Re: Trills?
I had to resurrect this thread. I was doing a google search for trill exercises for mandolin and this one came up.
Although Sevcik is presented as a book for trill exercises for violin, it is used to correct your intonation when starting to play the violin since there are no frets on the instrument. This is a very traditional way of learning. (plus of course it's a trill exercise)
I totally agree with Martin "the violin exercises referenced are no doubt useful, they are presumably more difficult to transfer to mandolin than in their native instrument."
In the "Salvator Leonardi methode for banjolin", I found great exercises (at least in my opinion) for trills - which are a perfect co-ordination between left and right hand movement. Exercises # 74 (shake preparatory exercise) and # 142 (exercises for the shake). If any one is interested I'll post these in PDF. Yes these are very similar to Sevcik, but the fact these are written for mandolin makes you feel better (coming from a violin background).
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