"Pinging" exercise for Left Hand Articulation

Use this super simple exercise to make sure you are not working too hard on violin, to improve your speed, as well as your articulation! (new camera is a Marantz Professional AVS...I got it for its condenser mic)
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[@kenkenpuzzle667]

Sounds great on my end

[@janice234]

May be a issue on my end, but I had to turn the volume up to 100 to get you loud enough. Thanks for another great tip!

[@garyarrington9071]

As @janice234 said, volume is too low, color balance is on the cool side, and video is a little fuzzy compared to your older videos. Some extra soft lighting behind the camera would probably improve the color balance and the sharpness.

[@tophatbanjo]

Lora! Excellent visual and audio quality, BUT there's a tap-tap-tapping coming from somewhere. It's probably the mic picking up and responding to a vibration that may be a long way away in the house somewhere. The tapping is maybe about 210 bpm or so, faint, but once you hear it, it's hard to not hear it under what you're doing.

[@RedDesertViolin]

OMG, Wayne, I hear it. Nope. Not a house noise. It is some sort of artifact/electronic static pulse in the camera. Aye Carumba! Thanks for reporting this.

[@MinuetMcDuffy]

Thank you for this advice. I get pain in my left hyper-mobile thumb joint at mid point where it collapses in and then at the base by my palm. I have tried taping it to help but it is too restricted. I know the collapsed joint forces more squeezing so anything to help alter this hopefully can help. On a side note I am a 60 year old who learned basics up to Suzuki book 3, back in my forties but I gave it up because of such discouraging lack of progress with tone and vibrato. My teacher had no understanding about hyper-mobility. My pinky would lock and stick. You were the first person I found that gave me hope to defeat that wretched issue. Been back playing since October 2023, and I’ve already seen improvement except for the pain. I’m pretty intense in practice and been putting in at least three hours a day to try to catch myself back up, so I know I have to be smart about how I practice going forward.

[@fionamullen3771]

Yes I heard it too. If you have a separate mic maybe use a boom (?) if you don’t have one already. If I understand it right (a friend set mine up) it looks a bit like a large net, or that cradle game we used to play with string as kids, and supposedly removes vibrations from mics clamped to desks etc.