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Originally Posted by Ken Smith
About an Inch or less with the lower part of the hair almost touching the bridge area. This is meant only as an exercise and not a style of playing. true, sometimes you play at the bridge but the lesson/drill I showed about is a Lesson, not a Style.
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Along with the Fred Zimmerman bowing book and the Simandl Etudes, doing slow bows as close to the bridge as I could (20-30 sec between bow changes) was David Neubert's "bowing primer" for me.
I'm with you Ken I think the slow-bow exercises (using any scheme to get one started) is the way to go if you want to get the basics down on a good bow sound...learning to do a good draw up or down bow is
the foundation.