Comfort in the Stratosphere: Event Recordings
Day 1 - Free Motion in Shifting
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Chapter Outline (on the video player, click on the button with three dots to skip to specific chapters)
Introduction
My Challenges playing up high
Shifting in Straight Lines
High Excerpt Play Through
Negotiables and Non-Negotiables
Feeling the Arm Move as one unit
Setting the Horizontal Plane of the Instrument - strumming
Setting the Vertical Plane of the Instrument - touch your nose
The Thumb!
More Touch Your Nose
Chinrest/Shoulder Rest Setups
Shuttle Game
Sliding on Harmonics
Weight of the Left Arm
The Tripod
Octave Slides
High Excerpt Part 2
Q&A
Day 2 - Hearing, Mapping, and the Bow
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Chapter Outline
Rule of Thumb
Hear, Feel, Play
Playing 8ve Lower
Bow Variables up High
Moving the Bow Faster and Lighter up High
Vibrato
Backwards Add-a-Note
Mapping My School
Principles for Practicing Mapping
Mapping BETWEEN Positions
One-Step Leaps
Mapping WITHIN a Position
Mapping Across Strings
Ladders and Pattern Pratcice
Shifting Questions
Pivot Shifts
Target Practice
String Gym 3.0 Details