Violin Practice: Bowing in Upper Positions

Video Transcript

"Another aspect of bowing is when you're moving up the violin, when you're getting higher and higher, it's even more important that your bow remains in the center. Because if your hands move up, and let's say your hand is going up into the seventh or eighth position, you really want to make sure that you're getting that sound out. Because, as your hand gets higher, the sound gets a little bit harder to bring out and so you really want to make sure that you're bowing in the center in between fingerboard and the bridge. You really don't want to be playing over here, when your finger is up here, otherwise you're not really going to hear it. So, you have to really, as you move up the fingerboard, as your fingers go into the upper positions, you really want to make sure that you're bowing in the center. (Demo) So that no matter how high you get, you're still hearing the sound. (Demo)"