Yehudi Menuhin Violin Tutorial - 5. Left Hand Playing

[@someguyoketcetc]

I love how he doesn't talk down to children, treating them as thinking human beings, nothing dumbed down. I bet every one of them remembers this lesson still.

[@ZJStrudwick]

Sorry to comment 11 years late, but I've met the boy sitting down with black hair - his name was David Angel. Very sadly he passed away just a year after I played with him but very glad to have met him - he was playing in the London Mozart Players who were collaborating with our university orchestra. He remembered them filming this!

[@teddywang69]

1:58 pull in then release slowly or quickly ------------ 3:34 3:53 (1) 4:08 (2) Caterpillar 4:30 (3) Catapult decending 5:05. 5:28. 5:43 6:03 6:16 neck-shoulder shoulder-top 6:55 slight bounce backward - forward direction 7:11 cat meowing 7:33 every pairs in a circle 7:54 vibrato & shifting are born in a same motion 8:05 restricted to a narrow amplitude & accelerate in speed you get your vibrato 8:20 8:40 backward forward tripled motion.apply to broken third 9:00 faster to one one 9:15 applied to other interval 9:39 coordinates with horizontal waving motion 10:26 shift forearm movement cooperate finger fall 11:07 useful in scale with pairs of finger 11:29 applied to double stops use two pairs of fingers 11:57 12:18 12:30 1-1-3-1-2-3-4 -3-2-1-3-1-1 12:45 single movement one wave to two notes 12:54. & 13:09 12343434 3434344 13:00 Natural rhythmic vibrato motion of the hand as did every other action of the finer [ 11 22 33 44 hand shake(pull push movement) combined with finger drop ] 13:20 Fifth lateral action This lateral action is one which nornally only the violinist himself sees But I would like show show it you You will be doing it and you might as well see how it works you will notice that going down scales. The third and the second finger have to span two strings in order to roll off the one THIS rolling action if necessary whenever we play fifth correct them to proper pitch 13:42 rolling action ( fifth adjustment ) 13:55 higer position pull strings together 14:27 the first finger having no one to pull hand it for the string Itself rolls over in the median position like that 14:38 speaking of pressure on strings, we have chords that require even more as three or four fingers May hold the strings down at the same time This requires great elasticity and strength Ender you well better not try this until you have developed your hands efficiently

[@roboticsresources9680]

Thank you for taking the time to save others' time

[@teddywang69]

@@roboticsresources9680 you are welcome

[@delilah_5123]

No

[@road2acoustic99]

Great work bro, thanks a lot!

[@JustFiddler]

wow matur suksma ! sangat membantu 😇

[@gregfinejazz]

Miracle! Not enough the words to say thank to this genius of violin!!!

[@hamidrezataherzadeh6127]

I had the honour of performing with this great human being. A wonderful, and remarkably humble person I have ever met n my life.A dedicated artist with a pure quality of a human being. His passion for human rights and his great support for the Iranian resistance were immense.I don't want to talk about his musical values that are so obvious to everyone, just like the sunshine that doesn't need to be described.He shall always be remembered by our resistance as he generously supported us. Blessings

[@trumpetvids]

Wow, amazing what two lessons with Yehudi Menuhin can do.

[@ilikechopin8112]

Priceless lessons! Directly from one of the greatest of violin! He studied violin with great George Enescu (romanian greatest composer and violonist). How can these be for free on youtube! Content like this raises the youtube stake tremendously.

[@jeanlillyguo1773]

pretty amazing how the two boys can just get up and play perfectly after sitting down for so long and let their hands get cold...i would be in the back freaking out and practicing furiously until they drag me out...

[@treatb09]

thank you for these lessons. every person wishing to play violin should be given a way to view these at their own leisure.

[@vanezcha]

for those who thought that the kids were beginners let me tell you this: it's not even easy to get into a masterclass session with a virtuoso. there's a selection for qualification

[@lawrence18uk]

John and Elizabeth - where are they now? Hope they heard this clip here!

[@edissonrubiano]

Me imagino que tener a un maestro como el gran Menuhin, o un Oistrakh, debe ser una experiencia terrible y a la vez maravillosa, el solo ver como sus ojos vigialntes y sus oidos atentos vigilaban con minucia a sus dos alumnos, le causa a uno miedo y a se vez respeto y admiracion, Menuhin, uno de los mejores de toda la historia

[@jeffandrewmusic]

Damn...there I was thinking they were all beginners, and "Yehudi that's some pretty advanced shit for a room full of kids..." until they started playing.

