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How to hold a violin/viola bow

Added Sep 15, 2020 •

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hello today we're going to talk about the boat it's your boat and hopefully it's loose and what I mean by loose is a horsehair is going to be right here by the stick please please please do not touch the horsehair except for rosin we're going to talk about rosin Bistecca first of all you're going to take your bow K and this is how the Frog you're going to space the front or do you towards your belly button and you're going to turn the end of this the right that is my right so right Titan are both so I'm turning this little and peace to the right and you want to tighten it until it's about that far Ain't That Type. That's a little to tight you should be about a pencil or pen right at the center of your boat. How tight do you want your bow to be you don't want any tighter than that this is this is too tight we show you that's too tight because then you're putting I just asked for pressure right there and it will snap your bone in your boat too tight this is too tight to loosen it back the way it is by turning this around on the end to the left to the left to where it's trying that is about a this is the center of my bow right that is about how you want your bow to be next you going to take your boat and try not to try really hard not to touch the the bow hair the horse hair on it years since kindergarten I've been teaching you my bow down the rock on sign and that is a secret sign of how to hold your bow going to pick up your phone I'm notice how I put my son right here at this first joint knows my thumb is turned outward it's like a c not like that okay you don't want to do that or you're going to get carpal tunnel syndrome you want this nice and round right there at that very first knuckle or joint the Ballast Point right there so my llama has eaten my bow noticed that my son is still nice and and I've eaten it right at that first nut on the tip of my phone next year going to the stick on the stick to the second knuckle of your index finger hug that stick in your pinky Just Dance right here top top top along the top k. All right that is one of the first ways we hold our bow classic not like this say that we're still at Beast you can still go like this and we go all the way to the gym and then a spider call I'm going to slide my hand down the Frog the nudist where I'm putting the tip of my thumb now there's that little curve right here going to put the tip of your thumb right there and then stick that little white part right there this direction in a pinky is right here this is the correct oil help my son is nice and it's not nice can we play a game and classify these are all bad habits queso from here to stick with the index finger and Pinky on top wiper washers any kind of scene. how to change your butt hole we play little games to get that solidified next I'm going to show you where again this is why it's important that you hold your breath so we do something called This is it coming in the land right there notice the proper Bohol shoot you should have a square shape from the chip Shear here's a square everything is squared up that should be the center of my bow and I'm going to play my D string Nordstrom Racks like this K if you're playing with your arm like that you're both going to show this way you want to pull up from your like a scarecrow your solder from your elbow to your house shoulder up there in the race. And that will help you recognize which way is on airplane mode right. how to relax tight arm let the natural weight of your arm be what gives you the tone on your instrument cancel crunch if you're not eating enough you don't have enough you're going to be all over the bridge and you want to pull of your arm from your elbow to your wrist just like what I always say in class Rock on

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