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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on the 3rd degree of an F minor violin scale.
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Jason Salmon Jason Salmon has played the violin for more than a decade. He has taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which gives inner-city youths affordable vi... read more
Let's play our F melodic minor scale. (Playing violin) Scale degree number one, second finger on D string, G natural third finger from the D string. Now let's go over our third scale degree which is A flat remember because between two and three in a melodic minor scale is a half step. That is our third scale degree A flat between G and A flat is a half step. Remember fourth finger D string, A flat is our third scale degree.