Very useful comment! Thank you! I will pin that!

@@SimonStreuffViolinEducation you are welcome. Thanks for the content. If you are interested in dividing your videos in chapters, I think KZfaq allows it for video uploads. It might by time consuming though. I enjoyed the dense and in-depth overview.

@@Lamadesbois Yes, I have seen it in many other KZfaq videos and wanted to implement that already. I will learn that right now! Thak you for the suggestion!

@@Lamadesbois Hey, I just used your timestamps in this video as a test and it seems to work. I hope that is ok, I link your channel in the description too. One question: what does "fast-allowing" mean ?

@@SimonStreuffViolinEducation Great! By “fast-allowing”, I meant “not hindering once you play at tempo”. Feel free to replace it 🙂

Thank you! I am happy to hear that! :)

Thank you for your comment, especially since you were in a time crunch!

I always had to work hard on playing fast in my violinistic career! Playing fast did not come natural to me, but when I practice things thoroughly with these methods, the sky is the limit! Glad you can benefit from it too. This video was important for me to get out there. Your appreciation feels great!

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Thank you man! Keep practicing! :)

Thank you for your comment :)

Thank you so much! Great to hear that! Send greetings to your teacher :)

@@SimonStreuffViolinEducation ok I will! :)

Thank you so much!

thank you so much!

Thank you :)

Thank you so much, I will post much more during summer!

efficiency is everything! The amount comes into play, when efficiency is maxed out!

Thank You :)

Thank you for your comment :)

@@SimonStreuffViolinEducation it' s a plasure 😚❤

Thank you so much! I am glad you like my Intonation Course! I am looking forward to cover more topics in depth. About slow practicing: It should serve us only to eliminate faults and to organize our bowings, dynamics and articulation, after that speeding up while maintaining the quality is an important step which should be taken with a good plan in mind.

Thank you for your like! Very much appreciated!

Do what sounds and works the best! 140 is quick though a minimal movement can make things easier. If you can play from the wrist or at least with a lot of wrist involved it could be easier in the long run. But changing the movement is hard, if you prefer the forearm movement. Using the forearm is also totally fine... if you can keep up with the tempo... :)

I just in summer started this series! I will put out some videos very soon about the beginning on the violin!

That's what I am here for! :) Show your teacher, maybe he can learn. It should be common knowledge in my opinion hence this video

That is hard to say, I would say there are factors, that make it easier for young people to learn the coordination, other factors could be easier as an adult. I think that when we are young and our body is developing and we are learning so much every day it is easier to establish natural movement pattern that work especially well for us from just the feeling. When we are older our nerves are already very much programmed in a certain way. How we use our hands in this case. Holding a steering wheel for example is something most of us are pretty natural at because we got used to it and we do it regularly. But when it comes to violin specific movements, which can be quite unnatural feeling at first, we have to reprogram our nerves and develope muscles, which we may have never used in that way before. That being said in my opinion the art of learning to play fast on an instrument is determined mainly by the time and dedication we give to it. I can not naturally play fast on the violin and I can say that I have never seen someone with "quick fingers", who just can play and sound like a professional from the beginning. It is the same as expecting a newborn to be a chess master, it just doesn't happen. So what I want to say with this is that everybody has to train certain things and everybody has his or her own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to learn to play quickly. For example you could have less flexible and less agile fingers when you are above 40 or 50, but you are very much likely much better in finding out efficient ways to train your body and hopefully more disciplined than a 6 year old. ;) In the end it is all about exercise. Nobody can really tell you how far you will go exactly other than if you just find it out yourself. Back in the day I had moments where I doubted my ability to play fast, because I struggled with it often times. My teachers told me to practice certain ways to increase my "top speed" and the exercises worked for me with a good potion of effort though. I lose my ability to play at my "top speed" when I don't practive for a few days and I need another few days of good practice to earn that back. To raise the bar so to say can take weeks, months and years! As in weightlifting or sports in generall sometimes you improve, sometimes you plateau and sometimes you get worse in that regard. After this philosophical answer I want to give you practical advice too: Do the exercises in the video and apply the practicing techniques in your repertoire regularly (in the best case: daily!). Small doses at first (5-10 minutes a practice session) and if you practice longer sessions make it 10%-20% of your practice time dedicated to articulation, independency and velocity of the left hand as well as the interplay with the bow and different bowing techniques. Good news is you can basically not not improve then. In my opinion you can learn how to play fast with Schradieck and scales (with rhythms and variations) only. It just works! But because that would be boring I love to integrate rhythms and techniques like accents in my repertoire practice as well. Sometimes it can even be all that is needed, because our music is full of scales anyways, which can be taken out of context for exercise purposes. One last tip for fast detache: let your bow lead the tempo: play faster as you are used to with your bow on only the open string and then try to catch the same speed with some fingered notes. That way we can often times raise the bar quickly. But reliable fast fingers can in my opinion only be achieved by very regular training over years. Have fun practicing! :)

Playing fast is in my opinion only one small part of the journey of learning to play an instrument. The key in the end is to have something to say or also just to enjoy playing the instrument and make music. I like to have some agility training in my warm up routine on the violin as a daily habit as well as some basic bow exercises. This prevents me from having to practice fast passages until I can't hear them anymore since my fingers and brain are used to the challenge due to the daily training. I like to switch up routines from time to time though, but I always come back to scales in my case 3 or even 4 octaves, but also sometimes scales in one position or Schradieck like exercises just to activate the muscles of the fingers and to engrave different movement pattern and pattern combinations which accur in music in some way or form regularly. I hope that helps!

I think I answered you on facebook already. I think the overtones you are experiencing are from a too high bow speed for the contact point. Also you should add a little more weight to the bow, if the string "whistles"

@@SimonStreuffViolinEducation thanks. Yes you did answer me on Facebook thanks. About adding weight to the bow. That also makes the music forte when you want to be playing pianissimo.

@@AmandaViolinGirl If you want to play pianissimo and your strings whistle, you have to adjust your contact point to the edge of the fingerboard.

Thank you.

I plan on doing a full beginner course! Join my newsletter on violin-education.com and you will for sure get notified early! In summer I will record the videos!

Yes Mr. Streuff: I am signed up for the newsletter. I was interested in your intonation course, and the material is of interest but clearly too advanced for me at this point. I will watch for a beginners course. You already taught me how to hold the bow, so we have a good start. Thank you!

@@nancyharris7020 In the Intonation Guide for Violinists I cover many basic technical things, which can be beneficial for a beginner too! Only the things about shifting and some advanced note reading exercises will maybe be too complicated at first. But in every advanced lesson I usually have a easy example as well. I always try to teach my students from the get go a technique that will serve them later on. I will hurry up with the beginner course, since I see the demand and I can bring all my experience in it from teaching beginners for over 15 Years and also beginner string classes. I just have to wait for my summer holidays to dive into the video making :)

Thanks for encouraging me to take your Intonation course. I found the concepts to be invaluable. I have much more stability and confidence on the fingerboard. My frustration with intonation has been replaced with enthusiasm to keep practicing and learning. Thank you, Simon!

Simon Streuff Violin-Education thank you Simon, please see my note below

I can't give you scales. What do you mean?

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@@desigunda6956 haha

:D Kinda!

Ha ha twosetviolin fan.

Quickly :)

There's always one. Lol

Exactly!