Hello. This is Julia Bushkova and today I'm going to be helping my student with
her ricochet spots in the piece that she's playing and she is playing
currently Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella and that's the piece that is
well known for sautille. The whole tarantella goes in sautille bowing and ricochet
in quite a few places. Ricochet that we are going to be addressing in there is
not ricochet that has lots of notes on the bow. It is ricochet that is confined
to several notes and it has a sound even and manageable be manageable and be
sustained for some time as it is in the music. The usual problems with the
ricochet of this sort is that people play them (ricochet)
in the wrong parts of the bow. Sometimes they are too low in the bow for the
speed; sometimes they are too high in the bow for the speed and I will see what
kind of problem she has as she will demonstrate it to us in a moment.
okay Clarissa
show me those spots. Allright, that's the first one, and the second one you said is
okay so both don't work pretty much. Allright, so first thing that we do, we move
the bow into the right part of the bow you're much too high in the bow so we'll
be lower and because we're doing the bowing we need to get rid of
the left hand for now. Okay. So the first bowing basically is something that you
do but even that let's say let's take one step first it will be two down and
two up without stopping
so what we're looking for is consistency, correct part of the bow, and
elbow should not droop. Okay. Good all right. Yeah, don't be afraid to drop
it and play a little bit more. Correct. Okay, so two times, three times as you
feel more comfortable, more repeats. Alright. Okay, so now we will go to three
per direction, so the bow still remains very small and you still drop it.
Good, and you can do couple more.
Exactly. So if it goes well do not stop. If you feel like it's
about to stop than you stop before it starts to malfunctioning. Okay, so now
let's try do what you have in the text which is... with the crossing of the string
actually that is one easier, so we have one note on D, one note on A and upper on A
it's slow tempo we're lowering the bow
very good you see. So don't go for the fast tempo you try to play here remember
how fast it wanted to be you don't want to do it anyway. Now we'll do the same
thing on two strings strings: two here, two there, so D and A, and A and E. The idea is
the same again - if it's comfortable than keep going.
Good. Okay so now do you want to try to add the fingers there?
And again don't play all of that - just what feels comfortable and the bow hand.
Okay. Good one and then when you have them on both strings, right? Yeah, don't you have
it later on two strings? okay. yeah exactly and if you get it. Okay.
Don't need to feel "oh my left hand!" You know, if you're not ready - fine. Just do
the bow and then meanwhile, left hand separately. Okay.
Second spot. Second spot is essentially three, and then three up. So, here. That's a
goal right? But that's kind of difficult, so what we want to do first is to do
separate bows and little accents: down three and up on the fourth one. Correct
and a little bit more. Good, exactly. So you establish that you can actually keep on
moving. So now, three we already did. Right? Those three. And because we don't
move the bow much at all on the three down, that little accent on up will get
you exactly in the beginning of your spot. Okay, one more time. Correct. Good!
It works and we don't want to go too fast too soon. What you will be doing next,
in your spot actually you have.. Let me see. We have..
So that's the pattern that is actually being played by the right hand when left
hand plays all the fun, so right now we'll just do the pattern try to do this with the crossing.
Exactly. So what I recommend that you would do that until you feel really
comfortable and then you will add the fingers. I will not ask you to do it right
now because it's tricky, but then you add the fingers to already
well-established right hand and then you go a little faster. When we go faster, we
travel slightly up in the bow but slightly means SLIGHTLY. It's like one
centimeter or half an inch, no more. All right, thank you.
We are done.