Once you're using the big muscles to shift, it's time to improve your aim. Here's a magical way to do that:
- Deep breath, float your shelf
- Counterbalance: let shoulders slide down in back
- Shoulders down in back means arms float up in front of you
- Toss violin onto your floating shelf
- With floating shelf and arms, feel like you could hula hoop with your pelvis
- Find your forehead
OK, now you're ready. Put your "forehead mind" on your stomach. Now play 0-3-1, shifting into 3rd position (1 goes where the 3 usually goes) with the big muscles. As you let your armpit/elbow come closer to shift you into 3rd position, can you let your stomach stay quiet?
There it is, simple as that. Part 3 of Elegant Shifting will have to wait for a while, because I need to talk about finger motion first. Stay tuned!