Thursday, July 24, 2014

The Importance Of A Proper Violin Wrist Position

By Sharron Cantu


Being a fiddler, provides certain benefits to you. It can not only give flexibility to your fingers, but it also makes them stronger. Playing string instruments are intended for all ages. It also seems to be an easy task, once you have watched performances of most professional fiddlers. However, for beginners, it is certainly a hard task. To begin, you have to consider the proper violin wrist position.

Learning the right position of the left hand is a tricky task for most beginners. It is a position that will make an awkward feeling to anyone, since we are not familiar with it. We tend to tighten the neck of the instrument. This would make a tension in your hand as you start learning new skills. As they say, patience is a virtue. So, while learning, you have to be patient all the time.

Most of the violinists always maintain their right hand positioning. This is their advantage, since it can produce wonderful sound, intonation and agility in providing a smooth performance. To achieve this posture, your wrist should hang down and straightly from the violin. Let your hand and arm smoothly to create an endless curved line.

To have an understanding why it is necessary to obtain a great posture, especially your wrist and bending position, you should also learn the biology of the hands and each need of the art music player. Basically, there are no muscles in the fingers. They consist tendons that are connected to a muscle in your upper arm. Their main task is to provide an impulsion of movement. Most of the tendons are strings pulled by muscles.

Normally, we have joints that are flexible to the movements. To strengthen the muscles of the fingers, the joints must permit messages in transferring a certain strength through them. Thus, in order to accomplish this, the joints should leave the primary role of its flexibility.

Once you mistakenly do your part, you have chances to get some pain and swelling in your limb areas. This will result to a certain painful illness called tendonitis. If you still continue to play, the pain will continue as well. This would be painful in your arm and fingers. It has a bigger chance to develop into a carpal tunnel syndrome.

You have to be careful always, once the music you played requires you to shift, vibrate and a bend position. This could also be dangerous. There are many fiddlers that move their wrist slightly apart from the neck if they want to shift, vibrate and play extended fast notes. However, this also requires effort and time to obtain enough strength and flexibility skills. To achieve your goals, you have to discover some of your skills, especially in your performance.

In order to avoid all possible problems, it is important to learn the proper way of holding your instrument. Since, there are lots of developmental syndromes that may occur in the long run. Always remember that the harder you play, the higher your risk. Since, these chronic conditions are common to most string players, then you should avoid having one.

Once you have learned all these conditions, it is important to enhance more you learning and skills in playing a violin. This way, you will obtain a certain level of awareness and confidence while performing. If you are knowledgeable enough with all the possibilities, you can also avoid chronic conditions that will be affect your life.




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