Best Practices: Efficient Violin Practice : "Zoom In"

We've all seen those movies where forensic scientists are sitting around a computer screen looking at magnified DNA images, then the computer analysis specialist repeatedly hits a key that successively magnifies the already super magnified picture of blood samples.. Ok, so imagine you're one of those scientists, but instead of blood samples it's a magnification a string crossing or a shift. Keep zooming in until there is nowhere left to go. You are focusing on the very muscle movement/s responsible for executing the notes you are wanting to play.


This spot in the Bach C major Sonata always gives me grief.


--Beth Blackerby
creator and founder of ViolinLab.com