i guess im randomly asking but does someone know a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
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I am an adult beginner, and have only been playing for under a year. Your instruction helps in ways that I cannot describe other than to say it is so concise and easy to comprehend. thanks for all of this great information. It inspires me to work hard.
Excellent exercise! Helped me to make my left arm more loose and flexible. It also helped me to straighten my pinky - And, of course, it is helping my shifting. Thank you!!
Thank you for your excellent instruction and for providing these materials. Helpful and inspiring! Thank you for so generously sharing your gifts, skills, knowledge.
Thank you for sharing your videos, I totally agreed with your left arm shifting between positions, And basically, I teach my students to practice slowly with a very light glissando at the beginning of shifting positions! So later they can do the same without glissando just by shifting fingers and arm exactly at the same time.
Hi Daniel, wonderful idea of Gingold`s. thanks for sharing it. I hate to see great ideas getting lost with the passage of time. As I was watching it I thought it might be interesting to graft the ‘ghost note’ practice method that Simon Fischer advocates in his works so that the mind is very carefully programmed as to how the shift works. The example that immediately springs to mind is the section in his book ‘Warming up.’ Regards, Buri
Stephen Brivati indeed! If we’re talking Fischer and considering what the most masochistic thing might be, how about doing this shifting exercise but always bowing on a neighboring open string? Truly playing by brail! Confusion, fear, anguish, enlightenment ensue ...
Thank you so much for this wonderful video .i am having a lot of fun with your method to improving my shifting during the quarantine time of coronavirus at home .😄👍🙏🏼❤️
Thank you very much for the videos, tips and materials that you make available. It has helped me a lot to improve and understand how to study the violin.
Thank you very much for your videos. I am now in a cloud of confusion on vibrato. I play both violin and viola, and not satisfied with my vibrato. Was happy to read some of your thoughts on it but very much look forward to your series of the left hand technique. Thank you again and best wishes.
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@@@DanielKurganov nice way of explaining. I read you conduct private classes. Do you still conduct the same? We are from India. It is for my daughter and she almost completed her grade 1 in Violin. Would appreciate if you are available.
Love the whole thing !! Immensely helpful and inspiring. Thank you. Breaking these exercises down with carefully thought out explanations that can be understood and enable we mere mortals to achieve goals. 🙏
Your demonstration in the video shows that you have achieved a really impressive mastery of this etude. What a genius idea, to use it this way! Your instructions how to practice it, are also most helpful. I have only one further question. Do you believe, that it is necessary to practice this etude in its whole length to benefit from it? I am thinking of myself and the injuries caused by using over a life time too large violas, but I should practice it nevertheless.....
Hartmut Lindemann thank you and that’s an excellent point. I agree that the etude should never be practiced to the point of exhaustion/pain. I think it’s possible to reach a certain ‘flow state’ where you’re in sort of in a trance from all of the shifting and you are no longer thinking. All of the shifting becomes light and ‘easy’. I think of it as analogous to blitz chess on a high level, where you are no longer calculating and yet can play quickly and accurately. It’s that state of flow which I find generates the most progress on the front of intuitive playing, for this etude and actually in general. On the other hand, I do play a lot of etudes ~only half way through (having played them before). Usually enough to get the point... finally, I don’t envy any violist trying to do this, but maybe we can become as good shifters as cellists!
@@DanielKurganov Thank you very much for these helpful tips. When I tried to play the first lines in a sort of 'endless repeated loop', I soon experienced this 'flowing state where all the shifting becomes light and easy' that you are mentioning. Our obstacle, the viola! I witnessed some very small women with tiny hands performing the most amazing virtuoso feats. Consequently, I feel that violists of normal medium body size, have no excuse not to conquer their fingerboard. Do you recall the funny, famous story, when Elman visited his NY violin shop and heard his colleague Primrose trying out instruments by going through some Paganini Caprices with his customary ease? Elman shrug his shoulders and commented 'it must be easier on viola'. I play the viola, because I started very late, at the age of 14, and I had the right size hands for viola. Violists who have the ambition to learn some of the Primrose transcriptions, such as his 24th Caprice, or Zimbalist's 'Sarasateana' will benefit from your exercise.
