Feb 5, 2015 | Beautiful Tone, Bowing Technique
How to Hold Your Bow when Playing with Weight This video gives you some tips to stop that superficial sound on the violin and create a beautiful full tone instead: In the video I show you the difference between Weight and Pressure first. If you want to know more about...
Jan 15, 2015 | Bowing Technique
In this episode we answer a question from viewer Sarah: Hi, I am realizing that to bow straight, your wrist, fingers and arm do things as you bow from tip to frog and visa versa. On most videos, you don’t get to see what the hand is doing – especially when the...
Dec 15, 2014 | Music Theory
Peter plays violin and viola and writes (freely translated from Dutch)… Is there are trick or a donkey’s bridge (we call mnemonics ‘donkey’s bridges’ in Dutch) to read in different clefs or is it just a matter of practicing? I hope you have a handy tip for me....
Dec 4, 2014 | Play in Tune, Rhythm
Do your left hand and right hand sometimes have a quarrel? In this episode you’ll see my hands quarreling with each other! R: You always play out of tune! L: You make a bad tone! R: That’s because you can’t do vibrato! L: You are always out of bow and you scratch and...
Nov 13, 2014 | Bowing Technique
pinky In your violin or viola lesson your teacher might have instructed you to make your pinky round and set it on top the bow. This is easier said than done. Loads of violin and viola players struggle with this. Pamela writes: I am learning to play beginning violin...
