Violin Techniques - Playing with a Straight Bow (parallel to the bridge)
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2019
- Professor of Violin Julia Bushkova teaches the basics of playing with the straight bow.
0:36 Your position in front of the mirror
1:06 Assisting the correct arm movement
2:55 'Three-part-arm-movement' for straight bow
3:18 'Four-part-arm-movement' for straight bow
3:56 'Responsive' wrist
5:26 Learning how it looks
6:23 Physical memory
Thank you so much, Professor of Violin Julia Bushkova! We are so grateful that you share your knowlegde and wisdom with us all. You change the lives of many violinists from all over the world, who would otherwise not have access to this high level of teaching.
Beautiful words, I agree 100 x 100! Mme Bushkova is super!
Thank you for a succinct yet detailed video on proper bow arm technique. Bravo!
I have a violin teacher who is great but your explanations equally help me to improve. When I have a problem, I look at your videos because I always find an explanation I understand and that helps me grow. You are an amazing professor!
I need this so much! Thank you for your great tips! After playing (as an amateur) for years, I have developed very bad habits, as far as bowing goes!
I will study this over and over.
0:36 Your position in front of the mirror
1:06 Assisting the correct arm movement
2:55 'Three-part-arm-movement' for straight bow
3:18 'Four-part-arm-movement' for straight bow
3:56 'Responsive' wrist
5:26 Learning how it looks
6:23 Physical memory
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I’m amazed at how short, concise and incredibly helpful your videos are to a beginner! I’ve been watching so many videos and I always end up here if I want to get it right!
The best part is that my videos help on any and every level :)
Thank you very much for this lessson. It’s really valuable for me. I never found so clear explanations. It’s a great present. Thanks a lot!
Beautifully described. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for all of your very helpful tutorials.
I am glad it was helpful!
This video provides the most fundamental techniques of right arm movement while bowing. I was struggling to keep the bow straight since a long time and this video helped me immensely. Thank you so much!
This is so excellently detailed! No one explained straight bowing so usefully!!
Glad to hear that!
What a marvelously knowledgeable and confident instructor and guide. However Madam Bushkova, mirrors are not as kind to some of us as they would be to such a sublime beauty as yourself. For we aesthetically challenged mortals, i suggest a wavy glass door.
Thankyou maestra!
omg thank you so much, my finger on my left arm is broken at the moment, and I'm trying to fix my bow pulling, thank you so much for this lesson, it really help so much!!!
Thank you, prof. Bushkova! You've become my favorite online violin teacher. You bring a heightened level of detail to every aspect of violin playing but are always able to explain it such that it makes perfect sense.
Amazing, thank you for sharing with us.
I stumbled upon this video about an hour ago and this helped me SO much! I’ve done so many exercises for my bow but nothing has seemed to work. I moved my arm in the steps you showed in the video a few times and my bow got much straighter and I feel more comfortable bowing now.
Indeed very helpful! Thanks for sharing these tips :)
Thank you! This was really helpful!
Thank you so much for sharing Professor Julia, very helpful indeed.
Thank you for making this video. Your demonstration is excellent!
So clearly explained. Thank you
Wonderful, as always. Very well exaplained and demonstrated. Thank you!!
This exercises are very helpful!
Thanks!
Excellent instructions!
Outstanding. Спасибо большое, Профессор!
This has been very helpful to me - thank you very much! keep-up these nice videos !!!
Excellent. No matter what she teaches. She is the greatest! Everythng is so much useful. I m catching up with the violin after 30 years...
Prof Bushkova,you are a great pedagogue.
I follow all your teaching. The only thing I haven t done yet, is putting rice inside the violin! 😄 But I will, I promise!
Best wishes from Uruguay.
Thank you very much.
And yes to rice :))
Thanks, for confirming I was right that my wrist is the problem for me not playing straight bow
This video was really helpfull!! Thank you!
Thankyou for the bow arm technique
Professor Bushkova. You are amazing!!!
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you! 😃
This helped me play better thank you so much
Thank you teacher Bushkova. You give very good Technical information.
Thank you teacher 😍
great techniques thank you
Thanks! I found the mirror monitoring approach to really help me. I could see the arc (or circle plane) that the bow must be circled the violin as it goes across all strings (seeing where my fist was in front of me particularly). The second thing I discovered even though I figured out how to get the bow more or less straight I found that I found that the bow angled off slightly bowing from the frog to the tip at the tip of the bow. With the mirror by experiment I found that if I could correct this slight movement with my wristh. The secondary effect was to keep my bow from drifting from the bridge to the fingerboard and vice versa. I probably have a few more months of monitoring to get this down perfectly but I am ON MY WAY!
Very well explanations..
Thank you very much. I forgot about my wrist. Now i understand what i need to correct. Very helpful!
Thank you so much!
Best explanation on UA-cam by so far
Glad it was helpful!
It was very helpful. Another superb one in a series of brilliant videos..Thanks for sharing your knowledge generously.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much
Thanks so much, I need to really work on these body mechanics because when I play the angles of my bow keep changing instead of staying parallel to the bridge. You’re such a great teacher. Thanks for recording this video.
Yes this is true! The angle looks very different (not straight, yet correct) when you look down your violin.
