Single Note Exercises
Single note exercises are an essential way for an instrumentalist to prepare him/herself for a practice session or a performance. Exercises give players a chance to concentrate on specific techniques such as finger placement, and wrist/arm movement of the right hand. It is important to work with a metronome to slowly increase speed and improve dexterity. The enhanced skills a player acquires thru these drills can lead to the extra accuracy that separates an amateur from a professional.
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These are the foundation of repetitive exercises because of there simplicity. They have no musical value and are only intended to improve a players skills. Practice these slowly and cautiously focusing on accurate technique.
Examples of note skips within the major scale are listed here. These exercises familiarize us with major scales and improve our ability to maneuver through scales.
This outline of note skips has us moving between strings and skipping strings. Aside from gaining left hand coordination, our right hand is forced to achive the difficult task of striking the correct string.
These are pleasant sounding exercises with notes grouped into 3's or 4's played ascending and descending on the instrument.
Here are examples of coils limited to a single string or two. Also, very large interval leaps are outlined.
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