A violin can be an intimidating musical instrument its beautiful to look at and listen to but a violin requires an extraordinary amount of education and discipline to be played properly. If youre thinking of taking violin lessons but feel anxious about it, familiarize yourself with the instrument. Heres an introduction to the art of playing the violin.
As you probably know, a violinist rests his or her chin and left shoulder on the conveniently named shoulder rest of the violin and sounds the instrument by plucking the strings and/or drawing a bow across them. One reason a violin is so much more difficult to play than a guitar or other stringed instrument, is there are no frets. A violinist must finger a string ever so precisely.
A violin player uses his or her left hand to pluck the strings; beginners might want to put pieces of tape on the instrument to show where notes are located, so they can place their fingers in the correct spots. Moreover, for purposes of learning proper hand placement, a persons index finger is labeled 1, and his or her pinky finger is as expected, 4 in most instructional booklets, the notes to be played are accompanied by numbers for...
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