Conclusion
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Simon FischerSimon Fischer wraps up the tone exercises, encouraging you to spend a few minutes each day exploring the sensations of bow, string and sound rather than drilling.
What's in the course
17 lessons (1h 15m) · 1 free
01. Introduction to Combinations
0:18
02. Alternative approach to Exercise one
1:23
03. Exercise six: Speed exercise + Pressure exercise
0:55
04. Exercise seven: Speed exercise + Changing soundpoint
3:30
05. Exercise eight: Pressure exercise + Sounding soundpoint
1:44
06. Exercise nine: Same weight, increasing speed
1:21
07. Exercise ten: Same speed, increasing weight
1:14
08. Conclusion
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Lesson transcript
Enjoying the Journey: Tone Production
So that's it for now. Enjoy these experiments with tone!
The Key to High Performance
Enjoying what you're doing is the key to all high performance in just about anything. This is especially true when it comes to tone production. Enjoying playing the instrument is more important than any amount of knowledge or practice.
Daily Practice and Exploration
Recommendation:
- Play the exercises for just a few minutes each day.
Simply enjoy:
- The different tonal possibilities
- The sensations of the string
- The hair in the string
- The wood of the bow
- Your fingers contacting the bow
Connect all these sensations with the sound.
Sound and Sensation
Remember, the sound of a note and the sensation of playing it are like the front and back of the same coin.
Discovering New Possibilities
After the smallest amount of work using these methods:
- Isolate speed of bow
- Pressure
- Distance from the bridge
You'll quickly find an extraordinary new range of color and expression, as well as infinitely greater control of the bow in all of your music-making.
Mastering the Exercises
If you go further and really become an expert in playing the exercises:
- You'll be able to pick up the instrument and play any of them easily
- Produce a completely pure, resonant tone, free of any blemishes caused by imbalances of speed, pressure, or sound point.
Achieving this level means you'll find yourself on an entirely different level as an instrumentalist and musician.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Simon Fischer enjoys a distinguished and wide-ranging career as a performer, educator and recording artist.
He has performed worldwide as a recitalist, and committed three Brahms Sonatas to record, a recording that received high praise in Gramophone Magazine.
Simon is recognised as having a place amongst the world's elite teachers. He is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music, and has held positions at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Wells Cathedral School and the Purcell School, and for 15 years was a visiting professor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. Having studied in London with Yfrah Neaman, and in New York with Dorothy DeLay, Fischer's approach unites the best elements of the French, Russian and American violin traditions.
Fischer's published work greatly influences the teaching of the violin. Having written for The Strad magazine since 1991, his monthly articles have attracted a worldwide following. Published by Edition Peters, his technique books Basics and Practice (translated into Korean, Italian and German), Scales and The Violin Lesson, and the DVD The Secrets of Tone Production (now available to stream via MusicGurus), have become standards on many continents. His book and DVD Warming Up was described by The Strad magazine as "23 pages of pure technical gold".
In 2014 Simon Fischer was awarded the European String Teachers Association prize "In celebration of a lifetime contribution to String Teaching".
In his four-part Secrets of Tone Production course, Simon guides you through getting to know your instrument and then working through his fundamental tone exercises step by step, so you can produce a richer, more controlled and more beautiful sound on the violin.
