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Summary: There are four strings on a violin including D, A, G and E. Play the violin in the key of A flat major with tips and advice from an experienced musician and violinist in this free video on music theory.
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 introduce all the open strings on the violin. There are four strings. We have G, which is the deepest sound,and the lowest string on the violin. We have D, which is one of the middle strings on the violin. We have A, another one of the middle strings on the violin, and E, our farthest string to the right, which is the highest string on the violin. Let's play them now. This is E, the highest string on the violin, and also the furthest to the right. You see no fingerings, just open. All you have to play is the string. Then we have A. That's an open A. Now we have D, another one of the middle strings, and last, but not least, we have G, our lowest string on the violin, also furthest to our left."