G Minor Scale Violin Tips

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Part of the video series: The G Melodic Minor Violin Scale

G Minor Violin Scale: 1st Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 2nd Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 2nd Octave

G Minor Violin Scale: 3rd Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 4th Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 5th Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 6th Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 7th Degree

G Minor Violin Scale: 8th Degree

Violin Improvisation in G Minor

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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on how to play an G minor violin scale.

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Jason Salmon Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for seventeen years and been teaching violin for seven. He has taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which... read more

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G Minor Scale Violin Tips

So we learned everything we know on how to play a G minor melodic scale. Now let's review. We'll play our scale, name our scale degrees as we go along and the notes and the fingerings. G open string first scale degree, A first scale degree on the G string first finger half steps between two and three, B flat third scale degree, our fourth whole step away from our third C natural, fifth whole step away from our fourth, that is a D natural, fifth scale degree E natural, sixth scale degree, F sharp half step away from F natural, seventh scale degree and G natural our eighth scale degree half step away from our F sharp. So that is our G minor melodic scale.