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Zen Bowing Exercises – Lesson 2 – Frog and Tip

Taught by Vi Wickam

February 18, 2013

Fiddle • Violin • Advanced • Beginner • Intermediate • Intermediate+

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Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam of Loveland, CO has been performing fiddle and writing music since before he could read. Along with his brothers and dad, The Wickam Family Band performed regularly on Blinky’s Fun Club, a nationally syndicated TV program. Vi’s fiddling can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including two of his own. He’s played with many different bands throughout the United States, and even briefly in England. Among his fiddling honors, Vi has won the Colorado State Championship twice, and been a finalist four times at the Grand Masters’ Fiddler Championship. He has judged fiddle contests throughout the US, and directed regional and state level fiddle contests. Read More About Vi→

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  1. DocWallace says

    May 18, 2013 at 2:01 am

    Nice to see a good old-fashioned Franco-Belgian violin school collé bowing exercise here on the Talent Forge! Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Joshua Bell all practiced this same exercise. My teacher had me do it with Kreutzer etude #7. . . starting at the tip for the first note, moving to the frog for the second. Great for developing balance and control! Well taught, Vi!

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    • Vi Wickam says

      May 18, 2013 at 6:03 pm

      Thanks, Doc. I had no idea that it was such a fancy bowing exercise.:)I just knew that it really worked well.

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  2. ozarkmountainfiddler says

    October 22, 2014 at 4:53 pm

    I practiced this excercise along with lesson 1, and then I played a breakdown afterwards, and could tell a huge difference in the way I bowed. I had so much more control…thank you so much for posting these!

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    • Vi Wickam says

      October 22, 2014 at 5:00 pm

      That’s fantastic! You are very welcome.

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Zen Bowing Exercises

  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 1 - Long Slow Notes
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 2 - Frog and Tip
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 3 - String Changes - Low High
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 4 - String Changes - High Low
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 5 - String Changes - Middle High Middle Low
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 6 - String Changes - High Middle Low
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 7 - Josef Gingold's 5 Minute Bow
  • Zen Bowing Exercises - Lesson 8 - Master Bow Distribution

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