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Modern Violin-playing, 1920
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1other, and all concern the running-technique. It is true that the vibrato (G) is, in a way, an addition to the others; but it is an addition that is clearly dependent on them.
3The whole series, in fact, is interlocked. And it is essential that, when the student takes up his violin to make his first attempt, he should regard the whole series as one action, or perhaps rather as one action having seven interdependent parts, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G.
5Now that the violin is in his hand, the student will doubtless ask what it is exactly that he is supposed to do. The answer to that is that he is to practise the finger-action on the violin-strings, first individually with each finger, and then with the various finger-combinations. But this practice is not to be "fingering" in the ordinary musical sense of the term. It is to be a finger-practice repeated and continued until he is satisfied that its seven features are all working harmoniously. In other words, the finger must be posed on the string, but the mind must be rivetted on the combined action represented in the table A to G. The object is not merely to stop the string, but to achieve a finger-action that complies with all the conditions.
7The easiest, and therefore best, finger to begin with is the third, using the A-string. Take up the violin and make the experiment, which will be, in effect, only a transference of Exercise 10 from the right-hand to the instrument itself. At first, confine yourself to this one finger and this one string, concentrating your attention on the complete action (A to G) which you are endeavouring to carry out.
9Then lay the violin down. Pick it up again, and repeat the experiment, say, a dozen times.
11Then do precisely the same thing with the second finger; then with the fourth; and finally with the first.
13Next, transfer the whole operation to the other strings in turn, going first to the D-string, then to the G-string, and last to the E-string.
15Then pass on to finger-combinations, using the old list which was given on page 28, and adding thereto such combinations as:
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