Tips: What to practice - Right Hand Warm-Ups

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These are warm-ups for your bow. You may want to start with the bow hold exercises and then the ones with the bow on the string, playing open strings. You may pick a different exercise every time you practice.

All your attention should be on your bow hold, bow arm and later on your sound.

Just bow in you hand:

1. Bow circles - small

2. Bow circles - big

3. Tick Tock Grandpa's Clock

With bow on the string: These warm-ups can be played on any string

1. Down Bow & Up Bow Direction on D string

   
   

2. Say your name on A string

   
   

3. Ice - Cream on G string (slow)

   
   

4. Ants, Ants, Ants, In My Pants! on D string (medium speed)

   
   

5. Apple, Apple on G string (medium speed)

   
   

6. Pepperoni Pizza Mmm, Mmm on C string (fast)