I love seeing your progress and dedication to improving your playing. I've played the violin for over 35 years and have struggled with intonation also. I found drone practice to be very helpful. I would also advise that you avoid using a tuner to find the notes, for two reasons. First, the primary aspect of intonation is being able to hear the correct notes. By using a tuner, you are relying more on visual cues instead of auditory ones. Secondly, intonation is a vague concept. There is no such thing as perfect pitch or perfectly "in tune" notes. Intonation exists as a relationship and auditory space between notes. Matching a single note to a tuner is counterproductive. Drone practice will help train your ears to hear this space.
This instrument is hard to play. I could never get it so I stuck to piano. On a guitar you have a fret board with finger markings, but you don't have one on a viola. How do know which note is which? Do you have to remember the positioning of the finger? Non the less this is awesome to see.
Yep for string players to work on intonation(tuning) it is necessary to practice finger positions to memorise them because even being slightly off will make you out of tune
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Journaling your progress is such a powerful step .. all the best friend!
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I love seeing your progress and dedication to improving your playing. I've played the violin for over 35 years and have struggled with intonation also. I found drone practice to be very helpful. I would also advise that you avoid using a tuner to find the notes, for two reasons. First, the primary aspect of intonation is being able to hear the correct notes. By using a tuner, you are relying more on visual cues instead of auditory ones. Secondly, intonation is a vague concept. There is no such thing as perfect pitch or perfectly "in tune" notes. Intonation exists as a relationship and auditory space between notes. Matching a single note to a tuner is counterproductive. Drone practice will help train your ears to hear this space.
Thank you!
This instrument is hard to play. I could never get it so I stuck to piano. On a guitar you have a fret board with finger markings, but you don't have one on a viola. How do know which note is which? Do you have to remember the positioning of the finger? Non the less this is awesome to see.
Yep for string players to work on intonation(tuning) it is necessary to practice finger positions to memorise them because even being slightly off will make you out of tune