February 21, 2004 at 1:55 AM

This note is for Buri, I have no other way of contacting him. My apologies to everyone else, please disregard this note.

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Buri

I enjoy your wit on the violinist.com forum vey much!

I have only been playing violin for about a year and a half, I played guitar for over 20 years and at some point I started to study bach violin stuff on guitar, so when I finished college I decided it was time to switch instruments.

I have studied scales extensively, Im a very fluid guitarist and can play scales all over the fretboard up and down, my approach to violin scales is the same. I know the concept of positions and playing horizonially then moving up and playing the next higher position and also have this thing where use slides to get into a higher position, one scale exercise involves one scale using slides that allows you to play the scale all the way up, for example on guitar you play 3 notes a string and slide and go to the next string, violin is 4 notes a string slide to 5th note change strings 4 notes slide 4 notes slide 4 notes... you can also play the first note with your first finger then move to the next note with your first finger play the next 3 notes slide to a 6th note on the string, etc. This allows for a more smooth transition for playing 3 and 4 octave scales. I am also familiar with the concept of playing vertically like playing the whole scale on one string but that doesnt seem as easy or natural to do, although I do see its advantages tonally.

No I dont have galamian or flesch, I do have hrimaly but even that is redundant because as you see I could actually write scale books since I know all the scales, arpeggios, and chord theory. I also know synthetic scales like jazz melodic minor, harmonic minor, half whole diminished, whole half diminished, whole tone, lydian minor, etc etc. I studied jazz for 10 years and they use alot of altered and chromatically enhanced scales, and you have to really know chord and scale theory to get around doing that stuff. Im not really a great musician but I love playing anyways. I hope to write some music eventually and it will probably be more like new age stuff. Of course I study bach on guitar and violin and some of the 4 seasons stuff.

Its not that im not interested in galamian or flesch, maybe i will get to it one day, its just that i know enough scale theory to keep me busy for a long time. I do play some sevick op2 and soon op8 stuff as i did have lessons for about 2 months when i had the time and money I would also like to invite you to this forum, many downloads available

http://www.stephenredrobe.com/music

to get into the restricted areas, send an email to steve

steve@stephenredrobe.com

steve studied with shumsky and is the assistant of erick friedman, greatest pupil of heifetz of course, I have uploaded many rare recordings and videos of kogan, milstein, oistrakh, rabin and the like, there is also much sheet music available for download.

hope to see you there

Scott

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004
brivati wrote:
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>Greetings,
>Hi Scott. Was just enjoying reading your blog and was interested in your
>heroically patholgical appraoch to scale practice. It reminded me of an
>appraoch recommended by Jaime Laredo. That is, play a scale in all
>posiitons to the top of the fingerboard, but stay in one key. That
>really forces you tto think about patterns. Have you got the Galamian
>book? The scales up one string getting prgressively higehr are also a
>meaningful alternative /adjunct to what you are doing.
>Sorry, I have just changed my e-mail and forgotten it so you can=t reply
>except through the blog or on the list,
>Cheers,
>Buri

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