Thank you for the for all of these short lessons! I really appreciate your expertise as I am always searching for new methods to practice and improve my playing. I have heard similar advice on balancing the hand toward the 3rd and 4th fingers before, but it is always interesting and insightful to hear how every violinist explains it slightly differently.
Great tip! You’re new to my timeline and I like the lessons I’ve seen so far. I’ve noticed what you describe quite a bit, that it’s easier to establish the pinky and stretch down the neck rather than the other way. Working on Mozart’s Rondo ala Turca, for example, there’s a few places where it’s a better setup to stretch down to play the progression between a few notes on two strings than to move your frame back and forth to multiple positions in order to play on the same string. Anchoring the pinky and stretching down the 1st finger as you need to allows you to keep your frame in 1st position the entire time.
@@richardamoroso_violin and also different muscle memory. As a professional musician since the 80s focusing primarily on guitar (in Philly also, until 2000!) the fingering technique is not that much inherently different, so old habits seem to be influencing my techniques while learning a new instrument.
Thanx! 😊
You're welcome
Thank you for the for all of these short lessons! I really appreciate your expertise as I am always searching for new methods to practice and improve my playing. I have heard similar advice on balancing the hand toward the 3rd and 4th fingers before, but it is always interesting and insightful to hear how every violinist explains it slightly differently.
This is always a very hot topic given the huge differences in everyone's left hand.
I needed this Richard. My pinkie doesn’t even come up to my third joint of the ring finger.
That's very common
Great tip! You’re new to my timeline and I like the lessons I’ve seen so far. I’ve noticed what you describe quite a bit, that it’s easier to establish the pinky and stretch down the neck rather than the other way. Working on Mozart’s Rondo ala Turca, for example, there’s a few places where it’s a better setup to stretch down to play the progression between a few notes on two strings than to move your frame back and forth to multiple positions in order to play on the same string. Anchoring the pinky and stretching down the 1st finger as you need to allows you to keep your frame in 1st position the entire time.
Thank you. I love your comment. There's always unique ways to stretch the hand given different pieces.
@@richardamoroso_violin and also different muscle memory. As a professional musician since the 80s focusing primarily on guitar (in Philly also, until 2000!) the fingering technique is not that much inherently different, so old habits seem to be influencing my techniques while learning a new instrument.