ŠEVČĺK'S VIOLIN TECHNIC Op. I PART 2b

Exercise 16
   Change of position from the first to the third should be only controlled by the arm, without bending the wrist and without reaching forward or backward with the thumb.
Exercise 17
  When stretching, strain of the hand muscles will be avoided if fingers stop the string lightly.
Exercise 18
   In this important exercise, use is made of the independence of the fingers acquired through the previous exercises.  First detache in the middle of the bow.  Tempo: andante, fingers placed lightly.  Then, ahways at the same speed, 4 notes slurred (middle), then 8 notes (whole bow), and then 16 notes (whole bow).  There should be no increase in tempo until the several bars of the exercise can be produced with pure intonation, and the shifting of semitone intervals can be fingered effortless and without strain.  Only then may the speed be doubled, with fingers gliding closely over the strings.  First slur 8 notes, whole bow.
Exercise 19
  First, the double bars are to be played detache; then slurs to quarter bars, half and full bars.  Correct
faulty intonation by tracing single tones.
Exercise 20
To be practised as 27, book 1.
Exercise 21
  The left arm is pulled in slightly more towards the middle of the body so that the hand is poised above the fingerboard, but this must not produce overstretching.
Exercise 22
  First to be practised broken up, in quavers, then in double stoppings, one bar at a time.
  If intonation is faulty, double stoppings must be broken up and intonation corrected.
Exercise 23
   First detache, then one, two, four and eight groups of triplets slurred together.
Exercises 24 and 25
  Care should be taken to exclude jerks from the gliding movements of the hand which is worked by
the arm.  No separate thumb movements.
Exercise 26
To be practised as 21, book 1.
Exercise 27
Four, eight and sixteen notes to be slurred.
Exercise 28
  First detache, then slurs.  Correct faulty intonation by tracing single tones.
Exercise 29
To be practised as 27, book 1.
Exercises 30 to 41
   (5th to 7th position, same principles as in previous exercises).