[Day 260] 🎻

Scales with fingers on the string ahead of time. This way I can isolate the string crossings from other events like finger movements and focus better on making them smooth.

It helps me to think of a scale as a sequence of events that take place with a rhythm. Left events include finger down, finger up, move left hand/arm to other string, shift. Right events include bow change and string crossings.

Every note in a scale starts with at least one event. Within a group, events might need to be ordered, for example a finger needs to be down before doing the string crossing that uses this finger.

The advantage of thinking in events is that they combine different activities into one regular pattern which I find easier to learn.