violin practice I thought it was time for another video showing the violin progress in the house. Fingering is tricky, but she’s really improving. There are so many things to remember with your form and your fingers and the strings and the positioning of certain fingers in certain places at certain times – I’m amazed…
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violin practice
Here’s the latest in our violin journey. E’s starting to learn how to use the fingers of her left hand, rather than just holding the violin at its shoulder. She brought home her first piece of sheet music, and we worked through the first line of it, trying to master the difficult coordination required in…
violin practice
We’ve moved from violin practice which consisted of just managing to hold the violin correctly in “rest” and “play” positions, to actually making contact between bow and violin. No music yet, although she does know the string names (I call them notes in the video) and she likes to make up her own tune. It’s…