I’ve been playing violin for 6 years and I still have trouble with the bow

So until the large motor movements are in order, the small won't matter too much.

Thank you!🙏 This video was very helpful!

Yes, that Oistrakh video is superb. I only wish I'd been in the room on that day. What an electrifying performance! Regarding the Suzuki comments: I've done a fair bit of Suzuki pedagogy, training with some of the best in the world and I don't remember anyone suggesting that the neck and chin should be used as a lever. On the contrary a lot of the early setup is focused on soft hands and freedom from tension throughout the body. Setup is done with soft pads and such if needed. A shoulder rest would be a last resort used in rare cases. There's a lot of misinformation about Suzuki pedagogy, and it would be better if people educated themselves before spreading that around. You can find great teachers (and terrible teachers) in any facet of the violin world. There's so much to like about Suzuki pedagogy done right, as it is by thousands of wonderful trainers and teachers throughout the world. Peace, and thanks for bringing great content to KZfaq, Murphy Music Academy!

Guys I'm telling you hand shape es muy importante! Thanks Murphy!

veeeery helpfull video ty :)

Nothing like having an instrument that can play in just intonation and you ruin the pure tones by playing the music in an indefinite pitch. Vibrato should be used as an ornament, not a technique!

You forgot to mention to play constant vibrato on every single possible to note mask poor intonation.

If you can learn slowly then you learn quickly

Bro make a hole tutorial of the fucking Coda of the first movement is vary difficult to me to play it at 120 bpm with total control

Excellent video!

Huh, I think I'm aware of hand shapes in theory when it comes to where the fingers should sit, but everything disintegrates because of tension and not yet knowing how the hand part of the hand should be shaped (and the wrist and arm and shoulder, and where the violin should sit to be the most comfortable...)

Hi Debai. Thank you for piecing together some valuable steps in learning. Have you come across the Alexander Technique for aiding learning? For instance the pillar of muscle that arrives at the front of the neck at a perceived difficulty is responsible for pulling the head down with age and also rounds the upper back as a consequence. I was fortunate to learn at music college how to approach even difficult passages whilst letting this pillar rest within the neck. Not easy but so valuable.

Very helpful and will accelerate my playing thanks.

Very helpful ty

Thank you, this is hugely helpful. I was wondering why I have some difficulties playing in tune - while in fact, I'm not clear where the half and the full steps are.

Hope this helps.

Hi! I love your videos! Would you do a video about how to practice productively and effectively while not spending 5 hours on practicing? Thank you! 💙

Great work as always

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Salvatore Accardo's recording of the capricci is better 🙂. Also, Khachatryan won the Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels (first prize winner ever was David Oistrakh, when it was still called Eugène Ysaÿe competition), so he's not that unknown...

Very good pedagogy for violin technique , Thanks for sharing.

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This might sound corny, but I don't care. I love watching your videos because you have "Gusto". You get excited about what you're talking about, you are far beyond a phenomenal teacher, thank you good sir for every video you've ever posted.

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Very Good exercises!!

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Methodical and very well explained. I'm going to recommend this video to my students to reinforce the information I give them in their lessons. Thank you!

Thank you so much your videos are incredible, could you make a video on how to move the bow arm I tend to get confused with it a lot. Thanks

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curved fingers doesn't require clawed tension like you demonstrated. I don't think anyone teaches that. What surprises me is how concert pianists don't seem to curve hardly at all (?)

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Of course, "You can't have problems if you don't look at them"

Nice video, I really liked it. What way can I train the independence of my fingers? You know any tips?

Thank you so much. I've been playing violin for years and I just could not find out why my fingers kept coming so high off the fingerboard, especially the fourth finger. I always draw it back really high for some reason as I go to put it down. Turns out it's because of how I was putting it down. I have a collapsed fourth finger!! 😭

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I'm new to the violin, but have played ukulele and guitar since I was 5. I just want to pick up my baby and play. Shoulder rest is uncomfortable to me. I figure it's a modern convention. People have been playing for hundreds of year without crutches and braces. Gipsys, common folk, cowboys and hillbillies. I just want to run free. My instructor is a Suzuki teacher, so I'm not sure how she's going to take to it. I was the type of kid who slept with his guitar. This should be fun. I always say the operative word in playing music is "PLAY". Let's not forget to play and while we play. Does that make sense?

Here’s something I learned from Alexander Technique. Don’t bear down on the bow, rather push up on the violin.

reminder that it’s okay if you need to come to this video after however many years of playing. i’m in my 5th year and auditioning for all state, but i still need to watch this as a reminder and a way to fine tune my intonation and technique. we all need it sometimes lol

Actually it is a problem. We don't all have the physique of Oistrakh or Heifetz. While playing without a rest may be the ideal it isn't right for everyone. And I have to wonder whether the padding used by some players under the jacket dampens the sound more than a shoulder rest.

Vasa Prihoda had a very prodigious talent and transcendent technical facility. He is heard flawlessly flying through the most demanding of passages as though it were child's play, and perhaps it was for him as he would compose his own cadenzas to all the concertos he played. He toured with Arturo Toscanini using Paganini's own "Il Cannone" Guarnerius del Gesu early in his career. Sadly, we don't have recordings of Paganini, just our imagination and the tabloids of the day. But he left us his legacy, an uncanny ability to sell himself with his oeuvre. By all accounts a rare genius who knew how to dazzle and woo his audience with great bravura and showmanship. And, despite his detractors and failing health, he still achieved fame, fortune, and immortality.

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Hello Murphy, Thank you so much for your videos! I learn SOOO much from them each time. Please, keep on bringing them to us. The only thing I do when I watch your videos is that I lower the reading speed to 75% on KZfaq and I put the subtitles on. No kidding! I do that, so it helps me focus on what you are saying, there is so much advice concentration per minute, LOL😂❤

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