Violin Techniques - The Contact Points

[@aminmehdizadeh9661]

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[@wendyshell8679]

This is a wonderful color on Julia!💙

[@veronikakuznetsova7032]

Thank you so much for this detailed explanation. What stood out to me most was: contact point is as important as intonation. We should think about which contact point we are using for the color we are trying to play.

[@maltamaryfree]

Like advanced intonation. Nice

[@mfkaamer]

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[@ТуменМонгуш-ы8у]

Это то, что я искал долгое время. Спасибо большое за ваш урок!

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Я очень рада, что смогла Вам помочь!

[@kamlopicker]

You are the best Teacher on the internet. Thank you

[@MelodiaSpring]

Thank you for this excellent lesson. Looking forward to your lesson on how to keep the bow straight.

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Due to a popular demand it will be coming soon ~

[@MelodiaSpring]

@@ViolinClassUSA That's wonderful! 😊

[@antonioromera8880]

Thank you very much. Another demanding violin basic topic to deal with. It’s a pleasure to have your expert advice and reflections.

[@TangoMasterclass]

Thank you so much for your great lessons, Professor Bushkova!

[@ViolinClassUSA]

You are welcome, Cosima

[@starise27]

Excellent! I love your teaching! Thank you.

[@teddywang69]

1:12 sul ponticello /1 bridge / 2 / 3 middle / 4 / 5 fingerboard / sul tasto 2:38 (2:53) Carl Flesh (3:24) note of bow stroke 3:47 4:06 e.g. Cantabile 5:20 diminuendo to pianissimo 5:41

[@NantachaiChootien]

I want to thank you for your teaching A valuable lesson.

[@haveanicetime]

Большое спасибо!

[@chenxu3313]

Very Useful! Thanks for the sharing!

[@MikeS7]

I was wondering why I wasn't making any sound while playing so near the bridge. Thank you this cleared things up for me

[@MarcosPabloDalmacio]

Excellent advice, so well explained!

[@jancolletti4859]

Very useful as ever, Thankyou for all of your videos ☺️

[@jacoblee382]

a wonderful demonstration

[@ravisub4265]

Thank you for your kind efforts..very useful

[@markmee4487]

I follow your master class thow I´m a begginer. I´m a street violinist. I mean I play in tghe streets to earnb some pesos. I earn a promedio de 100 pesos an hour. It is about 5 american dollars. I play Pachelbel canon in D, Eine kleine nach music, a Bach´s Bourree in G, and some other classical pieces, I began to learn the violin at the age of fifty with a profesional woman violinist. She is an american who did study in the USA. she did teach me some basic things. But she teach us more repertory than tecnique in her little strings orchestra. I like your videos cause I learn a lot from you.I thank to you. I´m a mexican I was born and live in Cuernava Morelos Mexico. Mark is my alias for Marco my real name. Nowdays I´m 59 years old. Miguel, my son, began at five with the violin but now he has lost the few love for violin he had, and fall in love with his celular phone and batlle games in internet. I thught to enrroll him in the local professional violin academy but I´m must motivated than him to join it. My son is almost 13 years old ¿ how coul I motivate him?

[@ViolinClassUSA]

I sympathize with you. The video games and the smartphones ruin people... The one thing you may tell him that if we he plays the violin he would become smarter in the games as the violin teaches problem-solving, enlarges memory, and will make him more versatile and hard to beat. Plus, by playing the violin, he would meet many more beautiful girls than the geeks who only sit in front of the computers :)))

[@muriloandreolla]

Thanks from Brazil!

[@kellyldavis1960]

Thank you for this video! I’m having trouble keeping my bow parallel. I’ve been playing 2 months now.

[@ViolinClassUSA]

It usually takes years to learn that skill so - patience and perseverance!

[@rajibdas849]

Thank you! as I learnt a very good leassion today.

[@mikejohnson6424]

I am learning how to play violin and I really appreciate you for your teaching. It is very helpful. I hope one day I learn to play good and some day meet you personally and look at your eyes and thank you for sharing your talents. Kind regards Mike Johnson

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Best of luck!

[@itiyagerbi8098]

Thank you for the wonderful video! Could you please share some tips for having a great sound?

[@션-m6x]

A review of how to keep bow parallel would be much appreciated! My arms are kind of short, and even with elbow extension at the tip of the bow, it's difficult for me to play in that area of the bow without feeling some strain in my arm muscles. Also, do you have any suggestions for switching contact points seamlessly? Pinchas Zukerman said once that he intentionally initiates bows in a certain direction (for example, bowing out on a down bow to slide closer to fingerboard) but it's hard for me to execute that smoothly. Thank you always for your videos!

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Thanks - I will add this point to my next video about the bow. Mr. Zukerman is correct about the bow direction helping to change contact points. All finer points of violin technique are hard to achieve at first so patience and perseverance are our best friends :)

[@dnul1915]

Thank you Professor.

