Concept and Study for the Violinist Book

Product Number: 20694
ISBN: 0786673451
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Multiple Levels
Format: Book

Whatever your skill level, if you are devoted to the noble art of playing the violin, this course is sure to enhance your technique. The Lobko Method will increase your understanding of playing throughout the fingerboard in the most rational and comfortable way, facilitating the discovery of technical solutions even while sight reading. The method’s progressive approach, brief yet comprehensive, will enable you to examine and revise the very way you handle a violin and bow. The roots of great success or unexplainable failure often lie in simple technical errors that have become habits. To help you correct these habits, brilliant technical concepts gleaned from various books by the best violin teachers of the past are brought together here in simple, easy to follow formulas.

CONTENTS

About the Author
Preface
Desired Proficiencies
Introduction
Chapter One: Choosing a Violin
Chapter Two: Left-Hand Technique
Chapter Three: Placement of the Fingertips and the Shape of the Fingers
Chapter Four: The Repertoire
Chapter Five: Bowing

PART I

Preparatory Chromatic Moves - Frame I
Two-Octave Frame from First Finger (Exercise)
Preliminary Exercises in Two-Octave Frames in Diatonic Transposition (Frame 1)
Frame I for Arpeggios
Arpeggios in Frame I
Etudes in Transposition (Frame I)

PART II

Preparatory Chromatic Exercises for the Second Finger Frame
Two-Octave Frame from Second Finger (Exercise)
Preliminary Exercises for Two-Octave Scales in Frame 2
Major Scales in Two-Octave Frames in Diatonic Transposition (Frame 2)
Frame 2 for Arpeggios
Arpeggios in Frame 2
Etudes in Transposition (Frame 2)

PART III

Three-Octave Scales and Arpeggios in Transposition (Frame 1)
Three-Octave Scales and Arpeggios in Transposition (Frame 2)