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Scales, scales, scales.... dead fish?

December 28, 2008 16:12

I'm just working on 3 scales at the moment, the most basic: G, A and C, and it is driving me up the walls. My intonation has improved alot, before, i cannot hear anything above the high E, and now I can hear them.

Now.... fingering, what the!???? I remember in piano, fingerings for scales are fairly standard, but I'm like, every scale has a different fingering in violin?? I'm using the Barbara Barber scale book, and so far, G and A is okay, I can play them, but for the G scales, I shift on the A string, but on the A scales, I shift on the E string. (teacher told me to do so), then on the C major scale, she asked me to start on first finger (and will do so for everything else), and my book does not have those fingerings.

What kind of fingerings do you use? Is there a standard somewhere at least for beginners?

These are all 3 octave scales I'm referring to. :)

Scales... so annoying, yet so useful. Oh.... someone please rescue me from dominant and diminished 7ths. Can't hear them at all! LOL

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Why can't I memorize music?

December 1, 2008 00:58

I am so ashamed of myself that I did not have ONE piece memorized after playing the violin for a year. I went to my uncle's place, took out the violin (my old VSO and he wanted to borrow it) and start practicing some scales. My uncle ask me to play something for him, and for the life of me, I cannot even play anything entirely from memory. I am not a Suzuki student, and I did not memorize any of the pieces. I just realized that I cannot play without looking at music!!!

I suddenly remembered bits and pieces of Reiding B minor, but I have not played that in 6 months. I only remembered maybe the first page and a half... I'm very ashamed.

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