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stage fright playing the violin performing the violin tips to help musicians by violinist sue aston
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Sue Aston has appeared on professional classical recordings, radio broadcasts, and television, both nationally and internationally, and worked with eminent musicians such as Simon Rattle, Nigel Kennedy, Peter Donohoe, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Charles Groves, and Esa Pekka Salonen.
Stage Fright
One of the commonest and most natural problems of playing the violin – or indeed any instrument – occurs when the time finally comes to perform in public. This could arise either during a concert or in an exam situation. I have suffered from severe nerves and stage fright myself, so I understand how awful fellow performers and pupils feel. The approach I use to help myself comes under four headings: - Preparation, Visualisation, Breathing, and Exposure ...
Celtic Cornwall CDs DVDs Celtic Classical Music from Cornish Composer and proffessional violinist Sue Aston
Stage Fright
One of the commonest and most natural problems of playing the violin – or indeed any instrument – occurs when the time finally comes to perform in public. This could arise either during a concert or in an exam situation. I have suffered from severe nerves and stage fright myself, so I understand how awful fellow performers and pupils feel. The approach I use to help myself comes under four headings: - Preparation, Visualisation, Breathing, and Exposure ...
Celtic Cornwall CDs DVDs Celtic Classical Music from Cornish Composer and proffessional violinist Sue Aston
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Violin Music Through the Ages:
I was given the choice to learn the violin when I was around 8, but unfortunately my parents could only afford once-a-week group lessons with an old drunk who was associated in the 1950's with the public school system in the Bronx. Believe it or not, although I stuck with it for two years this man never taught the seven children in his class how to hold the violin in the way proper for classical music -- instead we held them like Appalachian fiddlers! One Christmas my father gave me a factory-made violin he got from the Sears catalog for $25. I was so proud, but when I showed it to my teacher he said, "I told your father not to buy a cheap piece of cheesebox like this!" and almost threw it on the ground with disgust. Neither my playing -- nor my violin, it seems -- ever pleased this man ...
I was given the choice to learn the violin when I was around 8, but unfortunately my parents could only afford once-a-week group lessons with an old drunk who was associated in the 1950's with the public school system in the Bronx. Believe it or not, although I stuck with it for two years this man never taught the seven children in his class how to hold the violin in the way proper for classical music -- instead we held them like Appalachian fiddlers! One Christmas my father gave me a factory-made violin he got from the Sears catalog for $25. I was so proud, but when I showed it to my teacher he said, "I told your father not to buy a cheap piece of cheesebox like this!" and almost threw it on the ground with disgust. Neither my playing -- nor my violin, it seems -- ever pleased this man ...
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How to Play the Violin
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection:
This is a list of tips on how to play the violin.
When holding the neck of your violin, ensure your wrist is curved and your posture is perfect in order to create a rich tone.
Make sure your left wrist does not "collapse". You should support your violin with your neck and shoulder. Your left hand must be free to move, though you can bring your thumb underneath a bit to slightly counterbalance your fingers.
Keep your fingernails trimmed short. This is important for a clear sound. You should depress the strings with the tips of your fingers on your left hand and you won't do that well with long fingernails. Also, a good vibrato will not be achieved with long fingernails ...
From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection:
This is a list of tips on how to play the violin.
When holding the neck of your violin, ensure your wrist is curved and your posture is perfect in order to create a rich tone.
Make sure your left wrist does not "collapse". You should support your violin with your neck and shoulder. Your left hand must be free to move, though you can bring your thumb underneath a bit to slightly counterbalance your fingers.
Keep your fingernails trimmed short. This is important for a clear sound. You should depress the strings with the tips of your fingers on your left hand and you won't do that well with long fingernails. Also, a good vibrato will not be achieved with long fingernails ...
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Fiddle Physics: How violins make sound:
The best way to understand how an object makes sound is to bake it tackwards. Sound reaches the ear as repeating waves of compressed and decompressed air. These sound waves are created by something vibrating -- the vocal cords of Howlin' Wolf, the tongs of a tuning fork, the body of a violin. The violin body is stimulated to vibrate by the bridge, which is wedged under the vibrating strings. The strings, in turn, are moved by the bow.
If we want to fake it torwards, the arm moves the bow, which moves the strings, which moves the bridge, which moves the violin body, which moves the air, which moves the ear drum, which makes nerve signals, which cause the brain to instruct the parental yap to whine, "Keep practicing! You're a tad flat!" ...
The best way to understand how an object makes sound is to bake it tackwards. Sound reaches the ear as repeating waves of compressed and decompressed air. These sound waves are created by something vibrating -- the vocal cords of Howlin' Wolf, the tongs of a tuning fork, the body of a violin. The violin body is stimulated to vibrate by the bridge, which is wedged under the vibrating strings. The strings, in turn, are moved by the bow.
If we want to fake it torwards, the arm moves the bow, which moves the strings, which moves the bridge, which moves the violin body, which moves the air, which moves the ear drum, which makes nerve signals, which cause the brain to instruct the parental yap to whine, "Keep practicing! You're a tad flat!" ...
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