How To Play The Violin With A Long Neck
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In today's video, I'm going to address exactly a common issues amongst violinists. How do you play the violin with a long neck? We will be taking a closer look.
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Let's address the long neck problem.
"Do I need a high chin rest and or do I need a high shoulder rest?"
Well, probably neither of the two. Because, I'll tell you a little story before we get to the whole tutorial. I actually got injured by adjusting my chin rest and adjusting my shoulder rest. And, it got so bad where you know your feet fall asleep you get the needle feeling in your feet?
Well, I was feeling that in my fingers. It took my about a year in music college to really find, while working with a professor, figuring out how I'm supposed to hold my instrument and how I can avoid injury for the future.
And by then I had a very tall chin rest, and a very tall shoulder rest. Because my neck is kind of tall and it's kind of long and all of a sudden I put my violin on my shoulder and I have so much space left.
And you're probably thinking, "Should I, even myself, need a high chin rest?"
That's actually not the case.
A lot of students and a lot of teachers who teach oftentimes say, "Okay since you have a tall neck let's raise the shoulder rest, or raise the chin rest." If I had to choose one of the two, I would lift the chin rest a little higher and not the shoulder rest.
Let me tell you why.
Because, when I lift the shoulder rest up my angle on my shoulder is actually going to be a lot higher and I'm actually going to experience a lot of pain in my shoulder.
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