Learn With Nicky: Salut d'amour - Lesson 1

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Lesson 1:

I hope you enjoyed this video! Here’s all the points I made written out so you can keep track.

FAMILIARISATION (Favourite word of the day😍)

THE MIND - NO INSTRUMENT
Familiarise yourself with:

- Key signature
- Tempo
- Length of piece
- Structure
- Difficult parts
- Intention of sound
- Intention of expression

THE BODY - NO INSTRUMENT
Familiarise yourself with:

GENERAL
- Your breath (forgot to talk about this sorry! Breath deep and calmly, and don’t hold your breath)
- The floor
- Your shoulders
- Your arms
- Your hands

LEFT HAND/PICK UP INSTRUMENT
- Draw circles
- Scooping up and back down, being bold
- Wiggle fingers aaaaaand drop!

RIGHT HAND/PICK UP BOW
- Paint
- Flop
- Let go with left hand and balance

PICK UP BOTH INSTRUMENT AND BOW
- Now wait and bob and feel weight of both

SEPARATE OUT LEFT AND RIGHT HAND
- Create sound without worrying at ALL about the left hand
- Work out left hand without worrying about sound

IGNORE VIBRATO, RHYTHM, AND SOUND WHEN ONLY FOCUSED ON LEFT HAND
Only be concerned with
- intonation
- left hand relaxation and comfort
- left hand clarity

PATIENCE - THE ART OF SLOW PRACTICE
NOW LET’S GO SO SO SLOWLY
- Patience Is key
- Keep breathing as you’re doing stuff that’s really slow
- Keep shaking out your body
- Put down the instrument if you get impatient and angsty

GENERAL BITS OF ADVICE

- Anything that’s really difficult that takes a lot of concentration – DO NOT DO FOR LONG
- Don’t allow yourself to get disheartened or disappointed. This is NOT EASY!
- Keep focused on the bigger picture and do not get down about small problems
- Stay focused, and if you’re getting distracted – stop and start again

Remember to upload little videos of these exercises on Facebook or Instagram if you can 😍 and #salutnicky

YOUR TWO SET TASKS

1. to do this 15 min routine twice today
2. send us, on whichever platform suits, your opinion on this question:

What are the biggest challenges with the first four bars?
Tomorrow we’re going to tackle when things get really tricky.
Lots of love,
Nicky

Full details of the Elgar Salut d’amour Project can be found here: www.benedettifoundation.org/learn-with-nicky

To download the music, click on these links:

E major violin part - Nicky’s annotations: https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_95ef898670e343ebac2ede562096a44e.pdf

E major violin part - https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_99070b48f94849d591efd1f636e99c19.pdf

D major violin part - https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_67e6e08450e9459884032bc58b37af12.pdf

D major violin part - Nicky’s annotations: https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_450d320948d44f95b37e1b7b2bceb78f.pdf

To download the piano parts, click on these links:

E major piano part: https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_9e51d29cf8144260bb8c4827b4fb42d1.pdf

D major piano part: https://e8659fe1-1f7a-4513-b292-0b09671f469d.filesusr.com/ugd/aa5102_8c25ea9c24e04d2998fcf295817babda.pdf

To play along with Nicky:

D major: https://youtu.be/XAIFqZuFHpI

E major: https://youtu.be/xN9Cz1TL2bE

To play along with pianist, Petr Limonov, please go to: www.benedettifoundation.org/learn-with-nicky

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