These videos are so informative, thank you! We need more insight into the minds of world class musicians and how they stoke the flame of excellence and keep it ignited over the years and decades. Wonderful work!
This was a fantastic video. As a returning violinist (three years break due to medical reasons) this is incredibly helpful to getting me back into the swing of things. Thank you so much for posting this! :)
"Feel the weight of your instrument" Well, I'm a pianist, that might be a problem ahahahahahah jokes apart, this video was really motivating, thank you ♡
I'm a new violinist, aged 70. My wife has told me that she thinks I'm in love with Nicky! (She's not wrong 🤣) Every time she walks past and sees me watching one of her videos she smiles and says "Awwwww ......' These are fantastic learning aids. Thank you so much for posting them.
Thank you so much, I was having such a difficult time staying focused and not getting frustrated durning my practice time. I will definitely start applying your routine to my daily practice time!
Thank you so much for making those videos! This one in particular is very helpful. I wrote them down and will try to follow these principles when I practice. Having the right mindset when practicing is so important!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. What great advice. I must watch this several more times. As an adult amateur I can only hope to achieve a bit of what you are teaching, but what a worthwhile journey!!
Again your focus is on getting the mind and body in a calm state allowing focus. So smart and works so well. I am largely self-taught and have discovered this. However, I recommend some stretching exercises for hands and arms and body. 5 minutes did the trick. I have 2 violins, one a inexpensive strad and an expensive guarneri, both ring like a flower opening to the sun light. The cheap one does it best and so easy to know you have found gold. You are the first I can recall mentioning this very important aspect. Thanks for a beautiful list to use each day.
Hi Nicola, I just want to thank you for this video. I've written down all your steps into my journal and I read it everyday before practice. It's made such a huge improvement in how I feel and hopefully in how I sound 😁. I have been approaching and leaving my instrument with much more happiness. After completing a B.M and M.M followed by the unexpected circumstances of the world, I felt so stuck in my playing and almost wanted to give up. I feel like you collected all the good advice that different teachers give us and put it into one video which really simplifies things and makes practicing less intimidating. I'm excited to continue this routine..thank you thank you!!
Wow, this was very insightful! Thank you. I liked how you stressed on the attitude, I find it's so important when I practice to make sure 1. I am calm 2. I am concentrated. That allows me to have the patience, persistence and interest (!) to take the time and find the right note and the right sound, no matter how long it takes and how quickly I lose it again. Practice makes perfect, if it's the right type of practice.
Thanks Nicola, I play the mandolin and being tuned the same as the violin I am looking to upgrade from Irish and bluegrass music to classical pieces, I can really feel the connection here with this tutorial. 👍
Same started 1 year ago self taught can even play a couple easy songs and do some vibrato, i do play daily though, aside from that if i never saw 0.000001 improvement id probably quit lol
Lovely inspiration video, I pick up my violin each day because I have always loved it as an instrument. Whatever I try and play I like to put some free expression in it. I used to be a taxi driver and I was always talking about music to Catherine who plays the cello, she has worked with you in a string Quartet playing Italian Baroque music. I love Baroque music as it is more akin to traditional folk music. I don't know why everyone else wants to play the big concertos such as Paganini Brahms Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. What one hears with those concertos and what one can actually play are entirely different things through my experience. Adam Beanstock.
Hi Nicky thanks for posting these fantastic videos as a beginner on the violin I’ve found them great to follow especially the video on vibrato which I’m Just getting to grips with, The strings I’m currently using are dominant strings which I’ve got from the violin shop in Edinburgh which you might know, They seem to be good as my violin was bought for a few hundred pounds what I would like to ask is do you think the strings you are using would make a big difference on a violin like mine Greetings Edward
Great tips! Very easy to take away from this at my level.. with just over 1 year's experience, I struggle to to make small improvements and critique myself but this will help me practice smarter
Your doing a great job Nicola , some times you will hear it said what great talent, but that a small part of the story you have to put in hours of pratice every day Ian Anderson
Thank you so much for all of your so valuable guidance and inspiration. As being a viola player, having picked up the instrument after fourty years again, your lessons are so helpful and encouraging. Is there any possibility that you might enrich your lessons for viola specific aims as well? Lots of thanks anyway, Hannes.
Just a reminder : nobody's perfect. It's okay to fail, it's okay to do only 1% of it, it's okay. Really important thing (and should be on top of the list i think) : enjoy! 🤟
A specific suggestion for folks - to practice sound in a time-efficient way, I find Simon Fischer's tone exercises quite remarkable. He claims he's taught them with great success to everyone from young kids to virtuoso soloists. There's a DVD, or it's in his Violin Lesson book.
@@nate8038 It's for players who already have some basic technique - ie they have a proper bow-hold and can draw a full bow relatively straight and with a half-decent sound. Also - I don't think it's aimed at tinies - the kids in the video start at around 7 or so. But at that point, absolutely. Get them the video and help them work through it. Or even better, talk with their teacher about it. I'm not the only one who thinks that this might be the single most helpful exercise in the whole field of violin pedagogy...
