Occasionally, freshmen violin student attend their first lesson while exhibiting one or more bad habits as far as holding and positioning the violin is concerned. This is, to a large extent, due to the lack of adequate private instruction. However, by accessing the right information and training, you stand a chance to advance in tone and speed and experience a comfortable session with the equipment. This article provides you with helpful guidelines on how to hold a violin properly.
To begin with, you start in rest position. Once again, this is particularly for a beginner. Put your feet together and make a V for violin. You then step out with either foot so that your equal distance apart from your shoulders. Note here that your shoulders should be the same and your feet must be parallel to the shoulders.
The next step is to take your shoulder of the left side of the equipment with your left hand and put it out in front of your left foot. Ensure to make your arm quite nice and straight. Turn the violin over to make it upside down and fly it into your neck. This is the most challenging part, since you want to ensure that you cannot really see the top of your shoulder. When the instrument is held in this position and the holder is still able to see the top of his/ her shoulder, then a lot of mistakes have been made.
The wrist should not be bent inwards, but rather made straight. You do not want the left portion of the palm- the base of the thumb- contacting the neck. Also, the left arm has to be positioned under the back such that you can barely see it when looking down at the top of the equipment, on the right side.
When standing up straight and having the shoulder width apart, the fingerboard and the neck should be lined up with your left leg and foot. Positioning the violin too far to the left makes it hard to draw a straight bow and rather challenging to bow all the way to the tip.
Many students get themselves into the incorrect left hand position. They get entangled into this bad habit by facing the music stand directly when reading music. The position forces them to move the violin to the left side in order to see the whole page. In an attempt to prevent this, position your body in such a manner that the scroll is pointed approximately eight inches to the left of the music stand. For you to achieve this, be sure not to twist your upper torso to the left.
Hold the scroll at about nose level. Use a shoulder pad to obtain this while relaxing the shoulder and shifting some of the lifting burden off the left arm. Note that low positioning of the instrument looks awful and often works against smooth motions and shifting of the left hand and effective tone projection.
Simply put, make a V shape, take your left hand to the left shoulder and make a straight arm over the left foot. You then flip it over and fly it in. Ensure that the equipment is on the shoulder using half of your cheek and half of the chin. Finally, fly the left hand to the right shoulder and there you have a beautiful position.
To begin with, you start in rest position. Once again, this is particularly for a beginner. Put your feet together and make a V for violin. You then step out with either foot so that your equal distance apart from your shoulders. Note here that your shoulders should be the same and your feet must be parallel to the shoulders.
The next step is to take your shoulder of the left side of the equipment with your left hand and put it out in front of your left foot. Ensure to make your arm quite nice and straight. Turn the violin over to make it upside down and fly it into your neck. This is the most challenging part, since you want to ensure that you cannot really see the top of your shoulder. When the instrument is held in this position and the holder is still able to see the top of his/ her shoulder, then a lot of mistakes have been made.
The wrist should not be bent inwards, but rather made straight. You do not want the left portion of the palm- the base of the thumb- contacting the neck. Also, the left arm has to be positioned under the back such that you can barely see it when looking down at the top of the equipment, on the right side.
When standing up straight and having the shoulder width apart, the fingerboard and the neck should be lined up with your left leg and foot. Positioning the violin too far to the left makes it hard to draw a straight bow and rather challenging to bow all the way to the tip.
Many students get themselves into the incorrect left hand position. They get entangled into this bad habit by facing the music stand directly when reading music. The position forces them to move the violin to the left side in order to see the whole page. In an attempt to prevent this, position your body in such a manner that the scroll is pointed approximately eight inches to the left of the music stand. For you to achieve this, be sure not to twist your upper torso to the left.
Hold the scroll at about nose level. Use a shoulder pad to obtain this while relaxing the shoulder and shifting some of the lifting burden off the left arm. Note that low positioning of the instrument looks awful and often works against smooth motions and shifting of the left hand and effective tone projection.
Simply put, make a V shape, take your left hand to the left shoulder and make a straight arm over the left foot. You then flip it over and fly it in. Ensure that the equipment is on the shoulder using half of your cheek and half of the chin. Finally, fly the left hand to the right shoulder and there you have a beautiful position.
