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Oh my goodness girl, the way you shake the bow at the end, so impressive!! I have wanted to play violin since I can remember but just don't have the money for lessons and all. But I have been praying about it and I read that if you ask something of God you need to act like you know that He is giving it to you now. so I am☺

I’m glad you’ve said you can still tune a string with the tuner Pegs loose at bottom as I have managed to temporarily fix this issue by tightening at the top and was even contemplating buying a new violin ❤

hello, thanks for your videos ! I'm a pianist (and therefor my fingers are well trained and flexible) trying to learn violin by myself, and I noticed that my right pinky floats above the bow : sometimes it stays gently on it, but often it's above, "free in the air" :-D . I saw that because I took a video of me playing open strings For sure it's due to the piano habits, where fingers when they don't play, often stay flexible above the keys, "waiting their turn". Is this pinky floating something important I need to fix, or is it without consequences when bowing ? Thank you !

Thank you for helping!

Thank you for these videos, having the tunes to think of will really help my intonation. (I have written them down).

Thank you Lora most useful. The only thing is being in england I don't know the nbc theme..😅

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Thank you for this exercise. I've been playng violin during 4 or 5 years when I was yung but I never tried to to a vibrato. Indeed i think vibrato gives life to sound and bring it to another dimension. So now, I'd like to take violin in my hands a new time, with irish music. I will follow your videos. If it is possible, I'd like to ask you specidic advices about using the bow.

Have a student starting this piece today - thank you for your resource! One note though, it appears to actually be in E Dorian mode, always C#, always D-natural. So playing the E melodic minor scale, with D# ascending and C natural descending isn't actually helpful. It actually uses the notes of the D scale (F# and C#) from E to E, thus the Dorian mode.

Hello from the cold n freezing North Alberta Canada I am a brand new student just purchased a violin online. Right away going through your lesson on the shoulder rest and looking at your left arm and hand I can't seem to turn my arm and wrist to allow my fingers to touch the strings. I find it very hard twisting and reaching the strings. Any idea on how to over-come this problem? Now I know why parents get the children who are more flexible to learning the violin at a young age. George

Laura, this is different from what my excellent teacher taught me years ago. What I learned was it was all about the ball of the finger rolling back and forth, nothing to do with the arm. I'm not rejecting your instructions, just noting that it's a different school of thought than what I was taught. I laid down the violin and have returned to it as a retiree and I intend to do your exercises.

Belt and braces and very very clear exposition. Thank You.

I used to have such an effortless arm vibrato until one day when a student of mine asked to learn wrist vibrato. Apparently they weren’t allowed to use arm vibrato in orchestra class. I’m still trying to recover from my wonky wrist vibrato years later.

This is on lesson 15? Ok I need to start from the beginning lol

Is it really a good idea to get into the habit of leaving the fingers on the string? Looking ahead to learning vibrato this would then be an ingrained habit that needs breaking. Not better to just do the right thing from the start?

Great instruction!

My damn finger is just fat I guess 😂

So we did 1 octave here on each scale? I’m currently doing 2 octaves so 4 strings for CDFA scales. How do I do 3rd octave? I gotta go to second position or is it 3rd or 4th position?

Thank you for clear demo.

i am 68 now started 1 1/2 month ago. And i love it.

Fabulous!!! Everyone played beautifully and it came together so well!

Wunderbar!

I agree with everything. I started when I was almost 50. Now I play in the orchestra with increasingly challenging pieces. There is no age limit. Our only limit is believing that we can't reach certain levels because we are not very young. Of course, the violin is no picnic but everything can be overcome with willpower and passion

All of you sound beautiful!

So helpful! Thank so so much!

That was so lovely!

Thank you so much for this. I will keep practicing this

Brought a tear to my eye watching people of all ages make such beautiful music. thank you!! Raise your bows to another year of violin growth!

I spied a couple of familiar faces from another academy!!! Great job!!

Nicely done!

Beautiful! Mission accomplished.

Thanks Lora and Alex. Happy New Year 🎉. -Lynn D

Thank you! I see myself so much in all of this!

I subscribe to your channel because this detailed and helpful information! thanks !

Thank you so much for this, and for Silent Night! I just recently started learning violin and it was really cool to be able to play Silent Night over Christmas for my family and now Auld Lang Syne for New Year's. You have great content!

Thank you so much!! I haven’t been able to find any videos that could help me but this one was just what I needed! Thanks!

This is the first truly helpful video I seen on bowing. Thank you

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My dad made me watch this but got sucked in the second I started viewing . Thanks!

I continued by having my student play the octave double stop , in order to see whether it's 'out' or not - it is however, difficult to figure what a student is hearing, exactly

We had not used a tuner much, and they weren't available when I started , but recent my violin student had been using one to tune ; and subsequently to use in a song - occasionally. I try to get her to compare the d on the a string to the open D , and tell her it's the same note . She has a bit of difficulty'matching' the sound; the concep of the octave complicates the process

Invaluable Advice. Thanks

That's a very appreciated effort and beyond the great quality of content, Thank You

I see your vision, to me it is the language of the emotions.

❤these lessons .Thanks

Thank you soo much ma'am....❤

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This is genuinely brilliant I have relieved shoulder and neck pain that I’ve had for years and my vibrato is far better also as a result