Dear Professor Fitzpatrick, your Méditation de Thaïs, you play on this video, is done SO beautifully! I’m 60, and trying to learn violin, again, after any years, for the benefit of my brain and love of violin music! I feel encouraged by you!
This is amazing information! I'm traveling right now, but I'll be sure to look into your book once I get back home. It sounds like it would be incredibly useful to me. I'm in the process of getting my undergraduate degree, but I do feel that my technical skills are lacking in preparation for auditioning for grad schools. I want it to match up with where my musicality is so I can get into a conservatory. I'm lucky enough to have that level of teacher right now at a more generic university. I can get really into the music, but some of the technical stuff stumps me. Particularly that 3rd finger downward chromatic scale in Wieniawski 2. I think with slow practice I'll get the rest alright, but that's the hardest part for me. Thank you for making this video!
Glad you liked it! If you have any questions for Prof. FItzpatrick, please, ask them on this video's dedicated page on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
Hi Professor Fitzpatrick! would you consider doing a video on the Yost "Exercises for Change of Position" book? I studied some of it with Margaret Pardee, and it is now--thankfully--available online, but it would be great to get your wonderful insights. Thanks!
This is a great suggestion! Please, post it on this video's dedicated page, because Prof. Fitzpatrick doesn't read comments here on RUclips: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your question. Well, I think yes, but of course your technique would be limited. Some repertoire would be impossible to play. But basically, the answer is YES!
It's a regular full size violin. You can ask any more questions to Prof. Fitzpatrick on this video's page on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
It would work on intonation on all the fingers not just the first. It still doesn't really explain the purpose of this exercise. There are no pieces you will play where you will shift on the same finger consecutively multiple times, so what's the point of even practising this? If you want to work on intonation or shifting then regular scales will suffice.
Have you ever heard of the concept that the violin has really just one position rather than 7? Well, one finger scales are a major ingredient to that sauce. It is about being confortable with lateral movement, not just vertical movement. Another important ingredient is sliding the fingers across different strings rather than lifting them, though that was not discussed in the video. The result of this is, freedom. Freedom from having to think about what position you are in (or what string, for that matter), freedom from being handicapped because you forgot the fingering you were supposed to use. In other words, you learn to just "feel" the fingerboard, with any finger you happen to be using. While having good fingerings is important, not having to be bound to the good fingerings in order to play anything is an amazingly liberating thing, one you experience it. Try listening to a few recordings by Jascha Heifetz, or Ruggiero Ricci, two great practitioners of lateral technique (Ricci is particularly fun to watch on video doing this) Source: I am a strings teacher.
Hi and Thanks! I would like to invite you to have a look at my new "Violin Connections" videos subtitled in English, Spanish and French at violinconnections.selz.com … Stay tuned!
Dear Professor Fitzpatrick, your Méditation de Thaïs, you play on this video, is done SO beautifully! I’m 60, and trying to learn violin, again, after any years, for the benefit of my brain and love of violin music! I feel encouraged by you!
Wonderful!
Love his energy
he is like a magician to me
Glad you like Prof. Fitzpatrick! Check out all other videos by him on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/
Thank you, sir!
This is amazing information! I'm traveling right now, but I'll be sure to look into your book once I get back home. It sounds like it would be incredibly useful to me. I'm in the process of getting my undergraduate degree, but I do feel that my technical skills are lacking in preparation for auditioning for grad schools. I want it to match up with where my musicality is so I can get into a conservatory. I'm lucky enough to have that level of teacher right now at a more generic university. I can get really into the music, but some of the technical stuff stumps me. Particularly that 3rd finger downward chromatic scale in Wieniawski 2. I think with slow practice I'll get the rest alright, but that's the hardest part for me. Thank you for making this video!
Glad you liked it! If you have any questions for Prof. FItzpatrick, please, ask them on this video's dedicated page on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
nice teaching thanks for your video
Thankyou sir.
Most welcome
Hi Professor Fitzpatrick! would you consider doing a video on the Yost "Exercises for Change of Position" book? I studied some of it with Margaret Pardee, and it is now--thankfully--available online, but it would be great to get your wonderful insights. Thanks!
This is a great suggestion! Please, post it on this video's dedicated page, because Prof. Fitzpatrick doesn't read comments here on RUclips: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
thank you very much, maestro❤
You are very welcome
Wow you are an inspiration
Thanks for the video! Amazing tips.
Glad you liked it! Be sure to check out all other lessons by Prof. Fitzpatrick on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/
Thanx!
Good advice for students
Gracias por sus vídeos son muy explicativos :)
De nada!
Schradieck same as hanon =piano but for violin? Any one with knowledge can answer thx
Yes, that's pretty much it ;)
@@virtualsheetmusic thank you
Can you play the violin only with one finger? Or it's only for those who have all fingers?
Good question! These exercises are done for everyone. It helps to reinforce and improve your left hand fingers technique.
@@virtualsheetmusic I mean, if you have only one finger, can you play the violin.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your question. Well, I think yes, but of course your technique would be limited. Some repertoire would be impossible to play. But basically, the answer is YES!
What size violin do you play sir
It's a regular full size violin. You can ask any more questions to Prof. Fitzpatrick on this video's page on VSM: www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/william/one-finger-scales/
What does this technique work on? what are the benefits it hopes to achieve?
It would work on intonation on all the fingers not just the first. It still doesn't really explain the purpose of this exercise. There are no pieces you will play where you will shift on the same finger consecutively multiple times, so what's the point of even practising this? If you want to work on intonation or shifting then regular scales will suffice.
Have you ever heard of the concept that the violin has really just one position rather than 7? Well, one finger scales are a major ingredient to that sauce. It is about being confortable with lateral movement, not just vertical movement.
Another important ingredient is sliding the fingers across different strings rather than lifting them, though that was not discussed in the video.
The result of this is, freedom. Freedom from having to think about what position you are in (or what string, for that matter), freedom from being handicapped because you forgot the fingering you were supposed to use. In other words, you learn to just "feel" the fingerboard, with any finger you happen to be using.
While having good fingerings is important, not having to be bound to the good fingerings in order to play anything is an amazingly liberating thing, one you experience it.
Try listening to a few recordings by Jascha Heifetz, or Ruggiero Ricci, two great practitioners of lateral technique (Ricci is particularly fun to watch on video doing this)
Source: I am a strings teacher.
Now we have Ricci's book Glissando to explore.
@@gafhadly4616 Play Indian violin, entire compositions and improvisations in one finger. ruclips.net/video/l2CoAO72Dz8/видео.html
Too
E poi diventi così
Hi and Thanks! I would like to invite you to have a look at my new "Violin Connections" videos subtitled in English, Spanish and French at violinconnections.selz.com … Stay tuned!
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