[@ApexProsGaming]

omg thank you so much i can learn how to play the violin now!

[@jujuekviolin]

Very useful video lesson 😍 I don't know the contact point before. Thanks alot.

[@ViolinClassUSA]

You're welcome 😊

[@knoy0799]

Thanks for sharing

[@fm00092]

How do you switch contact points smoothly? Simon Fischer also mentions this in his book but I don’t understand how to move up and down the points. Great video on this subject. Thank you again!:)

[@ViolinClassUSA]

There are a couple of ways... I am going to release a video about my exercises in the 5 Contact Points. Later, I will address your question in the next video(s) in the series

[@michaelreaper666]

Thanks some great info there ..:)

[@declairelegenou]

Thank you Prof. Bushkova for this useful video. When my son plays, many times his teacher mentioned that he has "slip tones" -- does this have something to do with the contact points as well? And do you have any suggestion on how to correct this? I also look forward about playing parallel to the bridge. Thank you in advance!

[@ViolinClassUSA]

I do not understand what "slip tones" are... Every teacher's vocabulary is very different. Does s/he mean, not enough contact of the bow with the string that produces a sort of "whistly" sound? Sorry I cannot help if I do not get the question...

[@nadia_eska]

Any suggestions for good studies to practise this with?

[@ViolinClassUSA]

I always used scales for pretty much anything:) Maybe a bit boring for some but worked for me

[@sheldonchou8830]

thank you

[@deperonnet]

Thank you very useful for me 3 contacts bow, color and dynamic, always parallel to the bridge by redirigîng the bow with forearm « as if you wish pushing a door to open it » Do you perform summer masterclass for amateurs adults?

[@deperonnet]

And also give weight on contact 3 and less 1. On contact 5 near fingerboard no weight at all.

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Unfortunately, I am busy teaching advanced students and professionals during summers... (and at the university as well). Sorry...

[@anandmishra5554]

Thank

[@BrunoMrx]

Please Julia, can you put the name o the the “book of Carl Flesh” that you mentioned? Thanks for the video!

[@ViolinClassUSA]

It was the Art of Violin Playing.

[@BrunoMrx]

I need another video about “how we use the bow parallel to the bridgeL

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Will do :)

[@seanleechild]

Why not simplify the 5 contact points down to 3? between fingerboard and bridge as 1, slightly towards fingerboard as 2 and 3 is slightly towards bridge? Less dynamic and colourful but easier to manage?

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Well, at first, we are just happy to be able to draw a bow on ONE contact point - No. 3! As we play better, 3 contact points could be used for intermediates. 5 contact points are for much more advanced players. And then we use 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and so forth contact points as well :) Precision is the key.

[@sm9846]

Hi professor , where are the contact points for artificial harmonics ? are contact points the same for four strings or not ?which point is better for each string ? thank you from Iran

[@ViolinClassUSA]

For all artificial harmonics, use stronger Contact Points. CPs always change depending on: 1) thickness of the string 2) length of the string 3) dynamics

[@guillermomaciel3689]

Why do you number in that order? 1 ponticello 5 sultasto

[@ViolinClassUSA]

It is a good question, Guillermo, thanks! 1 - Right BEFORE sul ponticello and 5 right BEFORE sul tasto. When I invented the system - back in my Interlochen-teaching-days -I first numbered the points the other way around (5 was nearest the bridge, 1 - nearest the fingerboard; 3 stayed in the middle, of course). Back then, I was coming from the Russian school system of grading (or marks): In the school, our 'A' was '5' and our 'F' was "1" (the weakest). Then a couple of years later, I read a good book by Carl Flesch, and he was talking about the contact points there, but in the reverse order. After the initial celebration ('great minds think alike' and such), I decided to reverse MY numbers as well so that I could then send my students to read Carl Flesch (if they ever felt like doubting me!)

[@guillermomaciel3689]

Thank you so much Ms. Bushkova. I really enjoy your videos. I would love to see your video on staying parallel to the bridge.

[@javiercisnerosgonzalez2218]

Subtítulos en español por favor saludos

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[@alfredcortot4104]

one dislike by a person who plays sul ponticello only. lol

[@kikoparisien1054]

Help me please m'y problème in interprétation ... I need exercice for son " piano ..forte ..pp " Thank you

[@ViolinClassUSA]

I did not understand your question... sorry cannot help ~

[@untonsured]

Who made your violin?

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Carl Becker

[@johnj.817]

Thanks teacher please you have whatsapp Facebook or insatgramme group in where we should ask question? Please give us the link

[@ViolinClassUSA]

I have an instagram account - you are welcome to follow me there: julia.bushkova

[@Алек.Марк]

Огромное спасибо за ваши уроки,но,как жаль,что вас нельзя послушать на русском.(

[@ViolinClassUSA]

Thank you for your valuable suggestion. I have been thinking about this, too. Now I will do my best to create one.

[@haveanicetime]

Большое спасибо!

[@bertrandcodevl3817]

Thank you