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Yes, please feel free to steal my stuff 😂

That’s very kind, thank you Michel!

Thanks for the comment! I respect your opinion.

@@robjazzviolin Thank You for the reply. I would like to share with you my learning experience of the vibrato. I studied with two Galamian students in the past. Both of them used a slightly different approach in executing the vibrato. When they taught me, they all used exactly the same method. At first, start with the wrist vibrato at the 3rd position, 2nd finger.. IF the student cannot stop the motion in the arm right below the wrist, then make the wrist touching the violin body to ensure rigidity of the arm. Rotate the tip of the finger backward. After the student has secured and feel very comfortable to play music with this kind of wrist vibrato, introduce the student to ARM vibrato. In both vibrato, the student must learn to increase and decrease the speed of the vibrato and also changing from narrow to wider vibrato and from wide to narrow. Simply speaking the student can change the intensity of the vibrato together with crescendo and decrescendo. After the student has also secured a good ARM vibrato, have the student adding ARM vibrato to the wrist vibrato when more intensity is needed. In this case, the student would have the flexibility of using the arm vibrato to add a more intensive vibrato to the wrist vibrato. One may say wrist vibrato can be more intensive too. However, the EFFECT is different when the wrist vibrato is assisted by the arm. At this point, it will be the student 's decision and experiment of what kind of vibrato desired. When I listen to a violinist with a CONSTANT VIBRATO STYLE, SUCH AS SAME SPEED, SAME width, same intensity THROUGH OUT THE MUSIC, TO ME, this kind of playing is VERY BORING. A good vibrato is to add color and emotional feeling to the music. Violinist Irvy Gitlis greatly used his VIBRATO skill to enhance his tone. Modern violinist Nicola Benedetti also uses a variety of vibrato skill in interpreting her music. One must read Galamian's book called Principles of Violin PLaying and Teaching, ( Prentice Hall ) and his student SIMON Fischer's book called BASICS ( 300 exercises and practice routines for the violin, Edition Peters). Thank You for reading.

I also studied with a couple of Galamian students. One of them told me, “there’s more than one way to get to San Francisco.”

@@robjazzviolin HAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Aaron, at the time I was using a Boss RC-20XL. I’ve since upgraded to the RC-500 with an FS-6 dual foot switch hooked up to it so I can control more functions with my feet. I’ve also added a separate volume pedal to my setup in addition to the ME-80 multi-effects pedal I was using in the video. That way I don’t have to keep bending over to adjust the volume for each layer of the loop! Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any more questions!

Hi Richard! Here is a video about how I made the backing track: ruclips.net/video/2dbM_62vgV0/видео.html It was all done with my violin! I'm love the feel of this groove as well! It's cool that you're feeling the same thing!

The chords are: Ebmaj | Abmaj13 | C-11, Ebmaj/G, Abmaj9 | C-11, Ebmaj/G, Abmaj9 |

Thank you, I’m so happy you found it helpful!

Hi Richard! Try bowing on an open string while fingering a note or notes with vibrato on a different string. This will teach your hands to be independent and focus on getting a smooth and even sound on the open string. Let me know if that helps!

@@robjazzviolin I'll try that, thank you.

Hello! Thanks for watching! There’s a couple things I don’t like about your comment. The first thing is, you need a new teacher if your teacher is getting frustrated with you as an older adult trying to learn vibrato. You can only do what you can do, and what you can do is enough! Maybe you can learn to produce and beautiful tone without vibrato, and that’s ok! The other thing I don’t like about your comment is your mindset. Rather than saying “no matter what I do I can’t get vibrato,” say “I can’t do vibrato YET.” You could also say, “I can express myself on the violin without vibrato, and that’s ok and it’s beautiful.” We all have limitations, whether we’re professionals who’ve been playing our whole lives, or adults who start later in life. Embrace your limitations and see the beauty in what you can do.

Perhaps it is my perception that she has gotten frustrated. If I continue to experience this, I will have a conversation with her. I never expected to get as far as I have gotten, at the end of Suzuki book 6, and I can play shorter pieces quite well. Thanks for the input. @@robjazzviolin

Thanks for listening!

That’s great Ken! Thanks for the kind words. I’m glad you found me!

That’s great, glad you found it helpful Todd!

Thank you Robert!

No, I’m not thinking about each note name. I’m projecting the sound and the motor movements in my head, so that by the time I actually play it I’ve already played it in my head.

Glad you liked it!

Thank you so much Alice!

@@robjazzviolin tbh I have an Audition coming up in a week and I'm so underprepared and I'm still trying to memorize my pieces and this just helped alot

That’s great, I’m so happy it was helpful!

Thank you very much!

Thanks for your question! To start, if you have the Max Rostal edition of the Flesch, in the back of the book on p 124 there is a template for 4 octave scales that you can transpose. The Galamian scale book has 4 octave scales and arpeggios written out in a number of keys. You can also try the Simon Fischer scale book which probably has the most highly evolved approach.

@@robjazzviolin thanks for the tips! I’ve looked in those books, but they seem to use different fingerings. Perhaps it’s good to learn more than one fingering, but I was hoping to find a consensus for a standard fingering that would be the easiest for fast 4 octave scales. Perhaps there is no consensus. Which book do you think has the best 4 octave scale/arpeggio fingering?

@@jcoughlin100 try them all and choose the fingerings that work best for YOU! It may be a hybrid of the suggested fingerings in those books that gives you the most ease, reliable intonation and speed.

Hi Eugenie, thanks for watching! Yes, using a forearm motion at the elbow is great to achieve the oscillation of the fingertip if that’s what works for you. I hope that answers your question!

@@robjazzviolin thank you!!!

Thanks for watching Kay!

That’s great Andrea, thank you!

Thanks for watching! Was the video helpful? Are you still having trouble getting your vibrato to work the way you want?

@@robjazzviolin You're welcome 🙂 I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, though. Vibrato was introduced to me a few weeks ago, so my expectations may be way too unrealistic for my level (fast speed). Maybe start at the slowest speed and gain momentum after getting comfortable with it? 🤔

Thank you for watching!

Hi Sergio, here you go: www.8notes.com/scores/24152.asp Lots of free music on this site

@@robjazzviolin Thank you very much!