Violin Lesson #11; Straight Bowing Techniques pt. 1

Visit www.toddehle.com - Todd Ehle teaching straight bowing techniques. 1st of 2.

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[20BlueJay09]

Hi Prof. Ehle, thanks for all the videos you uploaded. I'm trying to learn violin by myself since I have to access to a violin teacher. I hope I'm doing everything correctly.

Anyway, when bowing normally (say, just mp or mf not forte), do you have to put pressure on the bow or I just need to place the bow on top of the string?

Thanks!

[professorV]

Hi BlueJay, You do have to add "weight". If you look in my Playlists you will find four videos on tone production. Perhaps they will help you with this. TE

[BatesLine]

Wow! I love your videos on violin technique. Richard Fuchs was my teacher through high school and part of college BEFORE he left Fayetteville, AR. What a GREAT teacher - and inspiration. Now I have an 11 year old on his 2nd year of violin. It is great to have the videos teaching particular techniques. Great bonus in 1 month before concerts. THANK YOU. Straight bows and tone will keep us busy for a while. mmclassics

[professorV]

Hi, great to hear from another Fuchs student!

[brian777999]

My centre mounted chinrests arrived yesterday; Berber, flat Flesch, Zitsman and the Schulze-Priska. I have found that they alter the tone of the violins compared to the side mounted chinrests. Have you found this ? The violins sound quite different with centre mounted chinrests....not worse, just different.

[professorV]

Yes, they all do that! Try playing with no chinrest at all and your violin will also sound different.

[killergirls]

Todd, you are a very good teacher.You use a simple approach to get the message across. keep up the good work sir!

[ARocker101]

This been really help, I use mirror sometime, see how my movment are.

[scoot5940]

thank you! I do tend to lose it over the bridge or down the neck if I don't keep focused. will practice with techique. Felt with time would be automatic.But got some good advice here ty

[AtticusStount]

Before I start, I think these lessons are great. Now my problem: I did "get" the straight bowing thing, but have reverted to wonky bowing. How does this happen?

[cpman0012]

Great video I play the viola at my school and we are learning the bow straight

[pianomonica]

You are a gifted educator and explain things so beautifully .I am having my 12 year old son watch your videos, in an attempt to make the sounds he produces with his violin resemble something even just a little bit closer to music. If it works, you will be my hero for life. :)

[ricaard]

I love the eraser analogy! Thank you, Todd!

[aiayumi]

when i bow, the bow keeps on sliding instead of staying in one spot....is there a way to fix it?

[maryam0psy]

love u ... you make so much sense when u explain simple stuff...i love that

[TheAwesomeRecords]

Professor V-

I seem to be having trouble getting noise to come out of my instrument when i up-bow (i think thats what its called), it works fine when i bow down and i am keeping consistant pressure and angles and such, any thoughts?

[Hakkology]

Hello Prof. Ehle.

I'm learning violin new and i just got myself a teacher. What we did at first was to use all the bow at first, play a full note which is very difficult for my wrist and i'm still having difficulty with it. But now that i watched your videos, i know exactly how the motion has to be, thanks so much for it . Still i have difficulty with using the bow smoothly, making scratchy sounds but i think i'm getting it slowly :).