![]() ![]() It is also slightly slower than arco in that you can play faster by bowing. It’s often more quiet, but adds a new dimension to the piece. It’s a great alternative to the arco method. You an do this on an open string, or you can use this method while placing a finger down on the specific string on which you want to play your note. Using this technique, you are going to use your finger to pluck the violin and cause the string to vibrate. Pizzicato is an Italian term roughly translated as “pinched” or “plucked”. Nevertheless, there are several different ways we can make notes on the violin. ![]() This may be more appropriately described as the types of “sounds” the violin can produce. The violin is able to play up to a C8 using what some refer to as artificial harmonics. However, the violin is also capable of what we call harmonic pitches. Again, depending on the player and the length of the fingerboard, you MAY be able to play higher. This is two octaves above the open E string (an E5). The usual limit of a normal pitch on the violin is an E7. It often times depends on the skill of the player and the physical abilities of the violin you are playing. The highest pitch the violin can produce is a little more difficult to pin down. Sometimes this G string is tuned lower, but for the most part, this is the general pitch the lowest string is tuned to. The lowest note the violin can produce is the G3. The violin strings are G3, D4, A4, and E5. The range of notes you can make on your violinįor those musical scientists out there, I want to give you specific pitches for the range of the violin. The 4th finger lands about 3/4 of an inch beyond the third finger. ![]() The third finger lands a little less than a half an inch beyond the 2nd finger. The second finger lands about an inch or a little less beyond the 1st finger location. On a full size violin, a regular 1st finger starts about an inch and a quarter above the nut. This is the position that starts closest to your nut. If we stay with this concept, you would use your 1st finger, 2nd finger, and 3rd finger in first position on your violin. Still, there are performers who are quite capable of doing just that and they routinely show the world the full breath and beauty of what the violin can do. You can make notes all the way up to the end of your fingerboard, but we generally don’t play notes that high in most circumstances due to the fact that it is more difficult to make a note that high in pitch pleasing to the ear. This is the reason I either add tape for finger location indicators for my students, or I have them purchase a finger location method like the “Don’t Fret” finger locat0r system. They have mathematically predetermined locations on the fingerboard. Theoretically, you can produce harmonics between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge, but we generally don’t because there’s so much rosin at that location and it wouldn’t produce a pleasing sound. When you see an F#, you'll know to press your middle finger on the D string.There are only two ways to make a simple note on the violin: play an open string, or press your finger down on the fingerboard of your violin between the nut and the end of the fingerboard. So, for example, when you see a D, you know that will be the open D string. While you practice pressing your fingers on the string in order, memorize the fingers that match the notes in the music.Subsequent notes will be played by pressing first your index finger, then your middle finger, and so on. Start by playing the A string open (no finger pressing the string). After you have placed your pinky finger on the D string and you have played that note, move to the next string (the A string) to play the next note in this scale.Play the next three notes on the D scale by placing your middle, then ring, then pinky fingers on the string.You are now playing the next note up on the D scale, or C#. Place your index finger on the D string and play.Start by drawing your bow across the D string without pressing it down.The notes on each string will ascend in tone as you place another finger down on the string. ![]()
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