Warming Up For Fiddle Practice
Posted on February 26, 2020
Like when you do any exercise, warming up for fiddle practice is beneficial.
Yesterday, Violinspiration released a new video titled The Most Effective Warm Up for Beginner Violinists. Much of this I’d learned through the lessons at her violin academy, but I didn’t really think of it as a warm up, so to speak. Until now.
This video goes into a lot of detail, even showing how to play a scale and demonstrating the bowing exercises. But to summarize, she touches on scales, long bowing, slurs and bowing across strings. She even suggests the following scales for beginners:
- A Major 1 Octave
- D Major 1 Octave
- G Major 2 Octaves
- C Major 1 Octave
I’m quite pleased because I started adding these scales to my practice before Christmas. So I have part of the warm-up already built into my weekly focus! I think the rest of her advice is very good, so I will be adding more bowing exercises and slurs to my focus, and including a warm-up section starting next week!