Dear Nicky thank you for all those videos. I have a request if you could tell us about developing beautiful INTONATION and keeping maintenance, related problems, and exercises related to Intonation. Thank you for your time.
These videos are so informative, thank you! We need more insight into the minds of world class musicians and how they stoke the flame of excellence and keep it ignited over the years and decades. Wonderful work!
This was a fantastic video. As a returning violinist (three years break due to medical reasons) this is incredibly helpful to getting me back into the swing of things. Thank you so much for posting this! :)
"Feel the weight of your instrument" Well, I'm a pianist, that might be a problem ahahahahahah jokes apart, this video was really motivating, thank you ♡
Hahahaha
I'm a new violinist, aged 70. My wife has told me that she thinks I'm in love with Nicky! (She's not wrong 🤣) Every time she walks past and sees me watching one of her videos she smiles and says "Awwwww ......'
These are fantastic learning aids. Thank you so much for posting them.
Thank you so much, I was having such a difficult time staying focused and not getting frustrated durning my practice time. I will definitely start applying your routine to my daily practice time!
Beautiful Your performances are spectacular 👏
Thank you so much for making those videos! This one in particular is very helpful. I wrote them down and will try to follow these principles when I practice. Having the right mindset when practicing is so important!
I love your playing and your teaching, but even more I love your commitment to making the world a better place.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. What great advice. I must watch this several more times. As an adult amateur I can only hope to achieve a bit of what you are teaching, but what a worthwhile journey!!
This is really sound and deep musical advise. Thank you. I love trust and practicing calm, very important.
Again your focus is on getting the mind and body in a calm state allowing focus. So smart and works so well. I am largely self-taught and have discovered this. However, I recommend some stretching exercises for hands and arms and body. 5 minutes did the trick. I have 2 violins, one a inexpensive strad and an expensive guarneri, both ring like a flower opening to the sun light. The cheap one does it best and so easy to know you have found gold. You are the first I can recall mentioning this very important aspect. Thanks for a beautiful list to use each day.
Thank you - I have a feeling this video may be life changing.
You Tube needs a double like button 😊 Really helpful - thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for what you do. You motivate me and push me Everyday. Thanks again.
There’s Joy in Repetition!!!
Excellent!! I will show this to my pupils. Thank you!
Your tips are awesome! Thanks
Très intéressant Merci ❤
Hi Nicola, I just want to thank you for this video. I've written down all your steps into my journal and I read it everyday before practice. It's made such a huge improvement in how I feel and hopefully in how I sound 😁. I have been approaching and leaving my instrument with much more happiness. After completing a B.M and M.M followed by the unexpected circumstances of the world, I felt so stuck in my playing and almost wanted to give up. I feel like you collected all the good advice that different teachers give us and put it into one video which really simplifies things and makes practicing less intimidating. I'm excited to continue this routine..thank you thank you!!
Wow, this was very insightful! Thank you. I liked how you stressed on the attitude, I find it's so important when I practice to make sure 1. I am calm 2. I am concentrated. That allows me to have the patience, persistence and interest (!) to take the time and find the right note and the right sound, no matter how long it takes and how quickly I lose it again. Practice makes perfect, if it's the right type of practice.
Muchas gracias por los videos, son geniales! :)
It was best advices for me. Thanks!
I HUMBLY AGREE, HOWEVER, I AM A MASTER PROCRASTINATOR.! I LL PRACTICE ANYWAY.
The best ,honest and from the heart advice one can give you!Thank you!
Thanks Nicola, I play the mandolin and being tuned the same as the violin I am looking to upgrade from Irish and bluegrass music to classical pieces, I can really feel the connection here with this tutorial. 👍
learning as a 28 adult , very motivating tnks for the most instrospective bits of the video.
Same started 1 year ago self taught can even play a couple easy songs and do some vibrato, i do play daily though, aside from that if i never saw 0.000001 improvement id probably quit lol
Thank you soooo much for these great free videos!💚
Bravo! You have taught a wonderful lesson in teaching violin musicians! It is a pity that the great violinist Poganini does not hear you!
I can’t get over how beautiful she is honest to god like that’s what you call flower of Scotland right there.
Thanks Nicky!!! This is very helpful!!!💝💝💝
Love thw information you are giving. Thank you so much!!
Grazie Nicola!!
Lovely inspiration video, I pick up my violin each day because I have always loved it as an instrument. Whatever I try and play I like to put some free expression in it. I used to be a taxi driver and I was always talking about music to Catherine who plays the cello, she has worked with you in a string Quartet playing Italian Baroque music. I love Baroque music as it is more akin to traditional folk music. I don't know why everyone else wants to play the big concertos such as Paganini Brahms Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. What one hears with those concertos and what one can actually play are entirely different things through my experience. Adam Beanstock.
