Secrets of String Success - 3 DVD Set

Join world renowned string pedagogue Dr. Gerald Fischbach and his distinguished colleagues, Phyllis Young and David Neubert, as they lead an enthusiastic group of young students. Together, they make learning a string instrument fun, exciting, and remarkably effective. These movement-education based exercises and routines provide a quick boost to any string method. Teachers and students alike will find this entertaining series to be insightful, providing and essential layer of how-to (and why-to) information to fill in the gaps left by the words and still pictures in method books. Contents Include: DISC 1: Unit 1 Holding the Instrument and Bow - Part 1A: Getting Comfortable with your instrument - Part 1B: Floating Banjo - Part 1C: Statue of Liberty Holding the Cello - Part 2: The "Alert Sentry" Holding the Bass - Part 3A: Sizing and Fitting - Part 3B: Standing - Part 3C: Sitting Increasing Instrument Holding Skills - Part 4: SwingStrum - Part 5: Shuttle SwingStrum Violin/Viola, Cello & Bass - Part 6A: Holding the Bow - Part 6B: Holding the Bass Bow, "Jaws" The German Bow - Part 6C: The Floating Parachute - Part 6D: The Monkey Hang - Part 6E: Waterbuckets, Strawberries, & Honey Dipped Bows - Part 7A: Bow Parallel to the Bridge - Part 7B: Bow Tilt, Sounding Point, Angle - Part 8: Place and Lift, Bounce Tap, & Rock and Roll Unit 2 Beginning Bowing - Part 9: Bow Directions - Part 10: The Basic Detache Stroke - Part 11: Rhythm Patterns: Open String "Roundabouts" - Part 12: More Roundabouts - Part 13: Everybody's Favorite Roundabout: Meter Melt DISC 2: Unit 3 The Left Hand - Part 14: 3-Position Shuttle SwingStrum - Part 15: Grasshopper Gus! - Part 16: String Polishing - Part 17: Harmonics - Part 18: Finding First Position - Part 19: The Magic "Octave" - Part 20: First Finger Patterns Unit 4 Growing Bowing - Part 21: Travelin' Lift and Place - Part 22: Boomerang Pizzicato - Part 23: Crisp Strokes I Unit 5 Double Bass - Part 24: Special Left Hand Topic: The Pivot DISC 3: Unit 6 Introductions and Exercises for: Bow Arm Flexibility - Part 25: I. The Paint Brush - Part 26: II. The Elevator - Part 27: III. Stick Walk - Part 28: IV. Sky Writing Unit 7 The Artistic Bow Arm - Part 29: Crisp Strokes II: Martele - Part 30: Crisp Strokes III: Spiccato - Part 31: Bow Speed, Bow Division - Part 32: Farewell, young artists!