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Violin Bow Technique

   by Fintan Murphy

Fintan Murphy

The major bowstrokes, demonstrated in stages from beginner to professional level. Covers advanced and expressive bowing and the fundamentals. Fintan's experience as a soloist and orchestral player combine with his teaching and research to create a structured resource for violinists, teachers and string pedagogy programs.

Bow technique to help you play with ease and fluency

"it's invaluable stuff ... really good grounding in the different aspects of what the bowing arm should be doing ... Murphy has a knack of pinpointing the exact train of thought or muscle instruction that will unlock the secret of a particular bow stroke"

      - Catherine Nelson, THE STRAD

Improve your bowing and develop expression with the help of explanations and teaching points contained in 130 video clips with CD-quality audio.

Played by Fintan Murphy with addional playing by Andrea Keeble and Jennen Ngiau-Keng. Fintan Murphy is Head of Strings at Monash University School of Music, Australia.

Multimedia software on DVD-ROM for Win 2000/XP & Mac OS X

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