Welcome to our forum. A Message To Our New and Prospective Members . Check out our Forum Rules. Lets keep this forum an enjoyable place to visit.
Currently working on errors from the latest (SimplePress) forum update. Many issues have been resoled and others are being worked on. Thank you for your patience.
Log In
Register
Topic RSS
(211 votes) 
Regulars
Offline
You know far more than me !!
Regulars
Offline
@Katie L Looks excellent. Your index finger pressure seems good--should be just enough to catch the string & then a quick release--looks like you have it.
Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.
Regulars
Offline
Thank you for watching and the feedback Sharon. I think I will just practice doing that for a while. Started a new piece today - gymnophedie - in d major and nice and slow very slow in fact. Good practice for bow control.
Regulars
Offline
New books for my b day ! Will hopefully help with my terrible note and sight reading !
Regulars
Offline
Happy new books!
and bday!
Regulars
Offline
@Katie L -
Hope you had a WONDERFUL Birthday!
Those look like great books - did they come with CDs? Listening to the music while you read it can help with sight reading.
I really enjoyed your staccato video!
I've been thinking about the differences between staccato and spiccato, lately, and also that we should be just as at ease doing up-bow staccato - as well as with down-bow staccato. Drives me crazy so many names for different bow strokes & some have very small differences, so I have a terrible time keeping track of which short bow stroke stops, which decays & which might be lifted off the string.
Prof Fitzpatrick has a video with a perspective on basic staccato worth looking at - makes it seem very simple!
"How to play Up & Down Bow Staccatos on the Violin"
- Emily
Regulars
Offline
Brilliant Emily I’ll watch that I hadn’t even thought about up bow. I had a great birthday thanks !! And thank you abitrusty ! 🎂
Also I have a new piece it’s Gymnopedie no1 it’s really tough but I think I’m making progress.
Regulars
Offline
Been practicing scales and Gymnopedie no 1 .. I’m trying to conserve the bow and after watching the below i’m no where near the frog so need to try and do that. But … im a tiny bit happy with my vibrato as I haven’t been putting it in my practice .. Anyway here is where I am with Gymnopedie no1 I know I’m off on my intonation .
https://youtu.be/3vn93SCFqhs
Regulars
Offline
YAY! VIBRATO!
Regulars
Offline
Yeah although…. Can’t say it enhances the sound ! 🤣 but ….. mini break through just putting it in ! Need to try and speed it up maybe this piece was a good idea ! Thank you for watching Emily
Regulars
Offline
Katie M
Looks good, your doing good.
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
Albert Sammons
Regulars
Online
Very nice, Katie. It's a great choice of tune and the long notes are a great way to introduce vibrato.
The original is usefully in D, as it is the most convenient key for the violin (guitar adaptations are transposed to E). You could play that first long A on the D string with your pinky, instead of open A, and give that some vibrato too.
Andrew
Verified human - the ignominy!
Regulars
Offline
Thanks for watching Mark and Gordon.. so you mean the very first note ? Because that’s just me and my bad habit of getting the bow to the right place to start. Can I share the music on here ?
Regulars
Offline
Also is that vibrato way too slow ? I have no idea how fast I’m supposed to do it ( bearing in mind I can’t actually do it any faster but at least I’d know ) more practice laterz 👋
Regulars
Online
Katie M said
so you mean the very first note ?
No, it's the 7th note - it's quite a long A.
Yes, you're vibrato is too slow, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
Remember I once said try to practise fast vibrato by playing E on the A string with your second finger and resting your wrist on the rib of the violin.
Andrew
Verified human - the ignominy!
Regulars
Offline
Really nice movement on the vibrato, hand moves as a pivot on top of the wrist, wrist doesnt go backwards and forwards, bob on.
Cant beat a sunny day
Offline
Wow, you're not only practicing Staccato but you're practicing Flying Staccato which is way more difficult. 🙂
Great ambitions. Keep up the great work.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
Regulars
Offline
Ok will do Gordon I’m excited to do vibrato on 4th finger so I’ll start practicing that in this piece. And thanks for watching Stringy I’ll keep practicing ! It’s weird I find if I leave my vibrato out for a few weeks then when I go back to it it feels like it has got a tiny bit better. And Fiddlerman not sure about flying stacatto I need to Google that I didn’t mean to do that hmmmm thanks for watching and letting me know !!
Regulars
Offline
I’ve gone off piste and started learning Once in Royal David’s City and O Little Town of Bethlehem. Both in f major which is handy so been having a go at that scale ! Also having to put my own slurs in! Going to concentrate on smooth string crossings I think
Regulars
Offline
The way to practice string crossing is to rest the bow on say the g string, and roll your hand round to the a string, using a slow stroke on the g, then stop completely roll down to the a then complete the stroke, the movement becomes second nature if you do it enough, same technique for any string, it works, some good exercises in wohlfhart for it.
Cant beat a sunny day
1 Guest(s)
