Kreutzer Etude #11, Practice Guide (Shifting)

This video offers some suggestions for how to practice Kreutzer Etude #11.

This is probably the most famous etude is all of violin for shifting! In some ways, it is an enhancement of Etude #9, except that we will combine finger pattern repetition with shifting during legato passages. It is a great etude for practicing Yost-style shifting, since there are lots of repeated notes and we are sticking around positions 1-5.

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@00:00 Introduction (a shifting follow-up to Etude #9)
@2:24 Practice overview (three-step process)
@5:24 Shifting mechanics: Introduction
@6:27 Shifting mechanics: Basics
@7:19 Shifting mechanics: Intermediary notes
@8:03 Shifting mechanics: Switching fingers
@9:53 Variations A: Yost-Style Audible Shifts
@11:37 Variations B: Less Audible Shifts
@12:45 Variations C: Finger Patterns
@15:45 Shifting Tip #1: Remove unnecessary motion
@17:34 Shifting Tip #2: Don't over-accelerate
@20:42 Demonstration

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Resources:
1) Winn's "How to Study Kreutzer": http://hdl.handle.net/1802/12714
2) Mimi Zweig demonstrates smooth shifting: https://stringpedagogy.com/members/vo...
3) Julia Bushkova shifting videos:    • Violin Techniques - Shifting (PART II)  
4) Yost shifting, 1st edition: https://imslp.org/wiki/Exercises_for_...)
5) Kross' alternative fingering for this etude: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...
6) A geeky physics metaphor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station... ("what path does your hand take to minimize the effort and audible-ness of the shift?")

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Playlist of all 42 Kreutzer Etudes:    • Kreutzer Etudes: Violin Skills Practi...  

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