Today’s Warmup (17 minutes):
- Tuning
- Quarrington Ex. 1 – Find the Weight (mm. 60)
- Quarrington Ex 2 – String Crossings (mm. 51)
- Long slow A Major (Quarrington fingering D)
- Billè Etude No. 1
I saw a great “KT’s Minute Tips” from @katiethiroux on Instagram about speedwork. Her approach was to take your regular scales (2-octave) and start by finding your maximum fast tempo. The idea was to set your metronome to your fastest bpm divided by 4, so if you were working at 320bpm, you’d get the metronome at 80.
Her exercise starts by doing a bar of quarter notes up and down, then moving to a bar of 8th notes up and down, triplet 8ths, sixteenths. Once that’s done, then two beats of quarters, 8ths, triplets, 16ths, etc.
Focus here is on tone and control, especially through the shifting.
Generally I find scales to be very meditative in nature, both from the timing and the intonation perspectives, and Katie was very generous in sharing her scale routine PDF! I ran through this for about 15 minutes, just working the scale patterns up and down. I’m getting tripped up on string crossings (major seconds – it’s a fifths-tuning thing), but slow work is work, and I’ll get there. Already looking forward to tomorrow’s sesh!
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