Improve violin left hand (fast!) | Rodney Friend | Violin Masterclass

Need great left hand violin technique? This new method will teach you how to improve your violin playing, fast!
Prof. Rodney Friend has been acclaimed internationally as one of the most distinguished British violinists of his generation. Playing with the world's famous virtuosi, such as Heifetz, Oistrakh, Stern, Menuhin, Milstein, Szeryng, Ricci, Rabin to name a few, he observed the simplicity of their practice patterns and a tendency towards effortless posture and natural hand freedom. These observations became the cornerstones of a teaching method that he has developed and perfected over the past decades.
In March 2019, he gave a Masterclass with his then-student, Charlie Lovell Jones, to demonstrate his new violin teaching method. His book "The Violin in 5ths - Developing Intonation and Sound" provides the best technique for violin students to improve their left-hand facility.
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[@2ears1mouth786]

"... not only must you practise with rhythm, you must practise always with vibrato because there is no point to practise with a sound you can't use."

[@tullochgorum6323]

Folks - I'm a very humble self-taught adult starter - KZbin is my teacher. But I'm also analytical and recognise a good idea when I find it. And this is the single most helpful left-hand technique I've found over the years. The exercise where Charlie Jones plays a virtuoso passage in 5ths at full tempo is an eye-opener - you can clearly use this hand-frame for any challenge, not just for slow practice. And looking at videos of the masters with a fresh eye, you can see how they are using this principle as the Prof claims. Just watch their quiet elbows as they fly up and down the fingerboard. Even after the first day almost everything was feeling more easeful. Intonation across strings improves. Accuracy of shifting improves. Control of vibrato improves. Velocity improves. Basically the entire left hand becomes more relaxed and efficient. I'm really looking forward to the discoveries that will follow as I explore the exercises in the book in more depth. And that's for a player with *very* modest talents. For the brilliant young musicians the Prof is teaching, the benefits could be radical. I heartily urge you to approach this with a beginner's mind and give it a fair trial - it's a game-changer...

[@jdemeulenaer123]

Thank-you so much prof Friend. Your method is a very very good and important discovery for me. I'll practice it right away!!

[@allthumbs3792]

This is wonderful and reminiscent of the works of piano pedagog Dorothy Taubman who taught the proper use of the body/arm/hand/fingers should never go against the anatomy. She also talked about the right contact point on the finger, the fleshy pad not tip. I wish as a young violinist I’d had the ‘Friendly’ approach to playing.

[@jdemeulenaer123]

Genius idea! Great, you are a discoverer and help us so much! Thank you!!

[@jlingviolin]

Rodney has excellent ideas for getting the left hand position right. I would recommend this to all the teachers who are still ruining young students by telling them to push their wrist out and playing on the tips of their first and second fingers. Stop teaching "techniques " that don't work!

[@BarroqueSpirit]

Simplemente Genial Profesor! Muchas Gracias por esta estrategia Maravillosa!!!! Saludos desde Argentina.

[@fabriciovalvasori1121]

Excelente Maestro!!!!

[@flovanhille583]

Thank you so much, Maestro

[@jdemeulenaer123]

Here is a real and true Master!

[@HappyScalesforDuo]

Thank you for posting this Master Class

[@kiourhimo3238]

Thank you master

[@alanknights2779]

I find playing fifths strengthens the pinkie when practicing octaves. Octaves on A and E strings are possibly more unforgiving than fifths with intonation. Adam Beanstock.

[@JustFiddler]

terimakasih pak! salam dari pulau bali

[@roman14032]

somebody help me out here, im just starting when he says play in fifths, he means flaten your fingers out like youre going to hit two adjacent stings in the same spot, since they are tuned a fifth apart? and that flatening out makes you play with that flat pad of your finger rather than the tip whch puts everything in the right alinement for good vibrato? is that what we are talking about here?

[@BearesPublishing]

Dear Roman14032, You will see the correct position from the pictures in the book 'The Violin in 5th's' which is available as an ebook from our website. You can also view the lesson Rodney Friend gives to Hiroaki on our channel where he explains the finger/hand position. There are no flat fingers. Good luck and Best Wishes Beares Publishing (on Behalf of Rodney Friend)

[@roman14032]

@@BearesPublishing thank you so much, obviously im not grasping whats going on here

[@globalstringsalliance3529]

Thank you for sharing! We wanted to let you know that we have added this video to one of our playlists on our KZbin channel. We also would love to invite you to join our online community: facebook.com/groups/globalstringsalliance