Mike Cirillo

@fiddlermike.com

I created these exercises for many reasons. I want to develop an intimate understanding of every scale degree and its relationship with the tonal center. I want to know where all these notes are on the fingerboard and make them effortlessly available. I want to improve efficiency. I want to refine tone and intonation.

These exercises also provide a strategically constrained environment for both discovering and strengthening areas of weakness. Most people, when facing technical challenges, often become tense. This is not helpful. These exercises allow one to practice cultivating a calm, relaxed, and focused inner state while leaning in to difficult technical challenges.

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