Improve Your Violin Intonation with These Left-Hand Exercises

[@quiwielque]

This exercise makes my fingertips and relationship with my ears way more conscious. Love it! Thank you.

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Wonderful!

[@douglasthomson1989]

Super good advice about intonation Christian. Thank you.

[@ViolinTeacherMaite]

You are a great communicator! Thanks!

[@augustinechinnappanmuthria7042]

Super super super lovely playing fantastic Augustine violinist from Malaysia

[@AlamoCityCello]

Excellent lesson on intonation! You’re generous to share with us. Thank you Christian!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

I'm glad it helped you.

[@jamesbarros950]

Thank you so much for all this. I missed your camp this year due to family financial matters but I absolutely will be there next year. Thank you for sharing this wonderful work and for all your ear training and improv videos

[@rojasestremera1830]

Puqui here. Nice to see you at camp. Congratulations to your son on a wonderful performance. (My 13 year old was inspired to learn more fiddling. She was wanting to learn the Swallowtail fiddle tune.) Looking forward to seeing you again soon!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Hi Puqui! So great to meet you. Ok what is the name of the tune your daughter wants to learn and do you know the key she wants it in? And what’s her name?

[@rojasestremera1830]

@@ChristianHowesViolinhi there! Her name is Evelyn. She into Irish fiddling tunes. She doesn’t know Irish Washerwoman. I don’t know what key, I would guess d-major would work. Thank you!

[@cathcoombs1380]

I did vibrato for the first time doing this exercise. Thank you!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Great job!

[@EudoraPrice]

😍😍😍😍Thank You!

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

You're welcome 😊

[@mrjefe8927]

This is fantastic, both for me (over twenty years playing) and my daughter (less than a year). One of my challenges when playing live is relaxing and not stressing about it (which makes any problems snowball).

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Got it thank you. Look for my “relaxing play along” videos they will help you relax when you play.

[@someguy007]

Wow. very very helpful exercise. Question then is why do (even pro)violinist go out of tune. And while playing u dont realize until u listen back to a recording, just how some notes were out of tune.

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

The more you listen back to recordings, the more you will hear your intonation as it is when playing.

[@markharris7378]

Thanks for the video! I'm not too sure whether I'm hearing the ring or not though to be honest. I get it when I'm playing a G, D, A or E, as it causes the other open string to ring, but I'm not sure what I should hear ringing on the other notes.

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

@@markharris7378 that's normal. It takes time to hear other intervals.

[@markharris7378]

@@ChristianHowesViolin Thanks for the reply. I'll keep listening out for it then I guess!

[@jamesrucker5927]

I have a question, when you're moving your finger - are you moving, or rolling it?

[@ChristianHowesViolin]

Yes!:)

[@jamesrucker5927]

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