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So
the bow.
The bow is so underrated and
sometimes so ignored.
And the bow, as far as I'm concerned,
is, if any of you watch Harry Potter,
it's like a magic wand, and can do so
many amazing things on the violin, and
can make you sound so advanced.
That being said, it also can make
you sound very much like an amateur.
So your ability to use this magic wand,
this bow,
it's kind of your sort of device,
whereby things that you do on the violin
can sound really even that much better,
that much more magical,
that much more smooth,
that much more interesting.
And then you can do tricks and whatnot.
And people who can use their bow in a way.
I still, myself,
am amazed at certain people that have
an incredible amount of bow control and
use it in ways that I am still mystified
as how are they able to do that?
So we talked about how the bow,
essentially,
moves from frog to tip and middle to tip.
That being said, the whole point,
at the end of the day,
what we're trying to do
is figure out a way for
the bow to make a sound,
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that's eventually very smooth and
very continuous.
This is similar to,
let's say, a brass player or
a wind player, is the air that
goes through the instrument.
If you're playing a trumpet or
a clarinet, you have to use your air.
And the flow of the air,
it's basically the flow of this bow.
And the more you can control
the smoothness of this,
the more you can do in terms of
playing a phrase, or making a sound,
or a different color with the violin.
So what I like to start with is just
basically how the bow can start
making smooth, continuous sound.
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Uninterrupted,
to the point that once you get so good at
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you can almost disguise and
not hear the bow changes at either end.
In the next videos, I'm going to
show you the keys to doing that and
how you technically can pull that
off at the tip and at the frog.
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