![]() ![]() Your forearm should certainly be more tired after playing spiccato. Can you hear the difference? The spiccato notes should end with almost an aspirated sound, in contrast to the sharper, most distinct staccato playing. Play the same passage in staccato and then spiccato. Yet in both cases, there’s a drop of silence between each note as they’re both short notes. Although now they’re vibrating declines, which you’ll hear in the end of the note, it tails off, instead of stopping sharply. When the performer lifts the bow off the string when playing spiccato, there’s nothing to keep the strings from continuing to vibrate. Therefore, a staccato sound is a bit crisper and shorter than a spiccato sound. Because the bow stays on the string after a staccato stroke, it works to stop the vibration of the note. Hearing the distinction takes some practice. That’s why spiccato is considered a bouncing stroke, whereas staccato is not. While both techniques use the bow, the key difference between them is that the bow stays on the string when playing staccato, but comes off the string when playing spiccato. The composer often leaves the choice whether to use spiccato or staccato to the interpreter of the performance. The two techniques are so similar that they’re notated in compositions the same way – with a small dot above the note. ![]() The bowing techniques of staccato and spiccato are other ways to get a short, distinct note from a string instrument, but not so distinct as pizzicato. Here’s a short tutorial on left-hand pizzicato from Ray Chen. ![]() This is because you’re using your left hand to both stop and pluck the string. Right-hand plucking is more common, but left-hand pizzicato provides a uniformity of notes that the right hand can’t achieve. Last, you should also explore playing pizzicato with your left hand. But you can also use the tips of your fingers or pluck at a higher angle.
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