Do you practice the one-minute bowing exercise?

Mary, Georgia the state not the country. What is the value of it?

• Thanks for your question. I’ve practiced long bows, but not the one-minute bow.
• It’s a good exercise in bow economics.
• Practicing long bows helps your overall bow sound.
• Mark off the bow into quarters with tape.
• First practice bowing in each quarter of the bow.
• Then practice long bows, aka whole bows. Play with the speed. Break it up with some throwaway bows.
• This alone is really valuable.
• The one-minute bow is a bit ridiculous. Which means I definitely want to try this!
• We’ll practice it incrementally.
• Start doing an 4-second bow.
• Once you can do that, keep doing longer time lengths in multiples of four: 8, 12, 16, 20…until you get to 60.
• This is the essence of micro-practice.
• As you can see…I can’t get that great of a sound with the OMB.

Further learning

This micro-lesson is an excerpt from an office hours webinar I gave on September 16, 2020. View the entire live-stream with indexed questions here.

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