This improved my violin playing 😢. Thanks so much. Being a self thought hasn't been easy😊

I played for 20 years since high school amateurly. I play quite well but not good enough and I never had the time to find a proper teacher who can teach me in a systematic, scientific way. I wished I was like other kids who went through the whole Susuki which sets a good foundation. You’re now my teacher. Thank you

I don't know if this is just in my head but right off the bat I'm feeling a difference in my playing with these exercises. It's like I'm slowly getting more confident playing the harder pieces. This video is awesome thanks!

I am a violinist of 7 years. Being a sophomore in high school, im realizing that the violin is my biggest passion by far, and I dont think I could ever see myself in another career. With 2 left of highschool, im working to be the best violinist I can be by high schools end, and I want to try and be the best violinist I can be. Im currently on vacation, so can't practice my violin, which makes me sad, but im excited to come back home, and try these exercises. I truly believe that these will be a huge help for me to correct any bad habits I have made in past years, and help me improve my technique massively.

god damn those are the clearest harmonics I’ve heard in a while

I love that you offer Tonebase videos to further support yourself, but I sincerely hope you keep uploading here to KZfaq because I cannot afford Tonebase. The whole reason I subscribed to you is because you offer for free (and with amazing quality) what I could not afford growing up as an underprivileged musician, and what I cannot afford today even as an adult. Please keep adding valuable content here and keep up the awesome work. As a self-taught violinist, your videos have helped me exponentially! Almost like having a private tutor.

Excellent exercises! When I first went to study the viola around 1968 with the great violinist Oscar Shumsky at his home, these are exactly, the same exercises you are showing here. They are a wonderful reminder, and I will go through them again tomorrow. Thank you. Ronald Hurwitz

sounds like these exercises will expose everything wrong with everyones playing 🙃

Nicely done, Daniel. In my youth, my occasional recording session-playing stand partner was Marin Alsop, now better-known as a conductor. (Baltimore Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, others.) I was, and am, more of a jazz-rock-country player than classicist. We were neighbors, so I offered to trade lessons. I asked her once how I could play better in tune in higher positions. Hand position? Muscle memory? Sight? Ear? She answered, "Use everything." Some of the best advice I ever got.

Hi, I'm a violist but your videos still help my technique so much!! I was wondering if you could possibly do a video on smooth bow changes/connecting notes to create a clean phrase. Thanks!!

Marvellous stuff!

Hi Daniel, I'm an adult beginner started just 10 weeks ago so probably way out of my league even watching your videos, but just want to let you know how much exercise 1 is helping me just getting flexibility in my left hand and releasing tension in my thumb, many thanks for your effort and time you put into your lessons you have a brilliant but very humble way of teaching. much thanks from Australia

What a brilliant video ! Thank you very much.

딸이 바이올린을 전공하고 있고 제 나이는 53세이고 바이올린을 딸에게 배우고 있습니다. 훌륭하신 가르침 잘 보고 갑니다~👍😊💕

i have auditions for my city's symphony youth orchestra in a few weeks and i felt like i was stuck in my progress with my excerpts but i found this video and it helped me tremendously and my excerpts have been taken to the next level they needed THANKYOU!!

Mi profesor virtual favorito y el que resume a TODOS en UNO. Gracias querido Daniel 🇺🇾

HI FROM MOROCCO! VERY HELPFULL!!! GREATEST THANKS!!!! شكرا جزيلا

I'm deeply impressed and thankful!

You do an amazing job. Thank you very very much, Daniel!

Hi, I found your tips really helpful, I've been practicing only for a few weeks with some of the exercises, and my violin playing and confidence has already changed a lot. These are really useful and I can see how much effort You put in this video. Thank You so much. You may feel that it takes so much time and energy but we appreciate it and we really need your guide to improve a better violinist. I think this way never ends. 😀

These exercises are so helpful. Thank you Mr Kurganov for your excellent teaching. Your video is staying on my tabs for the foreseeable!

What a comprehensive video you have put together. I can't wait to try some of these exercises. 🎵

Thanks, always! I never knew exercises could sound so good.

Violist here- great video I’ve been looking for some new warm-up material. No. 4 in particular was new to me, what a great exercise! This collection reminds me of the Dounis daily dozen too- thanks for all of the detail!

