Most compendiums of studies and exercises suffer the same fate as the infamous home-trainers: one sets out full of good intentions but after a few weeks of blood, sweat and tears they are left to gather dust in a corner. Why? Any athlete prefers a proper cross-country run to a stint on the treadmill. If there is variety and a chance to make decisions, all the senses become involved. May this set of studies be spared the fate of the exercise-machine; rather they should serve as the equivalent of a cross-country run with people feeling liberated, ‘with-it’ and keen to set and achieve their own targets.
Contents
Exercises for the left hand
Waking up the fingers
Double stops in the neck positions
Double stops in thumb positions
Changes of position on the chromatic/diatonic scale
Changes of position in free fall on the chromatic/diatonic scale