Eddy Reveals the 4 Most Essential Violin Exercises

If you could only practice 4 technical exercises for the rest of your life... which four would they be. This is the question I asked my old violin teacher, Michele Walsh, one of the most well-respected violin pedagogues in Australia.

Yes I know, it's impossible and stupid to only play 4 technical exercises for the rest of your life if your goal is to reach your full violinistic potential. However, the answer to this question provides a very effective guideline to how to structure your warm ups, as well as maintenance-practice when you are pressed for time.

The exercises are:
1. Slow Tones (4:52)
2. Schradieck Book 1 (6:36)

http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/3/37/IMSLP26801-PMLP59431-Henry_Schradieck_School_of_Violin_Technics_Bk.1.pdf

3. Carl Flesch No. 5 (7:48)
1 or 2 octave scales for beginner/intermediate
4. Collé Exercises (More advanced players only) (8:44)
E.g. Sevcik Op. 3
http://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/8/87/IMSLP64746-PMLP131898-Sevcik_-_40_Variations_Op3_for_Violin.pdf
Kreutzer 7 (practiced at frog, starting first up bow, then later down bow)
http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/89/IMSLP23370-PMLP04613-Kreutzer_-_40_Etudes_or_Caprices_for_Violin__David_.pdf

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