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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on the 5th 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 minor melodic scale once again. (playing violin) Scale degree number one F natural, scale degree number two G natural, scale degree number three A flat, scale degree number four is B flat, scale degree number five C natural. Now let's learn our fifth scale degree which is a C natural, it's played with your second finger on the A string. (playing violin) It's bringing our fifth scale degree B flat and our sixth and our fifth I mean, C natural is a whole step. B flat is a C natural is a whole step.