Violin Practice: Bowing on Lower Strings

Video Transcript

"In your bowing your, your bowing on kind of more strings that are thicker, all the way up the strings are very, very thin. If you compare your G string with your E string you're going to see that your G string is, is very thick. It's much thicker than, than your E string therefore when you're playing on the G string or even the D string the sound that you're going to get is very rich. Just kind of speaks through the, that you know, how the string is, is so much thicker than, than the other string. So really when you're playing on the lower stings you want to make sure that you are digging in, drawing out the sound but in a pleasant way because also what can happen with the lower strings you can get very, very unpleasant if you press too hard. And you don't want that you want just a nice, strong but full sound so a, really making sure that you are a, not only digging into the string but also remembering to draw out the sound nicely but not in a way that's going to be unpleasant."