That's wonderful. I think that means your ear is progressing as well! I think better violins have much better resonance when you do everything right, so it makes it more obvious when you do something wrong!

Thank you so much!

Great point! It does make a big difference as well!

You're very welcome! Hope it helps!

You're welcome! Glad you're getting started!

Thank you!

It's actually the other way around, closer to the bridge requires more weight to get a good tone and the fingerboard requires less. Some people do use the terms weight and pressure interchangeably. I think there is a difference. Weight is the relaxed weight of your entire arm and shoulder, transferred through your fingers to the bow. Pressure is basically a motion from the wrist forward (like pressing a button). Weight is controllable and pressure is not as controllable. I talk about it in a lot of my videos and my online studio. This video discusses the topic as well: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ed9jhMVimcjcY40.html

@@MeadowlarkViolin Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Thanks so much Joe! If I have remotely in some small way reminded someone of something Berstein said, then I feel like I've accomplished something!🤣Of course Lenny explains rhythm and phrasing with much more finesse!

I too find that having a plan for each individual note is essential to producing a good sound.

🤣🤣🤣I've been there too!

The brain fundamental works by finding (by learning or discovering) ways to meet goals, not by following instructions. The book "The inner game of tennis" explains this well, and no doubt "The inner game of music" does too. My suspicion is that Yehudi used his brain correctly as a child, but not as an adult. A lot of violin ability exists in the cerebellum. The cerebellum has more neurons than all the rest of the brain, and hence enables us to do incredible things. However, it has NO self awareness (read) capability, so an expert violinist cannot explain exactly how they do what they do. If they try to explain how they do something, they will necessarily make up something that's not actually true. Maybe Yehudi was under pressure to do something that cannot be done? Laura does it correctly in this video. She says, "Know that bow speed, bow weight, and contact point are important factors. Know too that they need to change in the course of a note and a phrase. Now go away and do lots of experimentation to master these things so that you can find ways to use them to create a wonderful sound". That's perfect. She doesn't overstep the mark and try to tell us things she cannot know. If we keep pushing her for rules of when to do what, she eventually won't be able to do that. If instead she plays us a lovely note that uses the things she describes, and then leaves us to discover how to achieve that (maybe with her to help us evaluate our attempts) then that would work fine (even if some students want a more prescriptive approach). I learned this in a lesson from an exceptionally good concert pianist, and it agrees with my studies of the human brain. I've seen Yehudi teach and I think he got all this wrong, and I think maybe his own playing became impaired as a result. All this is just a hypothesis at the moment, in case it helps. I've not seen much of his teaching yet.

Exactly! 🤣