Teaching advanced right-hand techniques includes:
- Bow strokes
- On string
- Off string
- Stylistic
- Expressive
- Bowing patterns
- Even distribution
- Uneven distribution
- Combined distribution
- Bow direction changes
- Bow hair tilts
- Roulé bow strokes
- The role of fingers, hand and wrist in bow direction changes
- The role of body movement in playing in the tip and frog parts of the bow
- Principles of tone production
- Bow and right arm weight/pressure
- Bow speed
- Sounding points: “Five Dynamics Lanes”
Desired outcomes:
- Command over various bow strokes
- Command over various bowing patterns
- Command over bow direction changes
- Understanding and command of overall principles of tone production