Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Importance Of A Proper Violin Wrist Position

By Sharron Cantu


Playing a violin provides various benefits to everyone. When you learn to play a string instrument, your fingers and arms also learn new physical skills. Although, it is quite hard for most beginners, but with hard work and practice, it will expand your horizons beyond violin. To get started, it is important to consider the right violin wrist position. Keep in mind that no matter what your age is, your ability and love for music is more important.

Learning the proper positioning of your hand is sometimes tricky for a beginner. This kind of position is sometimes awkward, since all of us are not familiar with it. Once you are a beginner, you seem to clench the neck of the violin. This way, it can create a great tension to your hand. However, this is also the start to learn some of your skills in playing music. You only have to be patient in all throughout your learning process.

Every violinist maintains a proper left hand positioning that will result to a better sound, agility, intonation and gives an accurate performance. In achieving this posture, the wrist should hang down straight from the instrument and arm and hand must be smooth and should create a continuous 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.

Usually, people have their respective joints that are most flexible to their movements. In order to make them stronger, joints must transfer a strength all throughout the muscles. To achieve this, each joint must have a primary role to obtain a level of 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.

If a certain art music needs you to make shifting and vibrato, you have to be cautious in bending movements. There are violinists who tend to move their wrist slowly away from the neck when playing. If they need to move faster, for a fast note, then they also need to move according the tone. To achieve a certain goal, you also have to discover something about you when it comes to performing.

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.

After knowing all the risks and the importance of having a good position while playing your violin, it would be easier for you to obtain the level of confidence and the awareness. Once you know all these, then you can also prevent some conditions that could affect your performance.




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