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Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn a 4th degree Bb (B Flat) Major scale arpeggios on it in this free video clip series.
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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 B Flat tonic major arpeggio. 1st Scale degree, B Flat, second finger. 2nd Scale degree, D natural. 3rd At natural, we switched strings to the D string. (Audio demo) Let's go over our 4th scale degree, which is a B Flat. It's played, the B Flat is now played with your first finger on the A string. First finger on the A string. We've now switched from D to F natural, 3rd scale degree, to A string B Flat.