Dearest Julia, my daughter watches your videos, she loves them and is learning a lot this summer since she doesn't go to conservatory again until September. Your explanation are do good, so traight to the point.
Actually we found you when we were looking for which violin to buy. Her 4/4, so your video about how to choose a violin and the other one about the bow came in very handy and right at the perfect moment.
So thank you again! Big hug from Spain!!!
Thank you for your comment and for subscribing! I am glad to be of help
You always release the new videos around midnight on Saturday night (California time zone) - but you’re supposed to live in Texas ? 😀 anyway, it works for me...I live in California. Thanks again teacher for another great lesson ! At some point, you’d have a lot of students around the world, whose owe you some great favors - smart...😃
Thanks
Thank you so much, my bow gots straight right after I applied the technique🥺 I used to think that my bow is straight because I look at it on my angle... the tips are easy and very helpful
God bless you
Thank you very much it’s really helpful, but I have problem loos focus on bow when focus on my fingers
1:18
2:31 3 step exercise
3:15 4 step exercise
3:53 wrist dynamic response
4:55
Very helpful video, thank you so much. Could you please also explain why exactly it is important to have the bow parallel to the bridge, as that seems to be taken as a given but the rationale is not spelled out. Presumably it is about ensuring a consistent sound point throughout the bow? On a different subject, some people also talk about thinking of a circular motion, including at the tip when you change from down bow to up bow. Is that a useful concept once you have the parallel motion well drilled?
Biomechanics of the the right arm for violin. Watching an amazing athlete is often described as poetry in motion. If I had originated this method I will call it Pushkin poses for the bowing arm. Sorry, that was pathetically cliche. Great lesson!
Wow, thank you!
Wonderfully enlightening! Thank you so much. My arm sometimes feels too short, and when I reach the tip of the bow, the tip of the bow won't stay parallel to the bridge. What can I do when this happens, so that my bow will stay straight all the way to the tip of the bow?
I have that same problem!
If your arm is too short, the "tip" of your bow should not be the real tip, but much lower. By "much," I mean and inch or maybe even close to two inches lower from where you currently try to play. If your bow is quite heavy (over 62 grams), you can also change the place where you hold the bow -- move your hand to the thumb grip (rather than stay at the very frog). This way, you would use more of the tip without straining. Either one is a good choice.
@@ViolinClassUSA Thank you so much for explaining that. It helps a lot.
This is so helpful to me, a beginner. I struggle with bow placement every time I practice. I will use your video as a guide every day to help me.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks professor
I have a miror but my position was not clear in front
My elbow was too high
My wrist is often not reactive ( especially with stress of audition in public)
The final step moving the shoulder slightly forward I do very well to correct at the end the parallelism and the wrist angle “as if I would open a door in front of me”
A professor found that my index finger on the bow was too straight and blocked my wrist ( when stressed i think to relax my index).
To reach the spike of the bow this professor let me begin by the spike and opening the shoulder with forearm a bit behind and “giving weight” to the bow. That seems paradoxal to have the shoulder forwards “opening the door” and the forarm stretched behind to reach the extreme spike..everyday I’m doing sevcik exercise in front of a large mirror on the wall of my Versailles palace ;-)
She is the Professor of Professors Of Violin . They go to her to learn.
A straight bow is violinistic elegance .
Muy instructivo, podría ser en castellano? Gracias
Violinmaking Bents Space
Thank you. Do you have workshops for mature players beginners intermediate?
Unfortunately, there is no time for you me to do those. Thanks for your comments and for your obvious interest in learning the violin.
Thank you very much! But my height is 1.82m and my arm is longer than the bow, so how could this technic be adaptable for people with long arm?
Lucky you - you can work so much less and get the same result!
How many times should one practice this exercise on each string?
it is up to you. Set the number to accomplish your goal. (but no more than 10x)
@@ViolinClassUSA thank you for your time. It's appreciated.
How did they do it whenever there wasn’t any mirrors???
You can just look at the bow and get it that way.
am i the only one who thinks this woman is gorgeous?
Ma'am, how long should i use the strings? Should they be replaced frequently? 😊
You’d replace the strings when you start hearing bad sounds, if you don’t notice anything different, why bother - save your money...
It depends on how much you play every day and what kinds of strings you use.
Never play with straight bow unless your arms are very long!
No great old master blocked the upper arm movement. If you force the bow to go straight you will stop the upper arm movement. Upper arm movement needs to finish it’s movement to the end (to the tip of the bow) even at the moment when lower arm opens up, (both lower and upper arm need to finish the movement) otherwise the sound changes from the tip to the frug, because different muscles are being used. We want unified sound, not the sound which weakens towards the tip.
Igor, you are very right that, on the higher level of tone production ("the old masters"), the main thing is to stay at the same contact point/sounding point. People with shorter arms would not draw the bow parallel to the bridge, naturally. However, it is an introductory video to the overall motions of the upper-arm-forearm - so I call it this way. If you watched it, you know that I am talking about the same things as you wrote in your comments (both lower and upper arm need to finish the movement, etc.)
Nice to hear from you and thank you!
Oh my god this is the exact thing I that was ruining my practice. The bow does not look straight when you're looking at it while playing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!