[@ABAORecords]

This is great instruction. Wish it was higher quality and not missing a few sections but thanks for sharing.

[@simonsteam]

Incredible Man. Love this, have learnt huge amount here.

[@MrFireinmycrotch]

Super technical.Very informative.And here I thought I was making progress in my learning by remembering b and c# x.x lots more to go.

[@James523001]

Excellent lesson.

[@sneddley]

This is great to work with, many thanks. About the pitch, i doubt Menuhin would have mistuned by a half step, more likely a video discrepency. Another clue is that his voice sounds higher pitched than normal.

[@1948ccm]

tape recordes with more heads and friction. at play one head is less ,so less friction. I´ve recognized that on my Tape Deck. It is a half note difference like here to hear. So, I´ve got dissapointed often when I tried to play additional to a tape record, not having a speed slider on the tape for friction adjust between record and play. The turntables often have a pitch adjuster, ...

[@Phynam]

13:54 cool trick! I had troubles in higher position with 5th, but now it works. Ha!

[@eduardofracassi3113]

These exercises are really great!

[@lawrence18uk]

Looks and sounds like theremin technique!! When he's doing all the sliding shifts up and down at 9:30

[@Mezzy113]

Oh my god! Those kids tore it up at the end. I thought they were on my level the whole time...now I feel embarrassed.

[@Unidentifying]

I wonder what he thought of the scottish/irish fiddle style. Its so different but still completely awesome

[@priscwy794frag]

It amuses me how one of the best violinists of the 20th century got 42 dislike clicks on this video. That (currently) 42 is probably the dark side of human nature exposed. Even more, their IQ would not recognize gold even if they would step on it.

[@nicolasgon]

Amazing video !!! 💖

[@mailais3403]

2:00 If you can release slowly you can release quickly So i guess that that's true after all huh

[@LM632]

Wow, this is a very good tutorial :P

[@travismyers2264]

“And you better not try these until you have developed your hand efficiently” I wish more teachers would keep this in mind before assigning their students pieces that are too hard and then having to undo bad habits

[@guidog3068]

I once had to pass the ABRSM Piano Grade 5 exam for a university place, I had no prior piano experience. My teacher was so good; I didn’t get to move onto a harder piece, exercise or scale until I had sufficient technique obtained for the existing one. At first I thought we were making far to slow progress and we’d never get through it in time but he was right and I passed. Wish I’d always applied the same discipline to my violin playing and other studies.

[@boogiewoogie9770]

Are these playing at the correct speed and violin sounds pitched up in tuning?

[@cmw12]

Brilliant! Better suited to a university master class though. As a beginning player, I was like yep, yep, wait... OH MY GOD... nope, that's just magic.

[@auladeviolino]

Hello, I'm Brazilian and I do not speak English. This text was done in the google translator. I have a request to make. youtube has a caption that you can correct the English generated automatically, this legend ends up having some errors and when I put the caption to see this sequence of videos of Menuhim has many items that I do not understand. I do not know if you know how to do this correction it is done like this: 1- Enter the study of creation; 2- click on edit video: 3- click on subtitles / CC 4- click in automatic English; 5- Click edit. Wow, I know it gives a lot of work, but if you correct the automatic caption this way, these Menuhim classes will be easily translated into any language, not just Portuguese, but in all languages, and we who do not know English will have access to those menu concepts that are so important. thank you, Marcello.

[@ss032010310103]

@PabloThePuggle interesting..i never noticed til u pointed it out lol

[@LudwigvanBeethoven2]

OMG do they really need to learn anything else?!

[@daftpunksamurai]

@Lemon77UG When did this violin tutorial series first air? It is fantastic!

[@dietmarterdenge5864]

Greart Artist / in this time a great video and i admire him...buti'm glad to have a modern teacher . But 💯 Percent Respekt vor Yehudi Menuhin, - Just was this time and it was good and stays forever.

[@ChristopherBolducViolin]

His violin was tuned...differently.

