September 2014

11 Quick Tips to Playing in Tune in Higher Positions

• Know your pitches, Laser focus on pitch -  Listen and feel how it affects your ear


• Know where you are shifting from and where you are shifting to


• Know the fingerboard as a grid


• Compare to open strings, constantly play an open sting for a drone


• Don't jump to the new position - stay in contact with the fingerboard


• Practice etudes specifically in higher positions


• Practice Scales going across the instrument not only up the instrument

Love and Light

Heather Broadbent
www.onlineviolin.net

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