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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 E minor violin scale.
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Jason Salmon Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for more than 15 years and been teaching violin for seven. He taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which ... read more
Now let's basically review our scale. We learned everything we needed to know to play E minor melodic scale. We looked at it on staff paper, we figured out all the fingerings, we basically figured out everything we needed to know. So let's review now (playing violin) one F sharp second scale degree, G natural, A natural, B natural, C sharp, D sharp seventh scale degree, an eighth scale degree is E natural. Remember between two and three and seven and eight in a melodic minor scale whatever melodic scale it is it's always half steps. Everything else is whole steps, I hope you had a good time learning our E minor melodic scale.