I’m gladly here to share few professional pointers that help you to perform Flying-Staccato.
Performing Flying-Staccato
The goal is to perform each note quickly, with the exact amount of bow-hand and bow-arm control needed to create rapid staccato-style notes in the same bow direction on the string, resulting in Flying-Staccato!
Earlier, you learned how to slur articulated staccato notes. Now it is time to work on increasing control and tempo, striving to achieve virtuosic command of extremely rapid notes in the same bow direction.
While performing Up-Bow Staccato, point the tip of the bow ever so slightly towards the bridge. As you continue to propel the notes, correct this intentional arc and return to directing the bow parallel to the bridge.
Suggestion One: Bow-Hand Adjustment — Finger Lifting and Dropping
Experiment with these Finger Lifting combinations:
While performing Down-Bow Staccato, drop the weight of both your center-finger and your pinky back onto the bow, striving to trigger a slight degree of ricochet bowing action to the bow stroke.
Yes, everyone has learned that bowing parallel to the bridge is a crucial bowing rule. However, while keeping this as the overriding bowing principle, adding a slight arc-shaping while directing the bow, serves to increase the degree of follow-through bowing motions. Planning arc adjustments, help the bow create rapid-succession chain reactions and propel notes more rapidly.
A beneficial practice technique is to lift different sets of fingers off the bow. This helps increase pin-point bow control, directed by the remaining fingers.
While performing Up-Bow Staccato, you gain increased bow control by lifting the center-finger and the pinky off the bow. At the same time, lean more weight into your index-finger and increase the security of both your thumb and ring-finger.
Suggestion Two: Bow-Lane Sweep Approach — Planned Propulsion
While performing Down-Bow Staccato, pull the frog slightly closer to the bridge and correct the bow’s path, directing the bow parallel as you continue the bow stroke.
Suggestion Three: Accentuated Note Grouping — Puzzle Pieces
Plan in extreme detail, each string crossing needed in the pattern you are attempting to perform. Then, practice each isolated individual piece of the pattern. You can pretend you are polishing musical mini-puzzle pieces.
After securely controlling each individual piece, perform two pieces together. Continue adding more pieces together as if sewing fabric pieces together, creating your best Flying-Spiccato Virtuoso Quilt.
Approaching practically any technical passage in this fashion, brings about increased performance confidence and consistency.
Further mastery of Flying-Spiccato is attained by increasing beat emphasis while performing the bow stroke.
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Introducing the Bow Parts of the Bow The Stick Horse-Hair The Tip The Frog The Winding How the Bow Works
Rosin Preparing to Hold the Bow Stick Training Exercises Bowing Terminology Down-Bow Up-Bow
Bow-Hand Set-Up Finger Tasks and Functions The Thumb Meet ARC Finger Segments The Index-Finger
Bow-Hand Pronation The Center-Finger and Ring-Finger Bow-Hand Fulcrum Ring-Finger Propulsion Bass Bows
Pinky Bow-Tasks ‘Casting’ the Bow-Hand Bow-Wrist Tasks Rotational Inertia Arco Clay Smile Exercise Meet ANGLE
The Bow-Arm Box The Shoulder Arc Bow Contact-Point String Lanes Bow-Segment Mastery Bowing Exercises
Finding the Bow Contact-Point “Painting With Sound” Bowing Exercises Menu Bow Taps Bowing Traditions
Perform Down-Bows Perform Up-Bows The Art of the Bow-Change Articulations Staccato Legato
Mastery Checkpoint One Building Bow Control Bow Speed and Bow-Arm Motion Bow Planning and Distribution
Slow Moving Bow Strokes Individual Bow Segments Traveling the Bow Bowing Dynamics Mastery Checkpoint Two
Advanced Techniques Slurs and Articulations Slur Training Locating the Bow’s Balance Point Ricochet and Spiccato
Exploring Ricochet Ricochet Control Spiccato Training Spiccato Control Spiccato Brush Strokes
Multiple String Crossings Virtuosic Bow Strokes Arpeggio Bowing “Flying” Staccato Mastery Checkpoint Three
SCROLL’s List of Bow Strokes
Rosin Preparing to Hold the Bow Stick Training Exercises Bowing Terminology Down-Bow Up-Bow
Bow-Hand Set-Up Finger Tasks and Functions The Thumb Meet ARC Finger Segments The Index-Finger
Bow-Hand Pronation The Center-Finger and Ring-Finger Bow-Hand Fulcrum Ring-Finger Propulsion Bass Bows
Pinky Bow-Tasks ‘Casting’ the Bow-Hand Bow-Wrist Tasks Rotational Inertia Arco Clay Smile Exercise Meet ANGLE
The Bow-Arm Box The Shoulder Arc Bow Contact-Point String Lanes Bow-Segment Mastery Bowing Exercises
Finding the Bow Contact-Point “Painting With Sound” Bowing Exercises Menu Bow Taps Bowing Traditions
Perform Down-Bows Perform Up-Bows The Art of the Bow-Change Articulations Staccato Legato
Mastery Checkpoint One Building Bow Control Bow Speed and Bow-Arm Motion Bow Planning and Distribution
Slow Moving Bow Strokes Individual Bow Segments Traveling the Bow Bowing Dynamics Mastery Checkpoint Two
Advanced Techniques Slurs and Articulations Slur Training Locating the Bow’s Balance Point Ricochet and Spiccato
Exploring Ricochet Ricochet Control Spiccato Training Spiccato Control Spiccato Brush Strokes
Multiple String Crossings Virtuosic Bow Strokes Arpeggio Bowing “Flying” Staccato Mastery Checkpoint Three
SCROLL’s List of Bow Strokes