ABRSM – Elementary Progressive Studies, Set II for Violin

• provides invaluable practice material for the building of technique
• contains 24 studies, which comprehensively explore violin playing in the various positions indicated and a note at the head of each study shows further the technical skills to be developed
• contains a good variety of finger technique, keys and bow strokes
• helpful fingerings and bowings are given

24 Elementary Progressive Studies – Set II: 1st and 3rd Positions

• 1. For Finger Facility and legato Crossing of the Strings
• 2. Martelé Bowing at the Point
• 3. For developing Suppleness of the Wrist
• 4. Spiccato Bowing
• 5. Arpeggio Study
• 6. For Mordents
• 7. Preparatory Exercise for Chromatic Scales
• 8. For the further development of martelé Bowing at the Point
• 9. Trills
• 10. For developing quickness and firmness in Changing the Bow
• 11. Detached and Martelé Bowing
• 12. For Syncopation and Accuracy of Rests
• 13. Extension of the 4th Finger
• 14. Double Stopping
• 15. Chromatic Intervals
• 16. Irregular placings of the Fingers
• 17. Finger Facility and Legato Crossing of the Strings
• 18. Half Position
• 19. 3rd Position throughout
• 20. 1st and 3rd Positions. Open String Shifts only
• 21. 1st and 3rd Positions. Open String Shifts only
• 22. 1st and 3rd Positions. Portamento
• 23. 1st and 3rd Positions. Scale Passages
• 24. 1st and 3rd Positions. Detached Bowing