A on the E string, D on the A string, G on the the D string and A on the G string. Next find G on the E string, B on the A string E on the D string and B on the G string. Once you locate and hear those ringing tones, play them quickly. This I will loosen your fingers and sharpen your ear. Then you add the remaining notes for whatever scale you are going to practise.
While you are doing the full bow exercises, I would be adding scales to those full bow strokes and at different rhythms.
I spend about half an hour warming up everyday before I practise. You start slowly and gradually build up to speed, just like an athlete.
Ed
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Oh yes, those are excellent additions! Warming up is crucial. I used to think I only needed it if I was going to run a mile, but then I remembered I don’t run a mile.
This is the best warm up for ‘fiddle-centric’ wanna-bes like my adult beginner self… i am still a little lost on the triplets going backwards, but i’ll keep studying this… i have significant arthritis in my left pinky, so this doesn’t help…. sigh! thanks for the comic relief and substantive help!!!
I really love that triplet exercise! I’m going to add that to my daily scale routine. I did it with a metronome, and a drone track from youtube! Really great exercise.