Mel Bay

Author: John Bauer
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin
Level: Multiple Levels

Thoughtful and pragmatic fingering is essential to achieving a high degree of musicianship on any string instrument. Violin Fingering: Basic to Advanced is a primer for conventional fingering practice as well as for modern concepts. With more than half of its 82 musical examples taken from elementary and intermediate technical levels, the book's basic ideas are readily accessible to the student violinist, while the advanced examples would challenge any violinist.

"...there are so many brilliant ideas contained within..." - David Kim, Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra

Contents:

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Rudimentary Review of First Position
• Open Strings
• Chromatic Fingering
• Enharmonic Fingering
• Extensions
• Contractions
• Sequential Fingerings
• Retention, Anchor, and Bloc Fingerings
• Thirds
• Sixth
• Octaves, Tenths, Sevenths, and Mixed Intervals
• Tactile Intervals
• Scales and Arpeggios
• Equality of Fingers?
• Index of Examples and References