QUOTE(yunnie @ Nov 29 2010, 09:42 PM)
anybody knows how much does it cost to repair a violin chinrest? mine has a crack on it
how can one repair the crack on the chinrest??? its possible to glue back other parts of the violin but definitely one is not encourage to do it on the chin rest because you can just buy a new one and replace it. It didn't cost too much and its not an important part of the violin to keep the original. So I will say just buy a new one to replace it.
QUOTE(kaiyikJr @ Nov 30 2010, 03:15 PM)
yah, quite old d hor? i try learn the vibrato myself, but sux big time..and wanted to learn the 2nd and 3rd position as well since currently only able to play in the 1st position..
vibrato derived from the word vibration...but you shouldnt think of it as a vibration. Erm...Lets think of it as a 'movement'. a 'movement' that move forward and backward with your wrist while pressing a note on the string.... just remember....move it forward and backward.....not side by side....up and down (while most learner tends to do this mistakes).
see here...while you are pressing on the string with your wrist grabbing on the violin neck...it restraint your wrist's mobility. But that is what makes vibrato....
so imagine yourself holding the violin and pressing a note (not too hard but the finger which press on the violin shouldn't move its position from one semitone to the other) and you try to move your wrist forward and backward.... at most your finger affected by this movement is just a little bit..... u do it slowly....u made a mosquito-nearby-your-ear sound......accelerate the 'movement' and familiarize with it....it becomes what we called as vibrato....
on a side note: you dont depend the violin's weight on your left hand....you stabilize and hold the violin with your chin and shoulder....no weight shall depend on left hand at all.....or you will never ever make vibrato....coz if you depend a lil (yes..even a lil
) on the left hand/left wrist.....u will see your whole violin shaking tremendously....
but even with you holding the proper way(means with shoulder and chin) u will still shake your violin when you try to do the vibrato.....just its not as bad as holding the violin on the hand.... you can try to reduce the shakiness if you practice your violin lots of time....and find the balance in it.... (remember you are holding the violin and try to shake it...so it will shake)
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2nd and 3rd position....
2nd position.... practice B flat major on the 2nd position (start your first note till the last note on 2nd position...meaning 1st B flat note on 1st finger G string) practice it until you can play with your eyes close...then go look for more 2nd position studies and etudes to practice....
3rd position...same thing....practice entire C major on 3rd position then find some 3rd position study or etude to practice with....
side note: you wil get really really frustrated when you find yourself doing mistakes from beginning to the end...dont hesitate....do the studies row by row...make sure you got the whole row correct before moving on to the next row. and finger/numbering written on the note is not encouraged by me....but at the end of the day...its up to you.....if you really got frustrated to the max level...wel... write on some of the notes....
good luck and all the best.
Nov 27 2010, 02:06 AM
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