It’s “A”-bout time! Hi everyone! We’re back with another article about the fingering hand. This article will cover the notes on the A string of the violin. Here you will learn about the names of the notes corresponding to the Don’t Fret finger locator system. For example, yellow, red, blue, and orange. Remember that the […]
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Good times ahead! This article is going to be centered primarily around finger exercises and a video to help you play along. The goal of these exercises is to help you get comfortable with using your fingers to make notes on the violin, as well as memorize where your fingers are placed. Additionally, these exercises
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D-Place Hi friends! We’re back with another article about the fingering hand. This article will cover the notes on the D string of the violin. Here you will learn about the names of the notes corresponding to the Don’t Fret finger locator system. Recommended Reading: Where To Put Your Fingers On The Violin For example:
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First position on the violin First and foremost, I want you to understand that this will be called First Position. Simply log this away in your brain. If you’re like me and you research everything about everything you want to do, you’ve probably come across people sliding up and down the neck of the violin.
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Play it, then say it Hi everyone! What I do here at Musilesson has a method to the madness. I like to teach you how to do things, then name what you’re doing. Right now, I’m going to talk to you about Détaché bowing, Staccato bowing, Legato bowing, and Tenuto. It’s important to know these
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Separate and alternate bowing It’s time! It’s time to practice changing strings. The main lesson will be in the video provided, but I want to lay out what you will be doing. Remember that all of your bows will be separate and alternating. In other words, your first bow will be down, your next will
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Science behind the fun Welcome back, friends! Now we get to talk about string levels! It’s exciting. There’s some geometry and science that goes into it, dealing with angles. So let’s dive right in! Levels Each string has it’s own angle at which you can place the bow and not hit other strings. There’s some
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Arco This is going to be a simple guide to playing the A string on your violin. I want you to experiment with both methods of sound production: pizzicato and arco. Make sure you are familiar with the proper technique and form for this, because we’re about to put it to use! Now that you’ve
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Pluck it up Next in our journey we are going to learn how to pizzicato. This one is pretty simple, so this article won’t be long. Remember that Pizzicato is when you pluck the violin strings with your bow hand instead of using the bow. In practical applications, most songs you will play will not
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The two main ways of playing your violin Next in our journey, we come to the basics of sound and the violin. Specifically, the two main ways we make sound on the instrument. In simple terms, we bow the strings, and we pluck the strings. We covered this in another article but here I focus
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