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Summary: Learn about solfege how to play violin scales in G minor in this free video clip. Get violin lessons and music theory tips from an expert.
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Jason Salmon Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for seventeen years and been teaching violin for seven. He has taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which... read more
Now we are going to go over the solfege. You probably don't know what solfege is or you do but you just don't know it. Solfege in a minor scale is Do Re Me Fa So La Ta Do. So all you have to do is apply those names to the scale. So since we have a G for our first scale degree, Do is going to be a G. Let's start out, let's try this. (playing violin) G is Do, Ra Me Fa So La Ta Do remember the eighth in the first scale degree are the same note, so obviously Do is eight and Do is one.