[@PabloThePuggle]

interesting that he tuned his violin to F, Bb, Eb and Ab! Otherwise good stuff. Thanks for sharing

[@angelosdeltoro9992]

Pablo Puggle i dont thin he did . It must be the video quality that disrupts the sound . Even his voice sounds differently pitched than a normal voice sounds

[@delilah_5123]

Is the "b" a flat in text?

[@losiento2]

I’ve never seen left hand fingertip calluses like that on any other violinist.

[@georgiana6598]

He's showing how to play after years of honing, and really, as a professional violinist myself, as well as 30 years violin and bow maker and restorer, he should be exploring how a bad violin sounds which has not got the very best strings, their type guage, bridge height correctly acheived and a well haired bow with everything considered, I feel his pupils are assumed to be, from the viewers perspective total novices. These children are professional beginners. He couldn't work out how I vibrato. 1982. He's much kinder in person. He was having a go at me for fun, I told him I liked Stephan Grapelli better and lent him my bow as his camber on his looked more useful for shooting across with. Ahh. ❤

[@alexpeterson1061]

is his E string missing?

[@Curtismusicman]

What is the piece at the end?

[@dannyboy2267]

It's the Wieniawski caprice no. 4, but I'm sure you already know by now.

[@delilah_5123]

@@dannyboy2267 Thanks

[@ahmedmsameh]

I dont think John and Elizabeth had redbull at that time!

[@delilah_5123]

😂😂 nice one!

[@zizoukhayatei9117]

Sommaon is heare in 2019 december ????

[@zizoukhayatei9117]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😐

[@peterCheater]

Are you sure it wasn't that he tuned them to different Hertz ._.?

[@roccatp]

cannot agree you more

[@K8theKind]

No.

[@delilah_5123]

15:22 wow

[@V.D.22]

Poor kids! They looked boths scared and bored. This lesson is great but maybe too complicated for them

[@buddyguyeh]

watch the last minute, maybe?

[@Unidentifying]

+Vlad Butica Well, they were being filmed too. I read your previous comments too and they were all about how the kids wouldnt understand him, what kind of mentality is that? That adults are more clever or something? I think you heavily underestimate kids....

[@calebng7527]

Watch the last minute aha !

[@delilah_5123]

You didn't watch the whole thing.

[@markvobic7106]

6:30

[@דניאלהנאסב-ל2פ]

נ נח-🌹 נחמ נחמן מאומן-🔥

[@jeffandrewmusic]

One of them was a girl.

[@erinl4948]

10:59

[@erinl4948]

11:45

[@erinl4948]

12:30

[@Unidentifying]

lots of subtleties in this one

[@hannahconley3918]

Happened to click on this while searching for alternate ways to teach beginner, left hand basics to my students... Yeah, not happening.. xD

[@noospaseisde]

haahhahaahh

[@patricklynch1090]

The kids always look so miserable.

[@eduardofracassi3113]

Yes they are a little afraid.

[@delilah_5123]

I think they're probably a little nervous, but when they played, it was incredible!

[@망히-z9z]

Listening to Menuhin it make violin much harder to learn than is. Sorry to say , too much talking than done. I doubt he learned violin the way he explained.

[@delilah_5123]

How dare you. If he doesn't talk, how are you supposed to learn it?

[@망히-z9z]

@@delilah_5123 I would prefer more simple way , that's my preference, that's all. Don't get offended. I do respect him as much as you do.

[@delilah_5123]

@@망히-z9z Okay

[@망히-z9z]

👍😄

[@delilah_5123]

@@망히-z9z 🙂👍

[@rockhard2654]

see......this is why youtube is the greatest thing ever you thought you sucked? your teachers sucked talent and ability is not rare worthwhile instruction THATS RARE

[@delilah_5123]

"You teachers suck" he's a teacher, and I have a professional teacher that's teaching me, you don't know anything.

[@ottokarvonschnallenburg2572]

I don't think he was the nice person he wanted to be seen as. He looks so angry...

[@Vancouverite39]

I love Menuhin's playing, but this is a dreadfully tedious lesson, no smiling, no humour, no playfulness, very little rapport, no one looks like they have much love or interest for music!

[@OttoKuus]

They would not be there if they didn't have much love for music

[@delilah_5123]

It's not like you would be like "🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂WhEn yOu uNbaenD tHe finger😂😂😂😃😃🤣🤣🤣 it'lL gO aWaY, gEt iT eXpEnSiVe rOsEmArY?🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