How to play fast - Strategies and routines for developing speed in the Rigaudon

How to play fast. SchoolofViolinArtistry.com Roy Sonne demonstrates step by step routines and strategies for developing speed in the Rigaudon from Kreisler's Sicilienne and Rigaudon.
1. Economy of motion with small finger movements
2. Practicing in rhythms
3. Practicing in groupings
4. Using the metronome to develop speed and reliability
5. Practicing without the bow
6. Mental imaging

[@sm9846]

Hi Mr Sonne you mentioned a very important subject ! I have difficulty in playing fast parts of czardas and its my aspiration to play this beautiful piece , THANK YOU SO MUCH ! God bless you from Iran

[@roysonne]

It is the second half of "Sicilienne and Rigaudon" by Fritz Kreisler

[@jeffandrewmusic]

Thanks Roy! Great video, very well put together. Checking out the rest of your site right now.

[@leonevergreen]

Great video, Roy, thanks for sharing

[@pepsiman1589]

Thanks so much for this! Great help!

[@alexmasNT]

Thanks, this is yet another high quality teaching video!

[@stephaniechristel7674]

Your teaching video is very helpful! I'm going to try it today. Many thanks! 😃

[@yayoatmeal]

Thanks Roy i love the succinct explanations

[@roysonne]

Thanks in turn to you yayoatmeal.

[@DoubleAviolin]

There are also a couple of rather odd string crossings involved, especially at the end of the passage that might be a large part of the trouble the passage is causing. One trick I learned from a chamber music coach for string crossings. Play them without the left hand. Practice all the string crossings on the open strings. It feel very odd at the beginning and it is surprisingly hard to pull off at first. But when once achieved the string crossings usually cause no more problems after that.

[@roysonne]

Thank you, Albrecht

[@Saghi8405]

Thanks! So helpful

[@charleschen3509]

I think this is really good strategies! brilliant.

[@TheFluteviolin]

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[@Colombiamusicalacade]

Gracias por el vídeo muy bueno y por compartir su conocimiento:)

[@user-gn2lf6ux6o]

Really appreciated !!!!! This routines help me a lot and it works now Super !!!!!!!

[@wheeyqywq]

Thanks alot :) really help! Great!👍👍👍👍

[@Colombiamusicalacade]

Saludos desde Colombia admirable tu pedagogía con este video has ayudado a muchas personas

[@roysonne]

Muchísimas gracias. Contentísimo de poder ayudar. Mejores saludos desde Pittsburgh.

[@roysonne]

Hello Євгенія Миколаївна Many thanks for your appreciative comment. If you haven't already done so, you might want to check out my website - School of Violin Artistry. The link is on this page. You'll find many more videos like this. Some are free and others are available if you sign up as a member.

[@roysonne]

[@pope0331]

Excelent advice. Too bad that it dealt with only the first measures. It would be nice to have your input on suggested shifts and positions for the rest of the piece. There are still many complex passages that would benefit from such professional teaching.

[@roysonne]

Great! Please let us know how it goes.

[@midnighttutor]

This is a great and very useful presentation. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on how to apply this to shuffle bowing so called tatering e.g. the hodown part of the Orange Blossom Special. Two slurred notes and two separate notes. I have been trying for years to get this to lightning speed to no avail. Thank you.

[@roysonne]

This is a good explanation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIqzY3iHe814Y7s

[@sololinist]

The part where you said to put the second finger down on both D and A strings to play that 5th, what if I feel my finger's not fat enough and I choose to instead hop/roll it over quickly back and forth? Is that fine?

[@sm9846]

thank you very much for your instructional videos , would you please tell me your metronome s name and it s model because it s sound is nice !

[@roysonne]

Hi siamak.It is a Seiko Quartz metronome I don't see any model indication.

[@sm9846]

thank you so much , that s very kind of you

[@bobberson3314]

Pennsylvania!

[@sololinist]

Is this piece considered intermediate or advanced?

[@MrChocolate7777]

hi what string are you using

[@roysonne]

Hello Mr Chocolate. I use Dominant A,D and G and Pirastro Gold Label E

[@MrChocolate7777]

heey thanks for replying..

[@sololinist]

Because the notes are fast is it acceptable to use open strings instead of fourth finger when convenient?

[@roysonne]

Absolutely. I would say that about 75% of the time the open string is a better choice.

[@sololinist]

@@roysonne let's be efficient and lazy when it's effective. Haha

[@sololinist]

@@roysonne general rule is ascending up in scale, use open string, descending use fourth finger. does that rule not always apply and I can use open string as I feel it fits even descending?