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Bow Exercises

Center your bow hold | Develop essential finger and wrist motions | Prepare for bow strokes.

Rabbits 
PERFECT your bow hold

  • Solidify your bow hold

  • Encourage flexibility

  • Establish a center for your bow hold

Tick tocks
UNLOCK your bow hand 

  • Develop flexible fingers

  • Unlock finger string crossings

Pinky push-ups 
FLEXIBLE bow hand 

  • Develop flexible fingers

  • Unlock finger string crossings

Bridge Arpeggio
FINGER string crossings

  • Fully unlock finger string crossings

  • Develop flexible fingers particularly the pinky

Silent Arpeggio
HAND string crossings

  • Fully unlock hand string crossings

  • The most used string crossing strategy

  • Develops mobility in the hand and wrist

Collé motion
FLEXIBLE fingers

  • Develops flexible fingers along the angle of the bow

  • Pull the string side to side using only our fingers

  • VERY useful for a lot of bow strokes

Up and down bow staccato
Clear articulation

  • Collé applied to the string

  • Clear articulation everywhere in the bow while maintaining a loose hand

Ring the Bell
Power at the tip

  • Use this in almost every lesson

  • Establishes correct bow angles

  • Warms up powerful sound

  • Opens the arm

  • If you project with these, you'll project through the rest of your practice.

Bow exercises follow-along
Get into a flow with me

  • Practice every bow exercise here with me in real time.

  • Includes key things to think about

  • How my students start off their practice.

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