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Added Sep 17, 2020 •

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Here is a little more information like how to rosin your bow and what a bow lift looks like. I mention wiping your violin/viola off each time you play it. You can use a clean towel or as I said some cases come with a fabric cover for your instrument and you could use that.

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just a couple more things you can practice your bow hold just with a pencil your llama eating a stick practice holding it just like this you can do it with any kind of like writing utensil do we not getting that nice tilt I also wanted to talk about rosin which should have come with your instrument if not really needs rosin across the street and the reason for that is because they have not rosin their bow just like a gymnast the bars are a Bose need to have rosin this is a pine sap and what it does is it has it's like when you rosin your bow what is it pretty little microscopic pieces of glass if you look at a rosin on a boat on bow hair it looks like little pieces of jagged pieces of glass and you need that on there because what it does is it Rich the string so when each one of those pieces of glasses with a across and glass Holy Cross they're plucking strings reading vibration sound so you have to have rosin on your boat breakfast ring get a good search and rosin is really wonderful thing to do to practice your vocal you can even rosin your bow at the Ballast Point like this I just found that sometimes you have to de-stress it a little bit and get your student right hold it like this write in practice Bowen but you really kind of have to press hard to get that rosin in there and that can be tricky with these early beginning bow hold for students to do keep on practicing keep on pressing you got to press 3 hard into the router not as hard on your violin or Viola but get that bow rosin up and you can practice both directions this way you can do it anyway you want and just because rosin powder You is kind of why you definitely want to do it I learned my lesson I did not want my violin Offspring years as a young student and it will kind of settle in and accumulating unless you pay a violin with your to strip it with a special chemical and it's expensive you're wiping your instruments especially right here where the bow is going to be playing and depositing rosin residue so always to last tip of the day before you put it away because just like us human about can't be strong uptight all the time we need to relax Tebow hair so that your bow the wooden part of your boat to relax you're resting and be ready to be able to play beautifully when you pull it out and tighten it to play again Rock on

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