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A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
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7A slight change in the order of the nine trill studies can be recommended, as pupils find it somewhat monotonous and tiring to learn so many shake exercises one after another. The Author's plan is to take, alternately with every trill study (say from No. 17 upwards), another study, beginning with that of the octaves, and on account of its great difficulty study No. 1 ought to be taken just before No. 23. In recommending the previous changes, the reader must not be misled into thinking that the Author approves of similarly altering the succession of other studies. In all cases the teacher should use his discretion, but if he once starts a pupil with a book of exercises he ought to go through them from beginning to end. Either the 24 Etudes Classiques, Op. 21, by Léonard, the 36 Etudes by Fiorillo or Rode's famous and wonderful Caprices may follow the Kreutzer studies — the first two works are considered easier than the latter.
9Rovelli's 12 Caprices ought to be known to every violinist and the 7 Divertimenti by Campagnoli will enable the pupil to become well acquainted with the first seven positions,
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