Summary: Practicing violin bowing from the frog to the tip of the bow will allow full use of the bow when playing violin. Learn how to violin bow from frog to tip with tips from a classically trained violinist in this free music lesson video.
Elizabeth Willis is a classically-trained violinist and pianist. Studying piano since age 4, at age 5 she took up the violin at her insistence (according to her mom) and studied at the...read more
"So right now we're going to practice going from the tip to the frog. Because you want to feel what it feels like to move from the very bottom with your arm up in the frog position all the way up to the tip. And you're going to see that your bow arm is moving out. So you start in a small triangle and then your forearm is moving down to reach the tip. So for this exercise, you don't want to play all the way through, you just want to kind of practice playing a small part on the frog and playing a little bit at the tip to practice that movement and your arm moving from frog up to the tip like that. So this is what you're practicing, from frog to tip."
eHow Article: Violin Bowing Frog to Tip