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    Warming Up Vibrato Simon Fischer

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    (1) The document provides a 6-minute warm-up sequence for improving vibrato. It consists of 5 stages: heavy-light finger pressure, curving and straightening the nail joint, pulling and pushing the knuckles, moving the left hand in circles, and vibrating in rhythms with a metronome. (2) Each stage is done without the bow and focuses on a different motion - from rolling the finger to circling the hand. Players are instructed to repeat each stage with each finger as a continual sequence. (3) Regular practice of this warm-up is recommended, as the effects on improving vibrato are accumulative and the need to do it lessens over

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    (1) The document provides a 6-minute warm-up sequence for improving vibrato. It consists of 5 stages: heavy-light finger pressure, curving and straightening the nail joint, pulling and pushing the knuckles, moving the left hand in circles, and vibrating in rhythms with a metronome. (2) Each stage is done without the bow and focuses on a different motion - from rolling the finger to circling the hand. Players are instructed to repeat each stage with each finger as a continual sequence. (3) Regular practice of this warm-up is recommended, as the effects on improving vibrato are accumulative and the need to do it lessens over

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    (1) The document provides a 6-minute warm-up sequence for improving vibrato. It consists of 5 stages: heavy-light finger pressure, curving and straightening the nail joint, pulling and pushing the knuckles, moving the left hand in circles, and vibrating in rhythms with a metronome. (2) Each stage is done without the bow and focuses on a different motion - from rolling the finger to circling the hand. Players are instructed to repeat each stage with each finger as a continual sequence. (3) Regular practice of this warm-up is recommended, as the effects on improving vibrato are accumulative and the need to do it lessens over

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    Warming Up Vibrato Simon Fischer

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    (1) The document provides a 6-minute warm-up sequence for improving vibrato. It consists of 5 stages: heavy-light finger pressure, curving and straightening the nail joint, pulling and pushing the knuckles, moving the left hand in circles, and vibrating in rhythms with a metronome. (2) Each stage is done without the bow and focuses on a different motion - from rolling the finger to circling the hand. Players are instructed to repeat each stage with each finger as a continual sequence. (3) Regular practice of this warm-up is recommended, as the effects on improving vibrato are accumulative and the need to do it lessens over

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    BASICS

    Warming up the vibrato


    Here is an excellent warm-up sequence for vibrato. You can play it all in just six minutes. Or take notes
    from your repertoire where you would like to enhance the vibrato, and do just stages 1-4 on that finger on
    that note. Or if you have time, do the whole sequence. Afterwards you will find that the vibrato is
    immensely improved when you come to that note in the continuity of playing. The effects of the warm-up
    are accumulative: you need to do it less and less often the more you do it.
    Repeat each stage with each finger. Play through as a continual sequence.
    Fig. 1 (1) Heavy-light finger-pressure only (without the bow)
    Caption: Do not press the string down with the finger. Instead, start with the finger resting on the surface of the
    string, slightly more on its pad than for playing the note normally (Fig. 1), and then roll the finger forward
    Roll the finger on its pad towards the fingertip. As it does so the string is pressed down (Fig. 2). Feel the buoyancy of the
    forwards from string as it resists the finger, and its release as the finger rolls back again.
    here into the
    string

    Fig. 2
    (2) Curving and straightening the nail joint (without the bow)
    Caption: Make the finger give at the nail joint: roll forward on to the tip and let the nail joint curve (Fig. 3); roll
    backwards on to the pad and let the nail joint straighten (Fig. 4).
    Notice how the
    string is pushed
    down as you
    roll forwards

    Fig. 3
    (3) Pulling and pushing the knuckles in and out (without the bow)
    Caption:

    Straighten and
    bend the finger
    at the nail joint:
    roll forwards
    and bend
    Push the hand in towards the neck of the violin as far as possible, and pull back out again, as far as possible.
    Fig. 4 As you push and pull allow the finger to curve and straighten. Try to keep the wrist in a straight line
    throughout.
    Caption:

    Roll backwards (4) Moving the left hand in upright circles (without the bow)
    and straighten
    Move the left hand in upright circles like a wheel. Pull back-and-down, up, up-and-forward, and down again
    into the string. Allow the finger to straighten (back) and curve (into the note). Feel the finger-pressure
    releasing as you pull back-and-down in the circle, and increasing as you return back into the string at the
    end of the circle.
    BASICS

    Fig. 5
    (5) Vibrate in rhythms with the metronome
    Each diamond-note represents one vibrato 'ping'. The x-notes represent the backward releasing movement Caption:
    of the finger (flattening the pitch and making a harmonic-like, feathery tone).
    Push the hand
    Roll the finger forward with a feeling of one action: forward into the in-tune note, forward, forward,
    in as far as
    forward - not forward-back:
    possible
    Each day play with the metronome at different speeds: towards the
    Crotchet = 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120 neck

    Fig. 6

    Caption:

    Pull out as far


    as possible
    away from the
    neck

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