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)

  1. Introduction

  2. My Challenges playing up high

  3. Shifting in Straight Lines

  4. High Excerpt Play Through

  5. Negotiables and Non-Negotiables

  6. Feeling the Arm Move as one unit

  7. Setting the Horizontal Plane of the Instrument - strumming

  8. Setting the Vertical Plane of the Instrument - touch your nose

  9. The Thumb!

  10. More Touch Your Nose

  11. Chinrest/Shoulder Rest Setups

  12. Shuttle Game

  13. Sliding on Harmonics

  14. Weight of the Left Arm

  15. The Tripod

  16. Octave Slides

  17. High Excerpt Part 2

  18. Q&A


Day 2 - Hearing, Mapping, and the Bow

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Chapter Outline

  1. Rule of Thumb

  2. Hear, Feel, Play

  3. Playing 8ve Lower

  4. Bow Variables up High

  5. Moving the Bow Faster and Lighter up High

  6. Vibrato

  7. Backwards Add-a-Note

  8. Mapping My School

  9. Principles for Practicing Mapping

  10. Mapping BETWEEN Positions

  11. One-Step Leaps

  12. Mapping WITHIN a Position

  13. Mapping Across Strings

  14. Ladders and Pattern Pratcice

  15. Shifting Questions

  16. Pivot Shifts

  17. Target Practice

  18. String Gym 3.0 Details