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Gordon Shumway
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So far all the videos I've seen are about adjacent string-crossing.

Even in Simon Fischer's Basics his non-adjacent string exercises begin with détaché bowing from G to A and G to E without discussing how. And is there such a thing as legato bowing between non adjacent strings?

Has Fiddlerman done a video on this?

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I don't think it's possible to slur between non-adjacent strings. You could probably fake a kind of detache if you were quick to lift the bow off the old string and onto the new.

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There is one tune I play, Jacky Tar, that jumps from the D string to the E string, and you are supposed to slide your finger across the A string to mute it a bit, so it becomes kind of a grace note slur along the way. Not sure how common that is?

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It can be done. There can be some slight sound when crossing but it can be done tastefully just the same. :)

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The trick is to be able to stop the bow dead on a string while swivelling so that there's no sound? I must practice that. I hope I don't get Parkinsons!

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