Beg/ Interm/ Adv: RH: Evenness of Tone: Dounis op.23, III, no.1

Hi all my patrons. It's good to see you here. Thank you very much for tuning in. Thank you very much for your continued support. Let me first play a tune for you. So this was a Dunis fundamental exercises which we started already in past couple of weeks, if not more. We've been working on Dunis books. This is on chapter 3 about how to control the bow so that we have an even tone and beautiful tone. Now here we're talking about string crossings which is very very important. So if you don't have the music please let me know. Please send me a message here on Patreon with the email address either here in the comments or a private message and I will email you the entire book. So now the first one it goes like this and open D then fourth finger then open D again then you would repeat up bow, open D, bow, open D. So now even though that's what you're printing you would not practice all notes slurred, all 16 notes slurred. Rather practice with a four note slur first. Open D, fourth finger, open D, four. Yeah so now let me show you again. It's crucially important that you raise the elbow a little higher than usual so that you kind of have to feel like you're floating on both strings. If you lower your right elbow for each one it creates uneven jerky motion which we do not want. We raise the elbow a little higher than usual whether it's up or down. Now notice also I'm making the bow very light by tilting the bow and actually I'm literally keep holding the bow a little higher just so that I use a couple hairs on the side to make the smooth string parsings. Then you would do four note slur, then fourth finger, then zero. Yeah now when you go a couple pages further backwards and go to page 17 there's a little nicely written out how one should practice. So first one it goes like this and you're supposed to practice at the front, middle, tip and using whole bows. Let us start first middle bow first. It's a little easier one. You will start a bow, two note slur, two note slur, two again, two note slur, two note slur. So it goes like this. Then you would do both ways. I started first up bow then this time start with down bow. Sorry. Now here you want to focus on a smooth even tone without any jerky motion. Then see if you can try front which is a little hard. Here we have to make sure the right elbow is high enough. The wrist is really raised. Starting with up bow. Yeah this one that's how much the wrist is raised to make the bow light. If you do that one at the tip it's not as hard because the bow itself is already very light. But frog is something that one could benefit a lot once you do that one. Then if you feel comfortable then you would go whole bow. Yeah then I'll change. So on and on like that. But even though I play one after the other, you would take a little more time practicing at least each one three to five times. I hope you can try it yourself. Please let me know if you want the music and I'll be happy to email it to you. I wish you all happy practicing and hope to see you again. Bye-bye.