Incredibly Useful Exercises, HEAVY SPICCATO

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Welcome to the third of a 6-part series on Spiccato. Episode 3, "Heavy Spiccato", covers a practice process that develops a dark, slow, powerful spiccato that happens very close to the frog.
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Spiccato families and tempos of significant orchestra excerpts:
IMPORTANT NOTE #1: All tempos are approximations, subject to the whims of the conductor.
IMPORTANT NOTE #2: All tempos are marked as 16th notes per quarter note. All tempos in compound meter (6/8, 9/8, etc) have been converted to the equivalent bow stroke tempo as measured in 16th notes.
Example: In 6/8 time, Eighth notes @ dotted quarter = 120 is the same speed as 16th notes in 4/4 time at quarter = 90. (compound tempo * 0.75 = simple tempo)
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LIGHT SPICCATO FAMILY
Beethoven 7, 2nd Movement = 66
Verdi La Traviata Act II = 82
Rossini William Tell Overture = 84
Rossini Barber of Seville Overture (Letter A) = 88
Rossini Barber of Seville Overture (Letter B) = 110
Verdi Falstaff, Act III Part 1 = 120
Tchaikovsky 6, 3rd Movement = 120
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MEDIUM SPICCATO FAMILY
Mozart 41 1st movement = 76
Mozart 39, 1st movement = 78
Beethoven 3, 3rd movment = 87
Verdi Die Meistersinger, Act II = 90
Verdi Lohengrin, Act III Scene 3 = 90
Beethoven 9, 2nd movement = 90
Beethoven 7, 3rd movement = 90
Beethoven 3, 1st movement = 90
Mendelssohn 4, 4th movement = 96
Mozart 40, 1st movement = 108
Schubert 10, 4th movement = 108
Mendelssohn 4, 1st movement = 111
Beethoven 9, 4th movement m. 763 = 120
Mahler 5, Finale = 124
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HEAVY SPICCATO FAMILY
Wagner Die Walkure, Overture = 55
Mahler 2, 2nd movement = 60
Beethoven 7, 1st movement scales = 68
Brahms 1, 1st movement = 70
Beethoven 9, 4th movement Letter K = 83
Brahms 2, 1st movement = 96
Wagner Lohengrin, Act 1 Finale = 104
Brahms 2, 4th movement = 106
Wagner Die Walkure, Act II = 108
Beethoven 5, 3rd movement = 114
Schubert 10, 3rd movement = 114
Mahler 5, 2nd movement = 120
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SAUTILLE/FLEX STROKE FAMILY
Haydn 88, 1st movement = 132
Smetana Bartered Bride, Overture = 140 (all notes are active, so it’s more of an on-the-string stroke)
Mozart 41, 4th movement = 140
Mozart 35, 4th movement = 140
Haydn 88, 4th movement = 144
Beethoven 9, final prestissimo = 146
Beethoven 3, 4th movement = 152
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@pasqualetto_bass Жыл бұрын

Awesome playing and explanation. The thud on 0:55 is such a rich detail!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 5 ай бұрын

Awesome - thank you!

@miguelvelazquezmatija7478 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks thanks man!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 5 ай бұрын

You're more than welcome - thanks for watching!

@gailukatch402 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for including german! It makes this series a great resource for me, as is the rest of your channel!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 5 ай бұрын

So glad to hear - thank you!

@mensemey8553 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!! May God bless you. I wish you got 2 millions views on KZfaq. All the best. Take care!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Menmnb!

@karlmalm8495 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dennis! I've recently started to pin down references or guidelines about bow tightness. Like, what would be the first technique/playing style not working when it's too tight and too loose. Just to speed up the process of realizing where you ended up on the parameter every morning when screwing it. I'd be very interested in your view about it. Many thanks for you doing these series!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Karl. That's a great question, and I don't think I can answer that as quickly as I'd like. The parameter of how tight to tighten the bow is a result of decades of playing so many different styles of music. The tightness of the hair is very important in the response of the stroke. Generally, I like to keep the hair as loose as possible for the music I need to play. When I'm doing detache or legato, I keep it very loose, but not so loose that the stick grinds into the hair. I keep the hair loose enough that "I can push the stick into the hair with a lot of weight". I don't want the stick to go easily to the hair, so I basically find out how much force I'll exert during the piece, and loosen it up to JUST tighter than that. I hope that makes sense. I want the hair to be able to wrap around the string for a lot of contact. If I'm doing heavy spiccato, I tighten it up more, although there's really no chance I'll be hitting the stick to the hair while at the frog. The common issue I see is players over-tightening their bows so there is almost no spring in the stick any more, and the hair tends to skim across the string. I suggest keeping it as loose as possible for the needed bow stroke. I hope that helps - you'll learn a lot through experimentation. good luck and let me know if you learn anything through it! Best, Dennis

@stevelivinghouse3378 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for doing this! I really wish this existed when I started to learn spiccato about 10 years ago. One suggestion would be to let us know which of the volumes the associated exercise is in. Thanks again!

@incrediblyusefulexercises 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Steve - thank you very much for this - it's a great idea! I hadn't thought of that at all. Once I cover all of the exercises, I'll be having some livestreams of straight playthroughs of the volumes, so you all can see when they appear. Otherwise, that really would be helpful to say where they are. Thank you for that. Happy new year to you and yours, and I hope you're well. Dennis

@lesliebaker 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Dennis, I really appreciate your approach! You are my current teacher even tho' we've not met. Here's my question about the spiccato exercise as written on your Incredibly Useful Exercises book: Why are there bow changes in the middle of the 6/8, 4/4 & 6/16 bars? Why & how would we do those? Thanks, Leslie

@incrediblyusefulexercises 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Leslie - thank you for the feedback, and I'm honored to be an absentee mentor. The bow changes you mention, I'm embarrassed to say, are actually misprints. I can't remember why I put them in in the first place, but there they are. They're at the top of the punch list for the second edition. You're right - just keep them down bows. They're still jarring on my eyes when I see them. I appreciate the notice, though! Happy new year to you and yours, and I hope you're well! Dennis

@lesliebaker 3 жыл бұрын

@@incrediblyusefulexercises I had a feeling they might have been misprints. Glad I reached out to you to get the real story!!