Hartmut Lindemann I hadn’t heard that story! So funny :) I started violin at age 16 so I think maybe I look for these sorts of endurance exercises as a potential way towards fast progress. You’re totally right about the problem of the instrument, physique, and various other factors we have to watch out.
Thank you for providing all the techniques and exercises. I'm an advanced intermediate player who was in a very competitive High School orchestra program but didn't get good private instruction until later in high school. I was also too distracted by advancing my guitar playing and being a busy teenager. Now that I'm teaching young ones I'm letting myself go after the skills and level of playing that I was always envious of. You're doing "god's" work.
Great video. Your physique is very similar to my own. Slightly longer, slender upper body and neck,. Also the jaw shape/profile. A also have been using a berber adjustable but used a Dremel tool to shape it further to match my jaw line. However, I have never been fully happy because my head also falls forward as your head seems to as well. cont...
I know that this is a 4 year old upload but hope that you check your new 'comments'. I really enjoy your videos, they really do help, many others are either too easy or too difficult but you seem to hit my 'sweet spot' and I get so much from them. Thank you. If you're comfortable sharing this would you tell me what violin you're currently using and what strings you use. I imagine your violin is from your luthier friend/acquantance/colleague Andrew Ryan as you said that you're "lucky enough to play on one of his violins for many years now" a couple of years ago but the strings, I haven't found reference to. Best regards, Mark - Australia.
I really hope all this things help me improve because I feel like I’m just bad at violin and sometimes thinking about how bad I am makes me think about stop playing
Don’t quit if you love it! Take care of the quality of your sound (pressure + sounding point + speed of bow), never sacrifice the HORIZONTALITY of the stroke (have to oscillate the string) and SLOW DOWN to listen for intonation closely. Those are typically the things that give people most trouble :) Shifting exercises are good, but before doing the one in the video, I recommend spending quality time with Sevcik Op.8 and etudes like Kreutzer 11. Best of luck!
@Daniel Kurganov nice way of explaining. I read you conduct private classes. Do you still conduct the same?We are from India. It is for my daughter and she almost completed her Grade 1 in Violin. Would appreciate if you are available.
This video, and your video on the Ysaye exercises were the most useful ones I've found that gave direct and interpretable feedback on several aspects of technique. But could you perhaps do a video on debugging some of the basics? It's really hard without a teacher due to the virus situation. Are there good exercises to help determine correct alignment of e.g. the left hand on the neck, the right elbow and shoulder while bowing (e.g. if the bow keeps see-sawing non-perpendicular to the strings), where the left elbow should be (directly under the violin? way off to the left?), and noticing/fixing excessive tension in the various joints. I get the feeling a lot of these could be addressed by basic drills but I haven't had great luck on TH-cam so far.
Have you tried Julia Bushkova's channel "ViolinClass"? She tackles quite a lot of basic questions, as well as advanced ones. She gives well founded and sound advice.
I have always justified this position because I 'relax' it and let it fall forward into he Berber chin rest. I saw another video of yours where I think you are using Wave chin rest. I have ordered some to try out. Do you have any general comment regarding and particularly any improvement that you have experienced?Thank you.
j'aurais aimé voir le corps entier, la façon d'accompagner chaque note depuis le sol où sont posés les pieds, le rôle de la respiration, mais j'aime beaucoup!
