Here is a list of practice tips. The ones on the left are geared toward first-year players, and the ones on the right I have used with my second-year students. The first couple of beginning practice tips go up on the board early in the year; the bowing related ones come up when we start to combine the left hand notes with the bow. These give students a logical set of steps to take when presented with music that uses the bow and stopped notes. It is easy to forget how overwhelming this can be for a beginning string player, and these steps encourage students to break the music down into more manageable bits before putting it all together.
