Violin Practice Fundamentals, part 3: Thoughtful Anticipation

It's still not time to speed it up yet! The previous step was the input process, where we fired thoughts in succession, giving our arms and fingers necessary information to "know" what to do. However, knowing what to do and being able to do it are two different things. Now we start honing the ability to think ahead. This is the stage I refer to as "thoughtful anticipation" where we are able to think the next action before we get there and can prepare our technique to refine execution.