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Summary: To be a great violinist you need more than just scales. Here is a free video clip on the 7th degree of an E 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
Now let's play our scale once again. (playing violin) Second finger on the F sharp, third G sharp, fourth A, fifth B, sixth in sharp. Now let's go over our seventh scale degree which is a D sharp. It's played with a high third finger on the A string; let's take a look. That is our D sharp. Now between C sharp our sixth scale degree and D sharp our second scale degree is a whole step. Because between sixth and seventh and the melodic minor scale is always a whole step.