Challenges
First, fingered thirds can be hard to wrap your mind around if you aren’t used to them.
Second, this is a fast passage. But the real challenge with this passage is the fingering changes in order to make the passage even playable:
- switching the fingering from the usual thumb-2 1-3 pattern to thumb-3 1-4 mid passage
- and then switching to thumb-2 1-4 again in the same passage
- and adding in 0-1
- the double stops right before the arpeggio are very awkward
Practice Strategies
Some of the practice strategies that I’m using:
- trills
- playing at tempo in chunks, and gradually increasing the size of the chunks
- siren: good for maintaining shape throughout passage
- scales both directions
Random thought at 12:20 — Dwayne Johnson was the bad guy in Get Smart
Playthroughs at 18:20 and 19:05
