How To Practise Scales And Arpeggios? Options

[SuperBB87]

Hello,can anybody suggest me some good and effective ways for practising scales and arpeggios for violin?Thank you very much.

[violinist]

A good book for scales is Paul Harris Improve Your Scales Grade 5. It's a really good book. It gives different exercises and you can make your own compositions in each key.

But HOW (HOW, HOW, HOW!!!) do you know whether you have done them/these exercises correctly? Do you ever check the first attempt against a tuner (first before proceeding further) for example for 100% correct intonation??? OR, do yo just rely on your ears, hoping for say, 90% accuracy?

What if you have only have a reasonably good sense of but not perfect pitch? (Teacher seems to expect the ears to develop as you go along but surely they don't unless she is doing Kodaly or something like that every week or has already been singing for many years like me!) My daughter expects me to hear her (from the kitchen where I'm working or otherwise, struggling with her little brother!). She relied on my ears - scary... :( Scary, I tell you, because if I get it wrong, she will tell her teacher, it wasn't her fault! :angry: ;) :lol:

Well it's something that develops over time. My teacher says i'm lucky because i've always been able to play in tune and if ever i am slightly flat or sharp i can hear it and adjust accordingly.

[Tess]

Well it's something that develops over time. My teacher says i'm lucky because i've always been able to play in tune and if ever i am slightly flat or sharp i can hear it and adjust accordingly.

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Yeah, she knows all right. I discovered THAT only recently when I followed her to a few of her lessons. He likes her to think for herself. He asked her and she could tell when she'OK/a bit too flat/a bit too sharp... but at home, she behaves like a teenager... rush, rush, rush! Well, if she rushes so much, how come she takes a whole hour to practise... I don't get it. ;) I think it's dangerous to rush because she's not really listening to her scales! But then she's only 8 so I forgive her for the moment. She claims she only rushes on scales and arpeggios as they are "boring!" :(