EXERCISES & GROOVES • Workshop No. 10 • Etude

is a collection of 10 videos to serve as companion pieces to .

Workshop No. 10 • Etude

This tenth and final workshop is the most challenging of all the workshops in the series. A chop etude has been written to combine many of the notations into musical groove-based form as an example of how they can be used together. The etude is 16 bars in total, composed of four 4-bar phrase variations which all begin in a similar manner. Each 4-bar phrase can be practiced on its own, played sequentially, or in an order of the player's choosing.

Players will have a chance to play along at different tempos with each notated phrase from Exercise 10 in the Notation is overlaid on the video during demonstrations.

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creates and establishes a standardized music notation to read and write the percussive bowed string technique known as chopping, bringing it up to speed with the current playing practice. Created by Casey with Oriol Saña, and in consultation with other recognized choppers, the goal is that a standardized system such as this will enable players and composers a method to share and communicate their musical ideas more easily across the globe.

Over 70 minutes of total content, this workshop series demonstrates all 10 notated found within . Each workshop focuses on a specific technique/bow stroke from the included . 

Created in an additive manner, each exercise builds on the one preceding and gets progressively more challenging, finishing with a 16-bar etude using nearly all the notation