I thank you so much for taking the time to make this video! Im going to start incorporating these in my daily practice! I need to get better at working on exercises to improve my intonation and posture, dexterity, etc. I usually just play a scale or too And get impatient and start working on my pieces. But I realize that doing these exercises will help me play my pieces and improve my overall playing! I must make the time and remember to be patient and trust the process just like wax on and wax off!☺️

This is amazing! Thank you so much! 🙏🤘🏼❤

Excellent instruction! Thank you 🙏

I'm a beginner, and 'love it! 'Will be watching this again, with the violin in hand! Thank you for creating this useful content! 👍

Digested “The way they play” as a student and still love it ! Great video, bravo!

Very very good exercises! And beautiful sound

Огромное вам спасибо! Вы научили меня играть пиццикато левой рукой, ранее для меня это было чем-то божественным!

Priceless information!Thank you!

You are incredible, thank you for your content ❤

Gracias Maestro!!! Excelente clase!!!

Wonderful!

I love Samuel Appelbaum. I use all 5 books with my students, and they are so much better and more efficient than the newer stuff.

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

This is fabulous. I play viola and this will help immensely!

Can't thank you enough for sharing this amazing and valuable content! It helps us a lot to improve in our playing. Thank you very much, greetings from Honduras. 🇭🇳

What a great teacher you are. Thanks.

You are doing great work! Thank you! Very very useful!

This is amazing, thank you for sharing!

Thank you! Great exercises!

Mil gracias, Daniel, por otra clase magistral! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Seguiré experimentando y luchando para no apretar con los dedos de la mano izquierda! 💜🎶💜🎻

Thanks Daniel i am totally beginner this will help me a lot brilliant exercises

As an adult nearly beginner I tried the one finger scale with pinky pizz. Great wonderexercise! In a few minutes another better stable feeling in left hand setting occured! Thank You so much for sharing Your wisdom and experience! Such successes keep me feel enthusiastic! ( Studied guitar and harp , which need much power. Violin doesn't need so much power. This is a very good feeling! And the long melody lines wich are possible. And much more....) I play a lot of gipsy style which needs flexibility and speed. Nevertheless playing in tune... 😉🙏

You are amazing! I can't wait to get to work. Thank you.

Muchas gracias por esto!!

Excellent and captivating teaching!

This is a brilliantly put together video. Top notch stuff.

I started listening to this guy a month ago. The stuff he is talking about has really been helping me learn the violin. If he was a pro-wrestler of violin teaching, then he would be the Macho-Man of violin teaching. Oh Ya - Randy Macho Man Savage.

Very informative content right here. The plucking of the pinky the opposite way is something I haven’t thought about!

incredible ❤️😻

Thank you soooooo much for your valuable videos, The world is better with people like you.

I picked up my violin and did the exercises with you. It was useful thank you!

I need the second part! So awesome excercises. Thanks.

Wow!!! Very, very useful for my students!!! Thank you!!!! (I also didn't know Michael Tree and Sam Applebaum were related. I know someone who knows Arnold Steinhardt very well. Small world isn't it?)

i totally agree with what you said about bowing accuracy in the case of artificial harmonics;most of time,especially on the e string,sound doesn t come out because of bowing and not merely fingering;anyway,you re a great,clear,and very skilled teacher;

Thanks for this video, Daniel!!! It help me a lot 😻😻

He’s an amazing violinist!

Thank you!!😍🥰

I really needed this help- practising with kids going nuts around me so needing to make all my time count is a must!

BRAVO !

Thanks...❤

Hi fellow learners, in exercise II, I learned it by playing reversed starting from the higher E note, the one further away. It is easier that way. Then after a few practice, I do it the way Mr. Kruganov teaches here. Hope Mr. Kruganov approves. (Btw, sorry for my name. A good friend who knew not I play the violin and that this name was my favourite virtuoso, randomly gave me this name he picked up online because we give each other names).

I love my violin! So, thank you for these tips! Much appreciated 🙏

Such a creative, helpful and nice video, Thank you!

