Posture for Playing the Violin

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Summary: Start playing the violin, the world's most classy musical instrument, today; learn the correct posture for holding and playing a violin in this free video music lesson on playing beginner violin.

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Amy Oliver Amy Oliver began violin in early 1990 and has been playing ever since. She has taught lessons for small children and taken lessons from players and conductors... read more

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Posture for Playing the Violin

One of the most important parts of playing the violin is making sure you have correct posture. When your sitting down in a chair to play your violin always make sure your feet are flat and down in front of you. Not criss-crossed not crossed over, not up like this, not out like this, always keep your hells together and your feet flat on the floor. One of the other most important things you can do is make sure your back is never touching the back of the chair. If your back against the chair your not in the correct position to be able to reach as far as you need to. So what you'll need to do at the very first is make sure you are sitting at the edge of the chair so that you have no opportunity to lean against the back of the chair and you'll always be keeping your back straight. Then what you'll need to do is make sure you are creating a straight line and what I mean by a straight line is you'll take your violin, putting it up on your shoulder, and make sure your nose your chin your elbow and your left foot create a straight line from top to bottom. Once your done doing that you'll notice that you'll need to make sure that your wrist is not collapsed. Collapsing your wrists takes away your ability to stretch your fingers as far as they need to go to play the violin. You'll always want to curve your wrists just a little bit so there is a open concave between your arm and the violin so that your fingers can stretch all the way over.