Paganini Caprice 3, Practice Guide (Fingered Octaves, High Speed Legato)

Today's video offers a few practice suggestions for Paganini Caprice 3. It comes with two sections, a slower fingered octaves portion and a high-speed legato portion. The legato portion is a really good exercise in speed and bow division.

Key practice pattern for legato section: Stopped marteles
Favorite exercise to prep for octaves section: Single finger scales

As always, I don't consider myself a virtuoso or anything, so please don't fret over my play-through. Hopefully just appreciate the practice suggestions!

Introduction
@0:00 Play-through
@3:36 Welcome
@3:56 Overview of structure
@4:09 Opening and closing octaves (e minor)
@4:37 Middle high speed legato (E Major)

Legato section: Intro
@5:31 Introduction
@5:57 Left Hand Goals: Even rhythm, Intonation
@6:58 Right Hand Goals: Smooth sound, phrasing
@7:38 Summary of goals

Legato section: Practice patterns
@8:00 Practice Pattern 1: Stopped Martele
@9:05 Benefits of stopped martele
@9:45 Key focus: Bow division
@10:27 More demonstrations of stopped martele
@12:56 Practice Pattern 2: Speed Work
@13:37 Key focus: Training your ear
@14:50 Practice Pattern 3: Rhythms

Legato section: Phrasing
@16:26 Phrasing: Intro
@17:00 Melodic shapes, patterns, interruptions
@18:17 Phrasing execution: Bites (pressure) and Bow speed
@18:50 Bow speed example

Double stops section: Intro
@20:30 Introduction
@21:17 Start from the melody, not from the hand

Double stops section: Practice exercises
@22:36 Exercise 1: Single finger scales (Ruggiero Ricci)
@24:26 Exercise 1b: Two finger scales, etc.
@25:10 Exercise 2: Fingered octave scales/arpeggios from Carl Flesch
@25:30 Exercise 3: Line by line
@26:15 Exercise 4: Hand stretch

Double stops section: General suggestions
@27:20 Double stop trills: Strength from elbow
@28:25 Be relaxed, don't squeeze
@29:20 Explore hand angle and thumb position

Recordings:
1)    • Augustin Hadelich plays Paganini Capr...   (Augustin Hadelich)
2)    • Paganini Caprice no.3 [HQ]   (Alexander Markov)
3)    • Paganini: Caprice No. 3 (Shlomo Mintz)   (Shlomo Mintz)

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