Keep your shoulder down and relaxed and swing open your Shoulder Arc, bringing your Bow-Arm directly above the D String.
Suspend the bow over the string and sense the force that gravity has on the weight of your bow-arm. Keep your bow parallel to the bridge, ready to land this weight onto the string.
STEP THREE
Locate the bow hair area nearest your right thumb and prepare to land the bow on the strings at the bow’s lower segment area.
Without moving the bow horizontally, now land the bow onto the D string. Keep the bow still and stable on the string.
Congratulations! You just found the Bow Contact-Point.
Now, lift the bow off the string and return to rest position.
Let’s repeat the exercise again and make bow landings on different strings. Try placing the bow at all different bow-segments.
Choose a string and bow-segment. Now, please return to playing position and perform the exercise in rhythm. Let’s go! 1-2-3-4
Practice mastering contact-point landings at all bow-segments.
Focused Bow Contact-Point practice brings control and clarity to your bowing and core to your sound!
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