hello this is julia bushkova
and today i'm going to address the issue
of chords
playing chords in faster tempo fast
tempo
up and down and
this video i must say right away is not
for the beginners at all it's an
advanced level playing chords
so what we already know about chord
playing is that our hand has to be
loose enough relaxed enough so that when
we are
going on a string we can use whatever
pressure is necessary
but not more than that and not from the
wrong
part of the hand on down bow i believe i
already addressed it in my previous
video
and now i will mostly address the upper
chords
so if you never played chords the three
note chords
up bow at once all together i would
suggest that you still
play first play them broken put
bow on two strings and
nicely break it to the next two strings
okay
so then what you do uh and what
how you do it at the that's at this
moment i
make sure that my third finger here
is completely relaxed my third and
fourth all that side of the hand has to
be
staying relaxed what is working on the
index and somewhat the
middle finger okay the rest
is not really participating uh as you
can see
if you're breaking chords you can start
really all the way up
here close to the tip uh later the
when you want to play chords as three
notes together
you will not go that far because it will
be harder
although possible let's see
how you can make the same thing a bit
faster break
so we're going closer to three notes
together what i'm doing i am
starting with no pressure at all i'm
putting the ball on the string no
pressure i'm very
loose everything is relaxed here then i
am getting
into the bow just like this
if you can see
i am pressing right now with only index
finger
and i am getting the stick into the hair
again one more time
and as i start the chord that's when i
add this movement
not before you don't want to press and
then go
because you will get that sound so you
want to start and
dive in as you start okay then it gives
you this
nice round sound all right now
if we want to play the chord less broken
and it will be like this
so what i'm doing pretty much the same
i'm positioning the bow
on in this case uh on a string since i'm
playing d
a and a i'm positioning and now you can
see i took
already i'm placing the bow a bit closer
to the middle
so right here and and i'm
going to dive in with the first finger
and somewhat second
right at the start of the movement so in
fact
in fact you can try to do this
without moving the bow yeah you can do
it so it
uh what for this i would suggest that
you have your hair
not too tight like this will be good
in general i do not recommend very tight
here
especially when you want to play chords
uh it's important not to over tighten it
of course not to have it too loose
either
but here we are what you can see right
now what i will do i'm positioning the
bow on a string
and and right now i'm exactly in the
middle so go exactly to the middle
make sure all fingers are relaxed now
this first finger
alone will do the job right now i'm
seeing how my the hair of the bow is
actually now is on all three strings
and d and a and e and i am an a
and i'm just pressed it all down yeah
it's touching all three strings here
so again you have to experiment with how
much tension
of your hair of the hair of the bow you
want to have
it will be different depending on your
bow stick
okay so here we are if i am pressing
down and i'm
capable of pressing enough of a string
down
we can try it at the frog it will be
even easier of course because frog is
heavier
also you can just try it here you will
see that you can depress the
a string enough so that your bow is
actually
lying on all three strings so that is
what you're going for
when you're starting the ball up but
again
very importantly don't press before you
start press
as you start and then you have three
notes together
again
now you can see that i'm using this
particular chord
the d is open and b and g
are depressed it is easier
therefore we have to start from that
another easier
version would be for instance the a
minor chord
again here you will have e string higher
because it's not depressed
and the d and a will be depressed
and you can play with enough correct
pressure
never on the side of the third finger
all three notes at once
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the same obviously can be done on a g
string
and the d and a i suggest that you
always start
playing the chords the hard chords never
start with the very hard chords
card chords are those where you depress
evenly all the
strings and especially those who have
fifths
don't start with those chords to
experiment how you want to play it in
the right hand start with easier chord
and get the point
then you can easily transfer it to the
harder chords
okay so now the issue of playing several
simultaneously chord in fast tempo
together
here again i want to emphasize that it's
very important not to have any tension
pre-existing tension in the hand before
you start
so when you put the bow on the string
actually a lot of times we
start slightly from the air because here
if i want to play three notes and it
will be
and i will repeat them uh it will be
pretty aggressive movement
so here uh nothing is
extra not i'm not squeezing
what do you see you see that i am in the
lower part
it's much easier to be here rather than
doing the same thing here
let's see if it even works
well i guess it works but it is harder i
have to use much
more much more pressure here to get the
same results so
i would opt to be in the optimal part
again
each bow is different okay so you will
find
the best part of the bow for you but
most likely it will be
right before the winding somewhere or
maybe right there
into slightly into your hand not too
much at the frog not exactly the frog
now
but somewhere where you have the give of
the stick already
so how do i do it well
i put the bow on a string as i said
i allow to wrap i
press down and therefore the
hair is wrapped on all three strings
and then i start and that is a pretty
um straightforward pressure it's just
important that it doesn't come from this
part of the hand
so here we can start the same thing on a
bow
it really doesn't make much difference
there is a bit more effort of course for
me to press it down
uh with the first with the index finger
here
but as you can see eventually it doesn't
matter so if the pressure stays down
you don't do any of this
as i call it the harder chords the same
thing
let's say what should i have um
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or
that or another cord
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so the important thing here is that to
control where exactly the bow
is placed for the three uh note chords
in the first tempo like that two at the
time
um you of course want to be slightly
away from the middle
not too close to the bridge obviously it
will be the hardest part here
for the pressure right so so if a little
bit closer to the fingerboard is okay
as long as it's not too close and then
otherwise sound will start breaking
okay so this of course we have in the
paganini
capris in the variation i believe it's
an eighth variation
24th capris uh and the beginning of that
uh
playing basically as people nowadays
play
more with slurs
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in the ferganini caprice of course the
situation is compounded with the fact
that you have to move from first
position to third position
and therefore of course the bow has to
accommodate that you have to move the
bow slightly for that next chord
so that technique allows you to play uh
for instance the two chords
on one bow uh since at this point you
know how to start the chord
pretty far in the bow and still play
three notes for instance like this
so just again what happens here i have a
lot of effort goes into this muscle
and therefore you can start the chord
that far
you can also start course started closer
to the middle much easier
so that's pretty much it i hope it has
been helpful
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