by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Jun 12, 2019 | Bowing Technique |
Improve your sound quality and violin bow technique with the two short and simple exercises for smooth bow changes in this video: Do you have difficulty making silent bow changes? I’ll unveil the secret in this video! Helmholtz motion When you’re bowing...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | May 15, 2019 | Bowing Technique |
With the quarter bow exercise, you train the different functions of your fingers in your bow technique and gain control over the whole bow: Get control the whole bow In this episode, I’m going to teach you how to get control of the whole bow and get rid of your...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Apr 24, 2019 | Bowing Technique |
The Thibaud exercise helps you improve the fluency and control in your bowing By training the movement in your wrist and fingers you get a better sound Sometimes your bow just doesn’t seem to do what you want it to do Maybe you get a bad sound, a crooked bow or...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Mar 13, 2019 | Bowing Technique |
In this video I share 3 different techniques to play accents on the violin They all have their own sound effect and can be combined with each other Accent 1: Push with your index finger For this way of playing accents, it’s important that you can move your index...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Mar 6, 2019 | Bowing Technique |
If there’s no indication of up bow or down bow in the sheet music, what’s the rule to follow? In this video I explain how to choose between up bow and down bow: What are up bow and down bow? Down bow is the bow direction from frog to tip. The player pushes...
