 This video will just be a little primer for the finger pattern exercises and how to use my video resources here on our YouTube site for violin and viola, so The first thing that we need to do for violins and violas is to help them find third position Finding third position really isn't that hard particularly if you're going to stay there So the way I have violins and violas find it is to simply play from an open string to their third finger In first position an open to three interval so they hear the interval that would be a perfect fourth for here comes the bride Now once they've done that I encourage them to move their hand up and now use their first finger to play the same note By finding third position in that manner They're now in that spot and ready to play the finger pattern exercises now I've provided Finger pattern exercises that will go through the G string Then to the D string then to the A string and then to the E string Using four quarter notes on each step of the finger pattern exercise I have students play the four quarter note finger pattern exercise Then move to the three quarter note exercise Then to the two and the two quarter note exercises includes one quarter note also at the end of Combine the two quarter note and one quarter note exercise together as you watch the videos that'll be really clear to you So we're going to find third position Then play four quarter notes on each step in this case we'll use the three four finger pattern Then we'll move to the D string and do the exact same thing And so on we then move to the A string do the same thing and then to the E string Once the student has really gotten good at doing with fourth quarter notes We'll move to three quarter notes then on to two and one now just to explain the whole idea that we're playing Four quarter notes on each step is to allow the student time to adjust their fingers and find the nuance of strong intonation With four quarter notes and then it's just a little quicker when you've got three quarter notes a little quicker with two and A little quicker with one My recommendation is that students begin with the three four finger pattern exercise Go ahead and use the videos that we've provided You'll notice that we've got videos that show me playing the finger pattern exercise And then we've got other videos that really provide a harmonic underpinning for the exercises Where you can hear chords changing and I find that it really makes the intonation much better when you hear the harmonic in Underpinning so try them both see which ones work for you and it'll be very clear I recommend that you start with the three four finger pattern then move to the two three Then move to the one two and finish with the open finger pattern for all the strings And I've got these videos provided for violin and for viola. Good luck