Everyone knows the basic strong-weak p-i alternation.
Done on open strings, it makes a nice warm-up exercise. As a variation, I
tried tapping my foot along with the exercise, but with reversed
articulation:
right hand: loud soft loud soft
right foot: soft loud soft loud
and found that it is very hard to do. Even simplifications at dead slow
metronome settings are very hard.I wonder whether the connection to music teachers who admonish against tapping the foot is obvious.
