Kreutzer Etude #3, Practice Guide (Detaché, Shifting)

(Etude Themes: Detaché, Shifting)
This video offers some suggestions for how to practice Kreutzer Etude #3.
Etude #3 is shorter and has less melodic variation than #2. As recommended by Kreutzer, you are welcome to apply all the same variations from Etude #2. But following some of the demonstrations from Edith Winn and Mimi Zweig, I will just focus on detache for this etude. At the same time, we add in some basic shifting up and down the C Major scale.
Note: The Galamian edition bowing and fingerings ensure that you are only shifting across bow changes or open strings. So, it is a good way to practice timing your shifts to sound hidden! A tip on quiet shifts - plan exactly where you want to shift to, try to smooth out any unnecessary accelerations/decelerations, and you may find that you actually don't have to move your hand as fast as you thought you did. (Don't worry, we will practice shifts within a slur in Etude #11).
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@00:00 Introduction
@1:10 Practice Style #1: All bowing patterns (Kreutzer, Massart)
@2:03 Practice Style #2: Just stick to detaché (Winn, Zweig)
@2:48 Intro to shifting in Kreutzer
@3:47 Shifting Consideration #1: Keeping the hand frame
@5:22 Shifting Consideration #2: Shifting from previous finger
@6:18 Shifting Consideration #3: Well-timed shifts
@6:55 Bowing Pattern (Lined up with shifts)
@7:50 Play-through
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Resources:
1) Mimi Zweig teaches shifting: stringpedagogy.com/members/vo...
2) Massart's "Art of Studying Kreutzer": onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...
3) Winn's "How to Study Kreutzer": hdl.handle.net/1802/12714
4) Yost shifting: imslp.org/wiki/Exercises_for_...)
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