Playing Skills: Kneading Strings for Beginners of Violin

08-06-2024

Playing Skills: Kneading Strings for Beginners of Violin
Rubbing strings is one of the most expressive playing skills for violin, erhu and guitar. Adding proper strings in the proper place of the phrase will be more vivid in sound than the phrase without strings. String kneading is a very expressive skill in violin playing, which can be used to express every sound or every paragraph with different styles and characteristics. The key point of string kneading is how to find the best action of the hand, and how to play the unique style and characteristics of each paragraph with the speed and width of string kneading. Both elbow and wrist should be practiced. In order to show the best musical characteristics, the speed and width of the string are selected.

When the wrist is rubbed back and forth, the joints of the fingers are driven, and the touch points of the fingers cannot be displaced with the wrist rubbing. When practicing wrist kneading, you can start with three fingers. Because rubbing with three fingers can make the movement more relaxed, then practice two fingers and one finger, and when practicing four fingers, you can also rub the three fingers close to the four fingers to help, which will make the effect of trembling more comfortable. On the basis of wrist string rolling practice, you can gradually learn and be familiar with arm string rolling and finger string rolling, in order to better enrich the expressive force in performance and adapt to the needs of various dynamics and emotional changes.