Each Caprice contains a lesson to learn! The 24 Caprices are a training cycle even for a beginning violinist.

I discovered a system which will help you master the caprices as well as Paganini as long as you follow the training cycle.

If you start with Caprice 16 and follow the training cycle clockwise, using the fingering and bowing techniques I am implementing, you will master the Caprices with ease in no time. If the pieces are learned and practiced in this order and played with the correct fingering, it will become immediately apparent to an advanced player that these new fingerings are consistent and vital. The full song circle of etudes can be memorized and played easily once the player gains awareness of this new technique.

It is important to remember that in order to learn the correct technique, it is imperative to learn and practice the Caprices in the correct order that Paganini originally intended!

It is my suggestion for beginners to break the Caprices into three levels and start learning them eight at a time; then when one feels comfortable enough to give a performance, the Caprices should be performed in two parts: 1–12 and 13–24.

It is also imperative to understand that one cannot go back and start playing from the beginning without taking at least 30 minute break. In other words, keep playing the Caprices, starting from any of the Caprices in a forward direction until the end, or if need be take at least a 30 minute break and then start from the beginning.

A level one individual is one who plays 8 Caprices, starting with Caprice #16.

Level two violinists should play the next 8 Caprices, starting from Caprice #17.

And level three should be able to play the next 8 Caprices, starting from Caprice #1, which completes all 24 Caprices.