The Artist’s Studio for Strings
Shifting Development Studies – For VIOLIN
By Frank Spinosa and Harold Rusch
This comprehensive manual guides the advanced student to a thorough knowledge shifting. It helps aspiring professional string players overcome techniques problems and being faced with them in performance. Shifting ideas are introduced and classified into one of four general categories. Each category has its own set of formulas designed to perfect fluency, balance, and accuracy in moving from one position to another. Formulas are reinforced by practical application to specific etudes including Kreutzer, Mazas, Don’t, Fiorillo and Rode.