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Practice presents clear, practical and helpful ideas of how to improve passages in the shortest possible time, and how to untangle any difficulties by breaking them down into their basic, simple elements.
While Basics belongs on the music stand rather than on the book shelf, Practice can be kept on a table or chair nearby. With this book any players of any level - from student to professional - can find endless ways of moving their work up on to an entirely new level.

As well as being full of simple, straightforward explanations of how things work on the violin, and how to approach practice in general, Practice uses hundreds of short, carefully-selected examples from the key repertoire to illustrate different aspects of practice.
These show typical difficulties that occur in the normal course of playing, and serve as models for practising other passages of the same type.
The truly wonderful part begins once you start to put these individual practice methods together in your own combinations and in your own way. Then practising really does become infinitely varied and truly creative.
Armed with all these approaches to practising it is not possible ever to get stuck; instead all that ever happens is that you run out of practice-time.