Hello my people Steemit, it is an immense pleasure for me to present in this opportunity a basic exercise of gymnastics and warm up of the left hand for those students and performers of the mandolin.

As you should know, all musical activity requires a warm-up or preliminary preparatory activity that serves to prepare the body to deal with or confront some passages-musical works that contain some difficulty. In this case, it is about helping the body and specifically the left hand of the mandolinists to get in tune and thus undertake the daily work and study in a way that does not cause them traumas or muscular ailments and fatigue, which is very frequent when the work is done directly without a preparation or gymnastics.

For this, you will be able to appreciate in this audio-video an exercise - performed by me - of the European Violinist Rudolph Kreutzer (1766-1831). This exercise, initially is contained in a Method for violin of Forty and Two Studies that the same Kreutzer conceived like part of the basic exercises to create a system of dynamic fingering. The exercise should do, initially in a slow tempo and, little by little, increase the speed until you get to master it in a more or less fast tempo. In this case, it is about preparing and conditioning the left hand in a kind of warm-up that helps to go through the mandolin's fingerboard, in a light and flexible way from the 1st position, 2nd and 3rd position.

This will create in the performer some flexibility when addressing or confronting some passages or musical pieces of greater scope, as I said before.

In addition to the audio-video, the same exercise will be able to appreciate it in a written musical part that contains the fingering that I do. In this way, they can have a much clearer idea-understanding of how the study works. The exercise is written in the key of C Major and is really short, about 25 measures, and should be studied with the technique of pick up (down and up), in all its extension, with great concentration, keeping fingers very close to the diapason, moving, these, in an orderly and precise way, avoiding the sudden movements of the left hand. Finally, I want to remind you that daily and constant work is the key to achieving the best results when executing and interpreting any type of musical-work-passage.