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Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and this is your myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week!
Keep your fingers close to the fingerboard.
This is for all you violinists, violists, cellos, fiddlers, etc. String players out there- bassists, guitarists, mandolinists, and banjoists too!
Keep your fingers close to the fingerboard.
This might seem kind of obvious to some of you. But if you keep your fingers close to the fingerboard, they’re going to be better in tune, first of all.
So, now that doesn’t matter if you have frets, you can play out of tune all you want, and the frets will fix it.
But on a violin- playing fiddle, you have to know that you don’t have a safety net! No frets.
Keeping them close to the fingerboard helps your fingers know where to go.
The second thing- keeping your fingers close to the fingerboard will help you play faster. Because if I’m playing […]… I can’t play very fast.
But […]…
If I keep my fingers close, I can play faster!
So, if you keep your fingers close to the fretboard, or the fingerboard, as the case may be, you will be able to play faster too!
So that is your Quick Tip of the week! Keep your fingers close to the fingerboard!
And have a fantastic week!
PS. For More tips on how to improve your left hand technique, check out these lessons:
· Comfort with Your Left Hand
· Vibrato Fundamentals
· Vibrato Secrets
· Secrets to Shifting Success
· Shifting Workouts
· Simple Double Stop Scales
· Modal Violin Scales
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