Thank you Nicky, great advice ❤
Thank You for the advice! You are amazing Nicola! Love You 💕
great video loved it
Great advice. In my experience, the best players are usually the most thoughtful, insightf and organised. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Thank you. This video really helped me especially since I have been struggling with intonation recently.
Thanks for the great video! it means so much that to post these videos for free on youtube!
Muitíssimo obrigado Nicola. ❤️
thank you so much this really helped!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you so much ! this video helped me practice much more consistently!
Thanks for the lesson tips Nicky
Beautiful video , I’m getting into jazz saxophone
Numbers 1 and 4 are sometimes the hardest things. Very good overall tips and advice though.
So beautiful and amazing video 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
practice 40 hours a day
40 likes tho
@@Segel1230 I almost ruined it
This is really helpful, thank you!
Hi Nicky thanks for posting these fantastic videos as a beginner on the violin I’ve found them great to follow especially the video on vibrato which I’m Just getting to grips with, The strings I’m currently using are dominant strings which I’ve got from the violin shop in Edinburgh which you might know, They seem to be good as my violin was bought for a few hundred pounds what I would like to ask is do you think the strings you are using would make a big difference on a violin like mine Greetings Edward
Amazing advices❤thank you.
Thank you so much Nicky! All the best for you..
Thank you for posting these Nicola! Was wondering, at 6:32, where do you get the small book for orchestra parts?
This was amazing, Nic!
Great tips! Very easy to take away from this at my level.. with just over 1 year's experience, I struggle to to make small improvements and critique myself but this will help me practice smarter
Your explanations are priceless to students .Great job
Much appreciated
Thank you 💕
I just want to say, you are so amazing 💕💕
This is so true.
Great video, musically and sympathywise
I don't play Violin. I play Guitar and I think that these practice tips work just the same.
Hi,I listened to you Richard Strauss sonata interpretation of the two last movements and is really extraordinary..!!so Lyrical,amazing!!!
Thank you for this!
I needed this! Thank you.
Your doing a great job Nicola , some times you will hear it said what great talent, but that a small part of the story you have to put in hours of pratice every day Ian Anderson
That is so much easier and more fun than I do it. I come
Thank you so much for all of your so valuable guidance and inspiration.
As being a viola player, having picked up the instrument after fourty years again, your lessons are so helpful and encouraging. Is there any possibility that you might enrich your lessons for viola specific aims as well?
Lots of thanks anyway, Hannes.
Hannes. Forty, not fourty.
This video is just what I needed, I am so happy!!!
Tq for advice Mam really useful
i love your videos they are so inspiring
Thank you!!!!
I needed this so badly!!! Thanks!
Thank you, Nicola Benedetti, for sharing your knowlege of the violin. Your time is greatly appreciated!
I love your videos!! ❤️
Great! I love you... 😎👍
Thank you!
I needed this today
Just a reminder : nobody's perfect. It's okay to fail, it's okay to do only 1% of it, it's okay. Really important thing (and should be on top of the list i think) : enjoy! 🤟
A specific suggestion for folks - to practice sound in a time-efficient way, I find Simon Fischer's tone exercises quite remarkable. He claims he's taught them with great success to everyone from young kids to virtuoso soloists. There's a DVD, or it's in his Violin Lesson book.
Would you recommend this? My daughter has just started playing. Many thanks.
Would you recommend this? My daughter has just started playing. Many thanks.
@@nate8038 It's for players who already have some basic technique - ie they have a proper bow-hold and can draw a full bow relatively straight and with a half-decent sound.
Also - I don't think it's aimed at tinies - the kids in the video start at around 7 or so.
But at that point, absolutely. Get them the video and help them work through it. Or even better, talk with their teacher about it.
I'm not the only one who thinks that this might be the single most helpful exercise in the whole field of violin pedagogy...
Thank you.
Thanks
I practice 6 hours everyday. I read etudes in 9 different keys, practicing scales before hand.
Hi！ What brand of the E string did you use in this vedio？ thanks！
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Dear Nicky thank you for all those videos. I have a request if you could tell us about developing beautiful INTONATION and keeping maintenance, related problems, and exercises related to Intonation. Thank you for your time.
Your hair is gorgeous
Very nice
What are we without sound and expression????
This should be the first lesson of every upcoming musician.
Without a nice colored sound we are lost!
🙏🏻🎻💐
Was that Sibelius i heard?
Very valuable advice!!!
I think this video is going to really help with my violin practice
Love Zara Cumming [nicks daughter
terimakasih video nya.... salam dari bali....
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Is it like a "mindfulness"?
Realize what are we doing during the practice?
2:17 I could not figure out Sibelius.
OK , so you just explained how to live life, NOW can we talk about the violin?
lol! Great reply! ^_^
Im having a hard time focusing on what you say because your so beautiful.
Came here for a sample routine and got violin yoga instead?
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😍😍
I feel like I’m in a yoga class