Great videos. However, why do you practice intonation / shifting with vibrato? My view has always been that vibrato gives you an opportunity to cheat on accuracy.
when practicing, it’s a good idea to vibrate everything you can, including scale/exercises whenever possible. The only time I would not vibrate is if there is specifically some fundamental issue with intonation where I need to use a fine scalpel. Other than for beginners, I don’t think it’s necessary as the primary way of practicing. If your vibrato is hiding your intonation, you’re not really doing vibrato correctly. Vibrato must have a very clear and tight pitch center. This doesn’t mean that we are preparing to vibrate everything possible in a performance of music. I don’t believe in that school. The 2 main reasons for vibrating everything in the practice room as a standard practice are: 1. You will never play a melody without any vibrato at all, so why would you play a scale without vibrato? Vibrato changes the feel of the hand, so if you don’t practice it everywhere, everything will feel foreign when you suddenly add it for pieces of music. 2. Vibrato is actually a tool to test and work on correct hand frame and riding excess tension. I will be making a video about all of this in the future.
Hi, I agree with Daniel. As a sort of rule of thumb, practice should emulate what you do in performance. On the whole that means using vibrato and the best possible sound on any and all exercises. There can be problems with intonation if the vibrato is outside its control framework but that`s another whole can of worms. One way to push this exercise to an even higher level is to practice it in fifths with the finger perfectly positioned across two strings. Not only will your intonation improve rapidly , but your vibrato cannot start farting all over the place. Cheers, Buri
Daniel Kurganov, Violinist I Hi Daniel, the teachers I had at RCM were all very pro vibrato. Really disliked the baroque stuff that was being smuggled into its hallowed portals. The fifths stuff I first heard Ricci talk about but its been around for a while I think. Thanks for the tip about Rodney. Those videos are really interesting. He was teaching at RCM when I was a student. Awesome musician. Regards, Buri
I would like to add to my previous comment a question. I have a shaky bow when I am near the frog, and have struggled with this for the entire time since I started about 10 months ago. I cannot determine where the tension is coming from, and have viewed numerous videos which don't really address it. Any help in this matter would be invaluable to me. Thankyou.
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy. Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
@@chelseac6599 payhip.com/violin if you go to that link and then click on "Dont/Gingold exercise for advanced shifting" you can download it for free. Thousands have already done it, it's definitely working. However, if you still have trouble, just search for Dont Op.35 etude book online (the PDF is widely available for free) and you'll see this etude (Etude No.2). Then you just apply 1-2-3-4 fingering everywhere as I describe in the video.
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy. Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy. Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
![The most important tip for Violin Vibrato [Scroll Support Method]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OSi3H676qAU/mqdefault.jpg)
![2-finger exercise for shifting, vibrato, sound production & high positions [violin technique]](/img/n.gif)
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I will try to live up to that! Thanks for watching
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I have been following this guy for about three months now. I work on two of his exercises every day, and I can say that his exercises are really good.
I love these Master class videos. He seems to be a really good violin instructor.
I like the idea of the guiding finger for shifting and I will do this during my practice tomorrow. Excellent video Thank you 😀
I am an adult beginner, and have only been playing for under a year. Your instruction helps in ways that I cannot describe other than to say it is so concise and easy to comprehend. thanks for all of this great information. It inspires me to work hard.
Thank you for this awesome shifting exercise and for your useful practice insights!
Excellent exercise! Helped me to make my left arm more loose and flexible. It also helped me to straighten my pinky - And, of course, it is helping my shifting. Thank you!!
Wonderful!
Thank you for your excellent instruction and for providing these materials. Helpful and inspiring! Thank you for so generously sharing your gifts, skills, knowledge.
I'm so glad it's helpful!
I liked it so much!!!!
I kinda could feel your passion for this instrument through the screen...
you explain it actually really well
thank you 😊
These are just fabulous insights! in a very attainable presentation. Teaching at genius level. Thank you.
Beautiful and smart way of exciting that etude thank you again
Thank you for sharing your videos, I totally agreed with your left arm shifting between positions, And basically, I teach my students to practice slowly with a very light glissando at the beginning of shifting positions! So later they can do the same without glissando just by shifting fingers and arm exactly at the same time.
Wonderful!
You are a talented teacher.
