hello this is Julia Bush Cova and today
I'm going to continue with the basics
left hand today I will address mechanics
of the fingers and placement of all the
fingers on the string in the first
position if you started playing from the
second finger as I described in my
previous video in that case you need to
now be able to fit your first finger
behind the second if that's your case
that's what what you will do when you
were placing your second and third and
maybe even fourth you undoubtedly were
touching with the side of the index
finger to the neck that's fine now you
want to be able to come off slightly
come off the neck just like that so you
can see that there is a little bit of
space between the side of your index
finger and the neck your thumb might
need to go slightly under and that is
what I mean by slightly under not this
just like that so with this you will put
in your first finger so the string will
be touching more of the left side of
your index finger that is a correct way
you want to see that the side of the
index finger remains straight what you
do not want to do is to have it go here
again I think that if you go from second
to first you are less likely to develop
that bad habit so here you are and you
can position all four fingers if you
already did that fourth if not leave the
first the fourth off and just have the
three the functioning and the fingers
regardless of how you start with the
first finger up or with a two three four
and then first will be happening from
the base joint always from the base
joint we never
open up so if you have all four fingers
here's how you can do it it's you can
press here and there and experience it
very in very relaxed way the first
finger which is placed a bit further
back correct so it's slightly further
back it has less of this feel although
it still works from the base knuckle
however the first finger is the only one
that sometimes we also add a little bit
of the middle knuckle function very
little none of the other fingers will
ever have that now if we are starting
with more traditional method from the
first finger up what do you do you place
your hand underneath a violin in a
relaxed fashion like this
letting the thumb be where it is you
place it there you put it a bit forward
as I was talking in the video before so
that your second finger will be on the
c-sharp and then you need to make sure
again that you have either a little bit
of space or at least you need to have
the straight line in there and put the
first finger down watch that when you're
pressing down with the first finger it
doesn't press this way if it does this
that is a very wrong thing to do you
don't want to do it it may be just too
much pressure or you are easily
collapsible maybe double-jointed and it
goes this way so you want to be
preserving the straight line here and
pressing on the left side of the first
finger then you place your second then
you place your third and if you're ready
you place your fourth the fourth has to
be placed in the around it supported
fashion if it's difficult if you don't
feel how to do it please watch the new
Stein exercise video and
go from there for the fourth finger so
again here is the first finger you can
work with this just like that up and
down then the second watch the mechanics
here third orbit around with the ball
when I'm working with the third please
notice that the fourth finger stays
relaxed by its side it doesn't go up it
doesn't go to the side it doesn't curl
or it doesn't hang down below you just
want to have that movement there a
natural movement try to do it without
the violin also work with the third
finger allow the fourth finger to come
with it as I call it okay so here we go
the fingers and finally the fourth the
fingers constantly I call it look at the
fingerboard so if they have little eyes
here they always look at the fingerboard
they never go away from the fingerboard
again when you've really first started
please don't play that fast you have to
play slower and when you take the finger
off you need to experience full complete
relaxation so on/off and relaxed this
one is on it will be off and relaxed on
both and relaxed and it's like right now
pressing for the note on/off and relaxed
okay so these are the basic mechanics of
the finger movements I hope it has been
helpful to you
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