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Ronald Houston goes over some Sevcik bowing exercises for VIOLA & offers some tips in this video tutorial.
Just so happens to be related to stuff recently talked about in the Bow Pulse Thread!
Thought I'd also include this video tutorial, because it's not so much about exact exercises - more about getting creative with simple exercises!
I want to at least hear EXACTLY what I am supposed to sound like while I'm learning exercises (I'm feeling too old & too lazy to guess) - needless to say, I really appreciate videos like these!
Not sure if the How To Practice Violin, Viola and Cello YT Channel has been mentioned elsewhere, not as great as hearing/seeing a string player, but these series of popular scale & etude study exercises (plus more) are good to play-along with at least for intonation & notation reading.
VIOLA Studies Playlists including: Sevcik, Carl Flesch, Schradieck, Kayser, Kreutzer & Suzuki. Also slow play-along for Bach Viola pieces (and others)!
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Ronald Houston goes over some Sevcik bowing exercises for VIOLA & offers some tips in this video tutorial.Just so happens to be related to stuff recently talked about in the Bow Pulse Thread!
Thought I'd also include this video tutorial, because it's not so much about exact exercises - more about getting creative with simple exercises!
I want to at least hear EXACTLY what I am supposed to sound like while I'm learning exercises (I'm feeling too old & too lazy to guess) - needless to say, I really appreciate videos like these!
Not sure if the How To Practice Violin, Viola and Cello YT Channel has been mentioned elsewhere, not as great as hearing/seeing a string player, but these series of popular scale & etude study exercises (plus more) are good to play-along with at least for intonation & notation reading.
VIOLA Studies Playlists including: Sevcik, Carl Flesch, Schradieck, Kayser, Kreutzer & Suzuki. Also slow play-along for Bach Viola pieces (and others)!
@elcbk.... hmmm i dont know now.. not so sure about this being related to the laura bow pulse video. seems like a different technique to get a different sound. granted he talks about sinking into bow but its to get that long beautiful cresendo type sound. over in my topic im shooting for more of a...as its been described to me...eeeawww sound. it does build in volumn some but instead of continuing..dies back. and for sure no vibrato. could have it but usually not so much.
these are good and thank you...just seems to me cant relate to the other. other than a bow a squeezing down on it. dont forget that in addition to squeezing down theres an increase in speed with the pressure and a letting off of speed as you let off pressure. he says not to do that here.
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Didn't say this was a pulse bowing exercise (why I gave the link for more info) - just some elements that will be helpful when trying to do any of the pulse bowing on Viola. Only think these are good warm-up exercises that help with bow control, hand flexibility & tone on Viola.
Hard to understand why more tutorials don't point out speed changes associated with dynamics in bowing. Little details do help, especially since some things in Viola playing seem to take more effort than on Violin (my lower strings, too). Ronald actually shows some crescendo/decrescendo, guess he forgot to mention speed along with pressure (but he does it). Vibrato, etc... have to ignore the stuff that doesn't apply.
THIS VIDEO is probably best for showing 'pulse' in VIOLA bowing - from Kristina Giles.
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im just not seeing/hearing anything thats like the other topic. i think these are seperate techniques/styles. BUT.. good for practicing im sure. i think what she calls "pulse" here is same as the other in name.
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and i think the clue for them being different is that this is a 20:00 video that really only takes about 2:00 to demonstrate over in the other.
just dont see it..sorry 
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