Hi Daniel,
wonderful idea of Gingold`s. thanks for sharing it. I hate to see great ideas getting lost with the passage of time. As I was watching it I thought it might be interesting to graft the ‘ghost note’ practice method that Simon Fischer advocates in his works so that the mind is very carefully programmed as to how the shift works. The example that immediately springs to mind is the section in his book ‘Warming up.’
Regards,
Buri
Stephen Brivati indeed! If we’re talking Fischer and considering what the most masochistic thing might be, how about doing this shifting exercise but always bowing on a neighboring open string? Truly playing by brail! Confusion, fear, anguish, enlightenment ensue ...
You are a gifted teacher...great video!
Excellent!! Thank you!!
You sound great!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video .i am having a lot of fun with your method to improving my shifting during the quarantine time of coronavirus at home .😄👍🙏🏼❤️
Thank you so much for the free sheet music! You really are the best
You're very welcome!
Thank you for your video. very useful and insightful
Thank you very much for the videos, tips and materials that you make available. It has helped me a lot to improve and understand how to study the violin.
Great to hear!
Some really helpful insights for improving fiddle techniques for dancing. Any note with any finger is a great idea. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your videos. I am now in a cloud of confusion on vibrato. I play both violin and viola, and not satisfied with my vibrato. Was happy to read some of your thoughts on it but very much look forward to your series of the left hand technique. Thank you again and best wishes.
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Really cool elevator comparison!
No elevators during COVID...we have to shift like Ricci now
@@@DanielKurganov nice way of explaining. I read you conduct private classes. Do you still conduct the same? We are from India. It is for my daughter and she almost completed her grade 1 in Violin. Would appreciate if you are available.
I'll definitely try that.
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Love the whole thing !! Immensely helpful and inspiring. Thank you. Breaking these exercises down with carefully thought out explanations that can be understood and enable we mere mortals to achieve goals. 🙏
Very good for me
Hi iam also a professional violinist I saw your video this really useful for violin players for me also...can teach this scale slowly for me
Your demonstration in the video shows that you have achieved a really impressive mastery of this etude. What a genius idea, to use it this way! Your instructions how to practice it, are also most helpful.
I have only one further question. Do you believe, that it is necessary to practice this etude in its whole length to benefit from it?
I am thinking of myself and the injuries caused by using over a life time too large violas, but I should practice it nevertheless.....
Hartmut Lindemann thank you and that’s an excellent point. I agree that the etude should never be practiced to the point of exhaustion/pain. I think it’s possible to reach a certain ‘flow state’ where you’re in sort of in a trance from all of the shifting and you are no longer thinking. All of the shifting becomes light and ‘easy’. I think of it as analogous to blitz chess on a high level, where you are no longer calculating and yet can play quickly and accurately. It’s that state of flow which I find generates the most progress on the front of intuitive playing, for this etude and actually in general. On the other hand, I do play a lot of etudes ~only half way through (having played them before). Usually enough to get the point... finally, I don’t envy any violist trying to do this, but maybe we can become as good shifters as cellists!
@@DanielKurganov Thank you very much for these helpful tips. When I tried to play the first lines in a sort of 'endless repeated loop', I soon experienced this 'flowing state where all the shifting becomes light and easy' that you are mentioning. Our obstacle, the viola!
I witnessed some very small women with tiny hands performing the most amazing virtuoso feats. Consequently, I feel that violists of normal medium body size, have no excuse not to conquer their fingerboard. Do you recall the funny, famous story, when Elman visited his NY violin shop and heard his colleague Primrose trying out instruments by going through some Paganini Caprices with his customary ease?
Elman shrug his shoulders and commented 'it must be easier on viola'. I play the viola, because I started very late, at the age of 14, and I had the right size hands for viola. Violists who have the ambition to learn some of the Primrose transcriptions, such as his 24th Caprice, or Zimbalist's 'Sarasateana' will benefit from your exercise.
