Secretly Find That Note 🎶

In this lesson clip on Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, Timothy Chooi suggests you do a quick “finger knock” to help yourself find the pitch. This sneaky move is inaudible to an audience but is so helpful for passages like this where it is so easy to miss that note.
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[@OttoKuus]

"The pianist, in your situation"

[@israbokoo3220]

Such a classy trash talk, isn’t it?😂

[@JSB2500]

Brilliant! No magic - just musical strategy and skill!

[@amandacollecutt2491]

Nice tip. Thanks

[@JoachimDubled-vx9yy]

Thanks for the knowledge 🙏

[@maricerati]

Thanks!

[@fatehzaghal5084]

That is so smart

[@JSB2500]

Maxim Vengerov does this sort of thing, and always looks happy and relaxed once he's done it and knows that the next note will be in tune!
I copied him safe in the knowledge that if anyone criticises me, I'm not doing something that Vengerov wouldn't do! 🤭

[@KamilBouDiab]

Honestly that’s the most relatable thing I’ve ever read, I do that with most pieces, trying to imitate how famous musicians play it and their techniques

[@JSB2500]

​@@KamilBouDiabGreat! This is the main way I learned the violin - by carefully studying Chloë Hanslip, Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, Ray Chen, Esther Abrami, and at the moment Jack Liebeck, and others. There's just so much to learn, and you can compare your sound with theirs and keep learning from them until you sound the same, and so on.
One thing I've noticed with the violin, is that EVERYTHING matters. Everything they do with their body is relevant and necessary in some way (unlike some other instruments). So we need to do it too.
So often students do something entirely different to the pros, e.g. re vibrato, and wonder why they don't sound so good...

[@adriandreamwalker1027]

Ha! In my situation, I don't have a pianist either. Gotcha!

[@Ian-sn9qk]

What piece is this?

[@justusvm355]

Zigeunerweisen by Sarasate

[@jcoughlin100]

How can you hear it if the orchestra/piano is loud?

[@astroneural]

With a soloist's violin (which is very capable of projecting) it should always be audible next to your ear as the violinist

[@Fluff-gl6yr]

If your face is in contact with the instrument these things tend to be much easier to hear. As a cellist I sometimes shove the pegs into my ear to make sure I can hear the note when I do this kind of thing 😂

[@Kevin_S-z6w]

Who is the violinist?

[@xX_JohnCena69_Xx]

Timothy Chooi

[@Kevin_S-z6w]

@@xX_JohnCena69_Xx Thank you!

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👍

[@MAC-je7mr]

Eine kleine ‘knock’musik

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

hey that's cheating!!!

[@JSB2500]

Nooooo! 😆

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