m-BOWING WORLDS 9

Stick Training Exercises

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The following exercises help train your bow-hand’s

Fine Motor Skills.

Motor Skills give you the ability to perform movement.

Gross motor skills are the larger movements of the arms, legs, feet, or the whole body, like walking, climbing and jumping.

Fine Motor Skills are the motions of smaller muscles.

Typing, writing, turning a door knob, and picking up a pencil with your fingers are excellent examples of fine motor skills in action. Bowing employs various bow-hand fine motor skills control.

Fine Motor Skills employ three main types of motion:

  • Flexing is the contraction or bending of muscles.
  • Extending is stretching-out expansion of muscles.
  • Rotating is the angle adjustment of muscles.

Stick exercises may be performed with a chopstick.

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Even a simple pencil can do the trick!

It’s time to work on improving your

Fine Motor Skills.

Begin Stick Training

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Introducing the Bow
Parts of the Bow
The Stick
Horse-Hair 
The Tip
The Frog
The Winding
How the Bow Works 
Rosin
Preparing to Hold the Bow
Stick Training Exercises
Bowing Terminology
Down-Bow
Up-Bow     
Bow-Hand Set-Up
Finger Tasks and Functions
The Thumb
Meet ARC
Finger Segments
The Index-Finger   
Bow-Hand Pronation
The Center-Finger and Ring-Finger
Bow-Hand Fulcrum
Ring-Finger Propulsion
Bass Bows 
 Pinky Bow-Tasks
‘Casting’ the Bow-Hand
Bow-Wrist Tasks
Rotational Inertia
Arco
Clay Smile Exercise
Meet ANGLE 
The Bow-Arm Box
The Shoulder Arc
Bow Contact-Point
String Lanes
Bow-Segment Mastery
Bowing Exercises 
Finding the Bow Contact-Point
“Painting With Sound”
Bowing Exercises Menu
Bow Taps
Bowing Traditions 
Perform Down-Bows
Perform Up-Bows
The Art of the Bow-Change
Articulations
Staccato
Legato 
Mastery Checkpoint One
Building Bow Control
Bow Speed and Bow-Arm Motion
Bow Planning and Distribution
Slow Moving Bow Strokes
Individual Bow Segments
Traveling the Bow
Bowing Dynamics
Mastery Checkpoint Two 
Advanced Techniques
Slurs and Articulations
Slur Training
Locating the Bow’s Balance Point
Ricochet and Spiccato 
Exploring Ricochet
Ricochet Control
Spiccato Training
Spiccato Control
Spiccato Brush Strokes 
Multiple String Crossings
Virtuosic Bow Strokes
Arpeggio Bowing
“Flying” Staccato
Mastery Checkpoint Three joinsqscroll