Thanks for the positive feedback! It looks you liked the mailbag, so I’m going to keep the answers coming as long as you keep asking! Fingers Hurt? Angelsoos writes: Hello Thom, I’ve watched many of your videos, and they have been very helpful. I just got my Violin 5 days ago, which really thrilled me [...]

Review Questions 1. What does Arco mean? 2. What is the Stop and Set technique? 3. What should your posture look like? Hello and welcome to Stringsavvy.com Violin Lesson #7! In lesson #6 we learned about holding a proper posture, starting form for bowing, and making clean string changes. Today we will begin bowing exercises [...]

Review Questions Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D and A strings? Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers around? Pay attention to where you fingers go! Are you practicing your bow hold/exercises? Are you comfortable [...]

Before you begin! Review Questions 1. Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D and A strings? 2. Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers around? Pay attention to where you fingers go! 3. Are you practicing [...]

Before you begin! Review Questions 1. What is a scale? 2. What does pizz. mean? 3. Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D string? 4. Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers around? Pay attention to [...]