This video is so very useful!! You are a fantastic violinist and a fantastic teacher! Thank you for sharing your knowledge for free!!😊

Very useful and my teacher has partly shown me something similar. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! The best tutorial ever. So many questions I had unanswered waiting to be and it just happened ! Fresh air coming in! Thanks 😊

This videos helped me so much! I play for 8 years and i had no idea of all the technique mistakes in my playing. Now i have motivation to work🖤🖤

Hi Daniel! Saw that you are working on a video on bowing and different techniques - really looking forward to that! Hope you can add the basics as well! Have always had a problem being able to keep the bow stable parallel to the bridge, on as well as off the strings. When off the string the tip tends to fly all over the place, particularly when I do the exercise of lifting the bow from tip to frog and back. When on the string doing downbow I tend to always make some weird twitching, sideways motion just below the middle of the bow. Small but noticeable. It's better on the upbow, but in general it hardly ever looks like the bow is in the same place during the whole stroke, as it looks when you and most of the great play. I wonder if it's related to the fact that I have quite long arms and have the chinrest placed pretty much above the tailpiece. Just haven't really figured out what to do with my arm, wrist, hand and fingers to make it work properly. All insightful input is very welcome! Also I haven't been able to find that you've made any video about left hand thumb position, or am I simply a bad researcher?, - that would be very interesting! Apart from the slightly wobbly bow motion thing, I've developed a ligament edema in my left wrist from trying to get a faster and tighter vibrato. My immediate response was to pretty much skip the vibrato all together to relax the wrist. I've also tried moving the thumb much higher on the side, a bit like James Ehnes, instead of having it pretty much under the neck, like Kogan sometimes. Found another KZfaq teacher, Tobiah Murphy, who gave some advice in a video how to play with a higher thumb without squeezing, but it would be great to get your input in this aspect as well, hopefully in another great video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ral5e9Cis6vQe40.html Btw - what book were you referring to in the beginning where you found these exercises? I'm also interested in the older teachers and players and their way of teaching and writing - they def bring some interesting historical value and aspects to todays playing! Cheers!

Brilliant . Thank You!

Great! Many thanks.

I am very thankful for this. You are an amazing violinist and educator, but also most generous for sharing your knowledge with us. Thank you!

Awesome

How amazing your videos are!!! Hope you’re doing well!! My 5 year old twins play now!!

Thank you very much for sharing!

Amazing video.

Благодарю!

Amazing video, thank you! Your channel has helped me immensely (even the advanced stuff despite me being a beginner - as a beginner, I find it important to know what I'm aiming for even if I'm nowhere near there yet). I know you have a few videos on Dounis' exercises. I recently came across a PhD thesis by Emily Stewart (Demetrios Constantine Dounis: the philosophy behind the methods). It was a fascinating read, especially chapters 2 (technique), 3 (teaching), and even chapter 4 (demonstrating his methods are pretty consistent with modern psychology - I'm a cognitive psychologist, and this aspect is what drew my interest in the first place). I would love to know your take on this. It would actually be amazing to have a video perhaps on what you might think are key points (cheeky request!), especially when it comes to technique and some of the discrepancies of his approach to those of Flesch, Galamian, and Suzuki in Chapter 2 (vibrato, bow hold - shockingly to me, he had nothing against a straight right thumb!). Thanks again for all you work and generous sharing of information.

muy bien video, such good quality

Eu amo seus vídeos

Thank you very much for this video. Recently been feeling like my playing can be better and my teacher knows it

Thanks for the exercises! Please consider showing Wieniawski's staccato exercises, especially down bow.

Maestro, excelente explicación detallada, altamente beneficiosa para mejorar. Muchas gracias!!!

What a great video thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks you!!!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

This exercises really helped me to improve

Thank you. When I play certain musical pieces I can almost hear the instructions from my first music teacher.

Gracias Kurganov

Amazing lessons

Muito feliz por encontrar um material tão vasto e tão bem explicado.

Very nice and usefull❤️❤️

Omg my mind is blown! I didn't know that you COULD make the same note sound the same on different strings. I just assumed they had to have a different sound and that was that.

love the lesson and LOVE the color grading on this video. exercise 1 is great for when i'm watching netflix and want to get some practice in :))

really professional, I wish me violin teacher would have told me such outstandingly outstanding things ...

Thank you sir

You are the best 👌

Hey! Thank you so much for this video and every video you’ve posted. You helped me so much with my intonation and technique. I follow your pdfs in every practice I make! I’m so immensely grateful for your generosity, clarity and knowledge. While watching this video I wondered: how often should we do this exercises? Is it an everyday occurrence or it also makes a difference if we do it once in a while? Once again, Thank you so much! Wish you all the best, Mariana (Portugal)