Find a shift's outline first — just the start and end points — before filling in the notes. Watch and learn why a fast shift isn't a slow shift played quicker, and how thumb-joint flexibility gets the finger there.
Dr. Demetrius Constantine Dounis had a unique background in medicine and music which gave him the tools to address the efficiency of violin playing in novel ways. Hard work, while necessary, should be geared toward getting the most for minimum effort. This is the main aim of Dounis’s scientific method, one that Daniel Phillips explains in great detail throughout this course.
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