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Summary: The violin music of Bach uses scales a great deal. Learn how to play the solo violin music of Bach in this free violin lesson video from a professional violinist and composer.
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Elizabeth Willis Elizabeth Willis is a classically-trained violinist and pianist. He has studied piano since the age four, and violin since the age of five. She studied at the... read more
So in this series we're going to start learning about Bach a little bit and I'm actually going to play some small passages from different solo pieces for violin for Bach. And, usually, you probably will be playing these pieces a little further down the line. But, what I can do is play small passages so that you can hear how what you've already learned, up until this point, will help you, even, a little bit later. Because what happens in a lot of pieces, especially in Bach's solos and Sonatas, and things like that, in Partitas. He's really using the scales a lot. So you're going to find that the scales that we've learned, and other scales that you've learned in the beginning are going to help you a long way down the line, as well as arpeggios. Because, usually, these are a lot of the same elements, a lot of elements that you see in pieces, you're going to recognize from scales and different etudes and different exercises that we've already done. There's always exercises that you can learn later.