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Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn A Minor scale arpeggio tips on it in this free video clip series.
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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
We've now learned how to play and look at it on staff paper our A tonic minor arpeggio. We've explained the thirds, how to go up in thirds. We've explained the fingerings, the notes, basically everything you need to know. Let's review it on the violin one more time. First finger starts off with an A natural. Third finger, C natural. E natural, first finger. Open A. C natural. Then E natural, open E. Then we have our third finger, which is A. Then we shift up to fourth position, first finger. And we end on an A natural, same as our first scale degree.