From sharelle taylor Posted from 121.91.34.17 on January 26, 2008 at 11:22 PM (GMT)
I think its extraordinarily generous of you to post these guides. thankyou, I enjoy them all. I've ordered your book too :)
I'm working on upper arm and bow weighting and stuff like that at the moment, I've landed on my bum - right back in the kiddies corner beginner room. for a while. 'tis a roller coaster to be sure. How can something so natural and obvious become so hard and require so much conscious effort. I've never once thought about how to hang washing on the line, place a delicate cup on a top shelf, paint an architrave, and I know that my arm stays relaxed and guides my hand though a zillion other such tasks, but stick a bow in there and everything goes spac.
From Drew Lecher Posted from 64.53.208.254 on January 27, 2008 at 5:29 AM (GMT)
Sharelle,
Thank you and your book should be there very soon.
Maybe the problem for all of us is "we are playing the violin" and it has to be so very, very, very proper.
Use great posture, easy well-formed and flowing movements, and note how you draw the bow across the strings, just like… "I've never once thought about how to hang washing on the line, place a delicate cup on a top shelf, paint an architrave." (You actually have and they became second nature — the goal of the violinist:-)
So lift the violin in preparation to play as you would the washing on the line; place the not-to-delicately-held bow on the string; and draw the sound as you would paint an architrave with a variety of stroke styles — making it beautiful.
Watch and observe what works and what doesn't, keeping the working stuff and shedding the rest. So much is just not duplicating the bad and only replicating the good.
Tell your hands and arms what you want them to do and not all the things they shouldn't.
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Posted from 121.91.34.17 on January 26, 2008 at 11:22 PM (GMT)
I'm working on upper arm and bow weighting and stuff like that at the moment, I've landed on my bum - right back in the kiddies corner beginner room. for a while. 'tis a roller coaster to be sure. How can something so natural and obvious become so hard and require so much conscious effort. I've never once thought about how to hang washing on the line, place a delicate cup on a top shelf, paint an architrave, and I know that my arm stays relaxed and guides my hand though a zillion other such tasks, but stick a bow in there and everything goes spac.
Posted from 64.53.208.254 on January 27, 2008 at 5:29 AM (GMT)
Thank you and your book should be there very soon.
Maybe the problem for all of us is "we are playing the violin" and it has to be so very, very, very proper.
Use great posture, easy well-formed and flowing movements, and note how you draw the bow across the strings, just like… "I've never once thought about how to hang washing on the line, place a delicate cup on a top shelf, paint an architrave." (You actually have and they became second nature — the goal of the violinist:-)
So lift the violin in preparation to play as you would the washing on the line; place the not-to-delicately-held bow on the string; and draw the sound as you would paint an architrave with a variety of stroke styles — making it beautiful.
Watch and observe what works and what doesn't, keeping the working stuff and shedding the rest. So much is just not duplicating the bad and only replicating the good.
Tell your hands and arms what you want them to do and not all the things they shouldn't.
It's a great journey — ENJOY!!!
Drew