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Ghost Note Exercise using Guide Tones
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4 comments
Tim
@Alexander: it’s actually not two schools but complementary techniques. By lifting the finger after playing a fingered note, what you do with the bow is muted. So it helps your muted bow sound to do this. But it’s not necessary.
So I would recommend starting with bow only and then later adding the left hand trick.
Alexander Koning
Hi Tim, great video, thank you.
I noticed there seem to be two ‘schools’ in ghost-note playing. I see some players muting the ghost-note with their lefthand finger on the string. Is any of the two techniques better? I can imagine ghost-bowing to be more practical on open strings rather than muting the string with your finger.
Petra Friedrich
I’m looking forward for a guide-tone video – couldn’t find one yet…. 🙂
Tim
You are right! I am using August as Review Month where everything is revisited and will share a guide tone video then. On the way! T