Practice guides

Practise your part with the orchestra

How to rehearse the works in our shop with the orchestra around you: which part to take, what to slow down, and what to loop.

Bach Double, second violin: practise with the orchestra

How to practise the second violin solo of the Bach Double, BWV 1043, with the first solo and the strings playing around you, at your own tempo.

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The Bach Double for Suzuki students

The Bach Double sits at the end of Suzuki Violin Book 4 and Book 5. How to practise either part at home with the orchestra, at a tempo you choose.

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Bach's Concerto for Four Harpsichords: rehearse alone

Four harpsichords rarely meet. Practise any part of Bach's BWV 1065 while the app plays the other three and the strings, hands separately if you like.

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Brandenburg 5 for flute, violin and harpsichord

How to practise the flute, violin or harpsichord part of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the other soloists and the strings, at your tempo.

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Bach Double, second movement: practising the Largo

The Largo ma non tanto of the Bach Double: how to shape its long lines over the strings, with the other solo and the orchestra playing, at your tempo.

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Why we built Synchestra

A cancelled concert in 2003, Saint-Saëns in Brussels Cathedral in 2004, and how Synchestra builds each work so musicians can rehearse with the orchestra.

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