Performance styles applied to notes are called Articulations.
When changing bow directions, you are:
Master artists add their own personal artistic touch to their paintings by using all types of brush strokes. When creating varied bowing styles, string players perform different types of bow-strokes.
The term Bow-Stroke refers to the manner and style of bowing.
Every Note has three parts — the Beginning, the Middle and the End.
The Beginning of a note is called the Attack.
The Middle of a note is its length and is called the Duration.
The End of a note is called the Release.
The two main Articulation styles are:
STACCATO and LEGATO
STACCATO means to perform with Crisp Bow Strokes.
LEGATO means to perform with Smooth Bow Strokes
Now let’s perform Bowing Exercise # 4 –The Art of the Bow-Change.
Staccato is indicated by a Dot.
Legato is indicated by a Line.
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