Hartmut Lindemann I hadn’t heard that story! So funny :) I started violin at age 16 so I think maybe I look for these sorts of endurance exercises as a potential way towards fast progress. You’re totally right about the problem of the instrument, physique, and various other factors we have to watch out.
Thank you for providing all the techniques and exercises. I'm an advanced intermediate player who was in a very competitive High School orchestra program but didn't get good private instruction until later in high school. I was also too distracted by advancing my guitar playing and being a busy teenager. Now that I'm teaching young ones I'm letting myself go after the skills and level of playing that I was always envious of. You're doing "god's" work.
@@petethelegend543 I’m using the phrase even though I am an atheist, insert whichever god you prefer to worship.
Very helpful
Excellent !!
Many thanks!
Great video. Your physique is very similar to my own. Slightly longer, slender upper body and neck,. Also the jaw shape/profile. A also have been using a berber adjustable but used a Dremel tool to shape it further to match my jaw line. However, I have never been fully happy because my head also falls forward as your head seems to as well. cont...
Amazing... Thank you So, Much
😍😎👏👏👏
thanks for sharing, sir!😇
I know that this is a 4 year old upload but hope that you check your new 'comments'. I really enjoy your videos, they really do help, many others are either too easy or too difficult but you seem to hit my 'sweet spot' and I get so much from them. Thank you. If you're comfortable sharing this would you tell me what violin you're currently using and what strings you use. I imagine your violin is from your luthier friend/acquantance/colleague Andrew Ryan as you said that you're "lucky enough to play on one of his violins for many years now" a couple of years ago but the strings, I haven't found reference to. Best regards, Mark - Australia.
Thanks, and I'm glad you like the videos! I play on a violin by Andrew Ryan, and Thomastik Rondo strings.
@@DanielKurganov Thank you, Daniel.
I really hope all this things help me improve because I feel like I’m just bad at violin and sometimes thinking about how bad I am makes me think about stop playing
Don’t quit if you love it! Take care of the quality of your sound (pressure + sounding point + speed of bow), never sacrifice the HORIZONTALITY of the stroke (have to oscillate the string) and SLOW DOWN to listen for intonation closely. Those are typically the things that give people most trouble :)
Shifting exercises are good, but before doing the one in the video, I recommend spending quality time with Sevcik Op.8 and etudes like Kreutzer 11. Best of luck!
@@DanielKurganov I’ll do my best, I’m just 16 and I know I have a lot to learn. Like I always say practice makes improvement.
Please tell me what are the notes you are playing in those shift pattern
@Daniel Kurganov nice way of explaining. I read you conduct private classes. Do you still conduct the same?We are from India. It is for my daughter and she almost completed her Grade 1 in Violin. Would appreciate if you are available.
This video, and your video on the Ysaye exercises were the most useful ones I've found that gave direct and interpretable feedback on several aspects of technique. But could you perhaps do a video on debugging some of the basics? It's really hard without a teacher due to the virus situation. Are there good exercises to help determine correct alignment of e.g. the left hand on the neck, the right elbow and shoulder while bowing (e.g. if the bow keeps see-sawing non-perpendicular to the strings), where the left elbow should be (directly under the violin? way off to the left?), and noticing/fixing excessive tension in the various joints. I get the feeling a lot of these could be addressed by basic drills but I haven't had great luck on TH-cam so far.
Have you tried Julia Bushkova's channel "ViolinClass"? She tackles quite a lot of basic questions, as well as advanced ones. She gives well founded and sound advice.
@@lagrenounouille yes, I've been watching her videos for a few months and she is a fantastic teacher!
Steve Jobs knows it well👌🏻
Awesome! Thanks a lot!
I have always justified this position because I 'relax' it and let it fall forward into he Berber chin rest. I saw another video of yours where I think you are using Wave chin rest. I have ordered some to try out. Do you have any general comment regarding and particularly any improvement that you have experienced?Thank you.
Where do you live? I would like to take master class with you.
