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Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn how to read an A Major scale arpeggio on sheet music in this free video clip series.
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've learned how to construct and play an a-tonic major arpeggio on the violin. But now, let's take a look at it on staff paper. Take a look. We have an A, all right, which is the first degree of our scale of arpeggio, so we put one under it. Next, is C sharp? Use this accidental right here, the one that looks like a tic-tack-toe box, okay, is a sharp. It means you raise the pitch. So if this was C natural I'd put a sharp, it's C sharp now, second scale degree, so two is under it. Third for E, fourth for A, and A has an open, a zero above it. That means it's played on an open string. Next we have C sharp, see our accidental. Five, six, also has an open string because it's an open E seven, three. Eight is one. We switch up in the fourth position, so we put the one over that for our fingering. Nine is three, third fingering, and ten is four."