Violin Techniques: Wrist Position

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So Naglamia technique when you are looking at the wrists he believed that your wrists should stay straight. Sometimes in different types of other playing it is believed that you could have your wrists out a little bit maybe like that or bring it up like that but really in terms of what he taught he believed that your wrist should create this straight line and if you think about it it actually does make a lot of sense because you want to keep a straight line all the way up from your hand, through your wrist and through your arm so that it creates this nice triangle here. So in specifically looking at the wrist his idea was that the wrist is straight and it bends just slightly when you go up in other positions and in that first basic position what you have is a nice straight line so when you move levels it makes it that much easier. What happens is if your wrist is out like that it is a little more difficult to move from the lower strings up to the higher ones but when you are creating a straight line it makes it very easy to play.

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