IMSS Violin Technical Work

IMSS Violin Technical Work

I have made some videos and backing tracks for the IMSS Violin Technical Work.

If you practice your technical work regularly you will develop an amazing technique and your pieces will feel much easier. The bowings are suggestions only so mix and match to suit.

You can play along with the videos, play with the piano backing tracks, or play with a drone (search "F# drone" on Youtube, for example). Having this point of reference helps you play in tune. You can slow down or speed up Youtube using the cog in the lower right corner.

James Charles

Year 7 IMSS Violin Technical Work Videos

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1. Bb major scale and arpeggio 2 octaves slowly

1. Bb Major scale and arpeggio 2 octaves as written

2. D major scale and arpeggio in 3rd position 1va

3. A melodic minor (upper octave)

4. A melodic minor (lower octave)

5. Dominant 7th Sequence

6. Shifting exercise

7. Chromatic exercise

8. Bb Major in sixths

8. Sixths exercise in A major

8. Octaves exercise

8. Thirds exercise in G major

8. Bb major in sixths with bowing pattern i.

8. ix. Broken G major chord

8. x. Broken G minor chord

8. xi. G major chord

8. xii. G minor chord

11. Melodic sequences

Page 2 bowing styles

a. Chain bowing

b. Whole bows with smooth bow changes, very slowly

c. Upper half of the bow

e. Lower half of the bow

f. Slurred staccato, 4 notes per bow

j. Bow distribution pattern example

l. Circles at the heel

Year 8 IMSS Violin Technical Work Videos

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1. Bb major scale and arpeggio 2 notes slurred

1. B major 7 notes slurred

1. C major chain bowing

1. D major martelé

1. E major slurred staccato, 4 notes per bow

1. F major hook stroke

2. D major scale and arpeggio 2va with shifting, spiccato

3. G melodic minor 2 notes slurred

4. C major in 3rd position, lower half of the bow

4. Descending with circles at the heel bowing

4. C major arpeggio with heel, point bowing (very challenging at this speed!)

5. G harmonic minor 3 notes slurred (2 notes slurred leading into the arpeggio)

6. Chromatic scale slow

6. G chromatic scale fast, 7 notes slurred

7. A Diminished 7th

8. Scale up one string 012-1234-4

8. Scale up one string 0123-1234

9. Shifting between 1st, 3rd & 5th position on every string

10. G major in sixths

10. G major in octaves

Year 10 IMSS Violin Technical Work Videos

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1. Ab major, 4 notes slurred

2. B melodic minor, 2 notes slurred

3. B harmonic minor, spiccato – each note played 4 times

4. G major up the E string 2–123–1234, 2 slurred 2 separate

5. A major up the E string 123-1234-4, 2 slurred 2 upbow staccatos

6. Shifting with a drone accompaniment

7. A dominant 7th, 4 notes slurred

7. G diminished 7th, bow distribution exercise

8. Chromatic exercise

8. Chromatic scale

9. String crossing and double stops pattern i.

9. Pattern iii. Legato

9. Pattern iii. Spiccato

9. Pattern iv. Martelé

9. Pattern iv. Spiccato

9. Pattern v. Martelé

9. Pattern v. Spiccato

9. Pattern vii.

9. Pattern viii.

9. Pattern ix. A major chord

9. Pattern ix. A minor chord

2. B melodic minor, hook stroke

3. B harmonic minor, up bow staccato