May 19, 2016 | Play in Tune
This episode of Violin Lounge TV gives you a good warm up exercise that loosens up your left hand fingers and trains you to move them independently. This is an important exercise that will help you develop a good left hand technique. These exercises are useful for...
May 13, 2016 | Play in Tune, Start to Play
Before I explain how you can play in tune on the violin right from the start, I will first explain why you would want that. This video is inspired be an e-mail conversation I had with one of my followers. He wrote that his wish was to first learn as many notes and...
Mar 25, 2016 | Play in Tune
This video is about how to practice double stops and play them in tune. A double stop is when you play two notes (or more) at the same time on the violin or viola. These notes can be fingered or open strings. Here are 3 steps to practice double stops: Practice the two...
Mar 4, 2016 | Play in Tune, Position Play
This video teaches you the first 3 octave major scale that you can learn on the violin and the viola. On the violin this is the G major 3 octave scale starting on the open G string and on the viola this is the C major 3 octave scale starting on the open C string. In...
Jan 27, 2016 | Play in Tune, Start to Play
In this video I’m going to explain something a lot of beginners struggle with: placing your second and third finger close enough together to play the semitone in tune. A lot of beginners play the second finger too low or the third finger too high or both. In the...
Sep 17, 2015 | Play in Tune
You don’t want to depend only on what your teacher tells you in the lesson. You must be able to check if you are in tune yourself when practicing. In this episode of Violin & Viola TV I give you three ways to check if you are playing in tune on the violin or...
