Publisher: ABRSM Publishing
Composer: Herbert Kinsey
Format: Book
Level: Beginner
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provides invaluable practice material for the building of technique
• transcribed for viola by Margaret Banwell from Kinsey’s classic violin studies
• comprehensively explore viola playing on the various positions indicated
Contents

Elementary Progressive Studies - Set I: 1st Position
1. Semitones between 1st and 2nd Fingers
2. Semitones between 2nd and 3rd Fingers
3. Legato Crossing of Strings
4. Exercise for Strengthening the Fingers
5. Scale Passages. Firm Bowing
6. Legato Playing
7. Scale Passages
8. Occasional use of 4th Finger
9. Exercise for Strengthening the Fingers
10. Exercise for Lifting the Bow
11. Preparatory Exercise for Trills
12. Arpeggio Exercise
13. Varied Bowings
14. Preparatory Exercise for Trills
15. Varied Bowings
16. Preparatory Exercise for Trills
17. Exercise for Developing the Independence of the Fingers with legato bowing
18. Lifted Bowing near the Heel
19. Preparatory Exercise for Trills, with Scale Passages
20. Spiccato Bowing
21. Exercise for the smooth joining of the Bows
22. Scale Passages and Spiccato Bowing
23. Varied Bowings
24. Varied Bowings