I live in Boston. I offer private lessons here, but also worldwide via video chat.
Thank you!
7:07 what is the piece in your outro? Please I MUST KNOW !
Mahler’s 5th symphony, 2nd movement Adagietto!
j'aurais aimé voir le corps entier, la façon d'accompagner chaque note depuis le sol où sont posés les pieds, le rôle de la respiration, mais j'aime beaucoup!
Where is the sheet music to these exercises?
I am really enjoying the recordings.
great exercise I would start without vibrato
4:43
Great videos. However, why do you practice intonation / shifting with vibrato? My view has always been that vibrato gives you an opportunity to cheat on accuracy.
when practicing, it’s a good idea to vibrate everything you can, including scale/exercises whenever possible. The only time I would not vibrate is if there is specifically some fundamental issue with intonation where I need to use a fine scalpel. Other than for beginners, I don’t think it’s necessary as the primary way of practicing. If your vibrato is hiding your intonation, you’re not really doing vibrato correctly. Vibrato must have a very clear and tight pitch center. This doesn’t mean that we are preparing to vibrate everything possible in a performance of music. I don’t believe in that school. The 2 main reasons for vibrating everything in the practice room as a standard practice are:
1. You will never play a melody without any vibrato at all, so why would you play a scale without vibrato? Vibrato changes the feel of the hand, so if you don’t practice it everywhere, everything will feel foreign when you suddenly add it for pieces of music.
2. Vibrato is actually a tool to test and work on correct hand frame and riding excess tension.
I will be making a video about all of this in the future.
Hi, I agree with Daniel. As a sort of rule of thumb, practice should emulate what you do in performance. On the whole that means using vibrato and the best possible sound on any and all exercises. There can be problems with intonation if the vibrato is outside its control framework but that`s another whole can of worms. One way to push this exercise to an even higher level is to practice it in fifths with the finger perfectly positioned across two strings. Not only will your intonation improve rapidly , but your vibrato cannot start farting all over the place. Cheers, Buri
Don’t tell Rodney Friend about that idea... :)
Daniel Kurganov, Violinist I
Hi Daniel, the teachers I had at RCM were all very pro vibrato. Really disliked the baroque stuff that was being smuggled into its hallowed portals. The fifths stuff I first heard Ricci talk about but its been around for a while I think. Thanks for the tip about Rodney. Those videos are really interesting. He was teaching at RCM when I was a student. Awesome musician.
Regards,
Buri
I would like to add to my previous comment a question. I have a shaky bow when I am near the frog, and have struggled with this for the entire time since I started about 10 months ago. I cannot determine where the tension is coming from, and have viewed numerous videos which don't really address it. Any help in this matter would be invaluable to me. Thankyou.
I'll try to address this in my next Q&A video. Stay tuned!
I can't get the sheet music....
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy.
Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
🙏🏾❤️
damn shifting hurts
!!!!
What notes are you playing?? This is confusing even for intermediate. 1234 isn’t very clear what notes you’re actually playing
There is a link to the sheet music in the description. Also, Dont's etudes are widely available for free online.
@@DanielKurganov kind sir the link isn’t working for me I’ve tried to open it. You said A and C on the g string what are the other two notes?
@@chelseac6599 payhip.com/violin if you go to that link and then click on "Dont/Gingold exercise for advanced shifting" you can download it for free. Thousands have already done it, it's definitely working. However, if you still have trouble, just search for Dont Op.35 etude book online (the PDF is widely available for free) and you'll see this etude (Etude No.2). Then you just apply 1-2-3-4 fingering everywhere as I describe in the video.
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy.
Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
Interesting variant: Practice Dont #2 with Kurganov/Gingold fingerings but use the Kurganov “interpolate an open string between every note/drop finger from the air” technique. Go back and forth between notes until there is accuracy.
Heifetz apparently played this etude as an encore on some of his recitals!
That's next-level.
@@DanielKurganov indeed. Always seeking that "next level"!