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Learning The Art Of Left Hand Violin Hold

By Beryl Dalton


Practice is a vital thing to any kind of learning endeavor. It is the daily effort that you put in as you follow your roadmap to success. The same goes for learning the violin. Learning it needs tremendous amount of practice before one can play a decent tone. Even the seasoned violinists need to practice from time to time as means of forwarding their learning.

Without practice, a newbie will not improve and a veteran may risk forgetting what he learned. It is a necessity. There are a lot of things that one needs to familiarize before he can play the instrument. From the reading of notes to the right placement of fingers, these all takes time. Left hand violin hold is among the most challenging things that aspiring violinists need to learn.

Perfecting this is not easy. This is why those who do not have passion ended up giving up in the long run. It takes more than effort and time to master the instrument. Passion is necessary, something which is not present to everyone. When studying it, here are the things that you need to remember at all times.

Posture. If you enroll in a formal institution, one of the primary things that the mentor will hammer into your head is the importance of proper posture. If you do not have this to begin with, you will have a difficult time performing the others. This is also the one that encourages proper breathing so that you remain comfortable while playing.

Ensure that your hand is loose. This encourages flexibility in playing and will allow you to adjust the placement of your fingers better. It has been observed that beginners tend to have their shoulders, arms, elbows and hands too stiff, making it difficult for them to move.

Lift your hands to the fingerboard, still maintaining that loose feel. Once you place your fingers on the strings, grip it with strength. Its difficult to maintain a balance between the fluidity and the strength that you need to maintain on your wrist and fingers. But the more you practice, the more this becomes second nature.

Finger placement. Just like the guitar, one needs to practice proper placement to produce a particular sound. This is extremely difficult for beginners who are still juggling with the reading of notes and shifting of their finger from one position to the next. No matter how difficult, this needs to be learned in order to play a piece.

As you go on with your lesson, you will learn more about the different keys and how to shift from on position to another. As long as you practice the basics well, the variety of movements will come in easier. Just keep in mind that learning all of these may not be easy. There are some who learn faster than the others. There are even those people who attribute it to the length of your fingers. Regardless of the size of your hand or fingers, what matters most in the end is your desire to learn and the amount of time you place in actualizing it.

As long as you have that passion to learn how to play the instrument in you, you can find time to learn it. Do not be afraid if its your first time holding a violin. All the good players started as newbies. They just never gave up and kept on learning.




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