Vladimir Gorbach teaches a technique lesson on practicing scales with a focus on planting and timing as a way to build control, speed, and tone quality. Framing the discussion is maintenance of tension and reflexive relaxation in practice at slow tempos. Despite the corny thumbnail of the video, this is an excellent look at detailed practice with a plan for future development and success. Although going through each tempo in full length is a bit long for a video it clearly shows us the type of dedicated practice it takes to slowly develop a refined and organized technique.
This lesson is presented by Tonebase and via their Youtube channel with the following description:
In this lesson, Vladimir Gorbach breaks down his approach to developing fast scales. When practicing scales, Gorbach aims to maintain control of the fingers at all times and therefore begins his study at an initially slow tempo. After walking through a brief warm up exercise and discussing rest and free stroke differences, Gorbach guides you step-by-step through the different levels of speeding up your scales. Play along and see what BPM you can reach with one, two, three, and four notes per beat.
