This is a scale book of unprecedented scope. Simon Fischer has developed an entirely new approach in which, using the traditional ways of practising scales only as a point of departure, he focuses on numerous often-neglected aspects of the violinist's technique. For every element he has designed routines that sensitise the ear, stimulate the mind and build the playing apparatus of the violinist. This is a scale book that gives you more than just fingerings! It also gives you clear, simple ways to build - or to improve - the techniques required to play scales and arpeggios well and easily.

It is all simply written-out, excellent practice, so that whatever you play in it, your scale-playing just gets better and better all the time.

The wealth of thought-provoking exercises encourages violinists to re-evaluate their practice - developing the playing skills of violinists at all levels from intermediate to soloist. 206 pages.