Thank you very much

Having the experience to play one audition well, get rejected, and then you really think you will do better in a 2nd, 3rd, 4th audition? On the contrary, there is time I walked in to an audition environment completely butchering the same ol' excerpts that I played almost to perfection in a previous auditions. My head was definitely not clear minded that day. My previous orchestral director told me that auditions are just another gamble. Nothing else.

Thanks for the excellent and methodical help, and patience in explaining it all so well, Nathan 🙏

Excellent bowing ☺️ keeps the stars shining 🥹🫶

There are several other exercises in that book that are opaque and you need help to understand how best to do them. Perhaps you could describe how best to use more of these Fischer exercises?

Looks like you are using geared tuning pegs?

You are the best

Good video, thank you Nathan! I had issues with losing my hand shape (base knuckles drop down) and curve in my 4th finger when I stretch my index finger towards the scroll or move my middle finger, yes a flat minor can be problematic and also my go to scale for hand frame. I am not sure why but once I put the violin scroll against a wall, my hand frame and tension between thumb/index and violin neck becomes a lot better. I found it helpful to start my practice this way and try to replicate the feeling while playing normally.

Excellent

So, out of curiosity, how tall are you, Nathan? I was truly surprised, because I watched a ton of your videos and also studied with you at the Artist Works and I always saw you as a tall man (to my subjective eye 180+ cm)

What's that on your shoulder? You've stolen my idea! What someone should produce is a two ply mat with fabric underneath. Thank you for the video 👍

Kevin Burke warned his fiddle classes about 'working up' to speed... I resisted, but eventually admitted that the muscle memory doesn't translate well. Thanks for the great video.

You are very good violin teacher. Thank you from India

I don't know why I'm watching this when I don't play my violin too much anymore-- i"m instead trying to improve on piano. Practicing on either instrument is not that different-- either way you have to figure out how to hit the notes accurately.

I want to learn that! It's all in 1st pos, right?? Lol

So cute! We should have studied playing jazz violin! =D

What about in Vivaldi winter where it needs to be kind of slow? Can you control the speed?

This really put a smile on my face. Lovely!

This is lovely.

Thanks so much! So glad to have found you. I have an audition with this excerpt in 3 weeks…and can you believe I’ve never played it before?!? In all my years of symphony performance. 🤷🏻‍♀️ This was SO very helpful!

How am I just seeing this?

Tremendously helpful video. Thanks so much. Wondering if U anything on practicing Bow Division, say as in the 1st movement of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat even just the first page and perhaps some of the 3rd mvt., 1st page. Thanks again.

wow that intonation oh my god is it tuner perfect

damın

i find it to hard to do this exercise since i can’t put my first finger on G without not being able to do 2,3 and 4 on A string what can i do? 😢

So hard to play a violin

Brilliant!

Very helpful- I've seen this trick before, but never had it explained so well. After watching this, I had to go back to the scene of the crime.- as I would slowly turn my hand inward and start grasping the neck, I could actually see the daylight between the fingers start to disappear. After doing this exercise, my fingers remain spread and my hand feels more cupped (like I'm holding a tennis ball) as opposed to that side-by-side vice grip. Seeing the right way to do it gets you started, but then understanding how it should "feel" brings it home. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for the video! May I know what is the famous lefthand practice routine you mentioned that Heifetz practiced every day?

The risk-reward advice is so important. In reality, you'd do this with a solo performance too -- pick pieces you are comfortable with but which also display your greatness.

Bravo. All ways a pleasure to hear you. Please, could you tell me the name of this thing you're using as a shoulder rest? Where can we buy it? I thank you forward!!! Paulo Vieira

I like how you’re in a sauna.

Hello Mr Nathan! I hope you also tackle the other ornaments or embellishment to put in a music.. I dont know where to put, and will there be a overusing of ornaments too? Please use a pop music to demonstrate, thank you so much!!!

Thanks for this! Congratulations on the new post!

Nathan Could you tell me, please, the name off this thing do you use on your shoulder? Where could I buy it? I thank you a lot forward.

Amazing video. Very detailed 👌

now that i have started to control my fourth finger to be more curved it wants to go flat pitchwise 😭 any tips on getting the third and fourth finger to separate comfortable?

May i ask how do you keep the sound clean while you're playing harmonics with a huge vibrato at 01:23 ? If you make a video about it, I'd be really appreciate :) thanks a lot

Wonderful

Gorgeous playing! Thank you!

Very insightful about playing speed resisting sneaking the metronome up because of slowness practiced in. And congratulation on your latest appointment -- probably the best job there is to be had all in all, I'd think. Ale-8 toast!

Why don't the best players win auditions? Except in the case of the Boston Symphony concertmaster audition, when it did happen? 😂

Congrats!!!

I am very confused, how is this possible??

Thank you for this wonderful advice. However, when I try to download the manual, I get to a 404 error message after providing my first name and email address. Is this manual still available?

I was following you because of your magnificent approach to Milstein's legendary violín... Now I was informed of your new engagement as BSO concertmaster. Well deserved, congratulations, Mr. Cole!!! 😃

Congratulations on your new job with the BSO. You deserve it!

Master class for any musician who does performance 🙏🏿 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Wow congratulations!! Al the very best !

Came here after the news from the BSO, congrats!! You’ll be a fantastic concertmaster :)