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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on how to play an F minor violin scale backwards.
Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for 17 years, and has been teaching violin for seven years. He taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which offers affordable violin...read more
"Now we're going to learn how to go down on the scale. Going up is melodic minor meaning two and three half steps, the sixth is raised, seven and eight half steps but now we're going to go down natural melodic minor, natural minor I mean. Cause in a melodic scale you go down in a natural minor and always when a natural minor half steps are between two and three, five and six let's try it. We landed on an F natural let's go down from here (playing violin) we now have the E flat, now we have the D flat, now we have the C, now you have the B flat, now we have the A flat, now we have the G, now we have the F natural."