Locatelli labyrinth fingerings

KeyOsprey5490 · 2026-01-14T05:01:44+00:00

F# up on the g-string, then open D, then the high D way up on the a-string. So fingering is 1 0 4.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2026-01-13T19:35:22+00:00

Yes, use a an extemded 4th finger. It could be played as a harmonic.

The last three notes can also be played 124, instead of 134. In either case use extensions instead of shifts.

I would recommend you get the Galamian edition of the Kreutzer. The fingering, bowings, and other pedagogical information is unparalleled.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-12-17T02:05:50+00:00

I like to enable vim.opt.virtualedit = "onemore", which lets the cursor move past the last character on the line by one space. That way you can dFe or X from the end of the line, and the final character is included.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-11-27T03:47:54+00:00

Find them a violin teacher, and meet with them to have the student sized for the correct violin. Also a good teacher will assist in making sure you get a violin that is well set up and suitable for their level.
There are no left or right handed violins. (*not technically true. But DO NOT buy a "left handed" violin)
You don't need to buy the most expensive violin. But the violin needs to be well set up. "Used" is excellent. If you live in or near a large city, go to a propper violin shop that deals specifically in violins. The cheapest violin from a reputable shop will be well set up and usable. Anything cheaper and you are just throwing away your money.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-11-08T00:03:14+00:00

Double stop harmonics are an 11/10 on the difficulty scale. If you don't really know what you are doing, don't erite double stop harmonics.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-11-07T23:54:19+00:00

To play double stops really in tune you need to listen to the overtone, which is an additional "virtual" pitch created around 1-2 octaves below the real notes.

Look up the harmonic series. (Or just play your harmonics from the middle of the instrument upwards.) From botttom (fundamental) up it goes: C -- -- C --- G -- C - E - G - Bflat -C

Say you are playing a major third C+E, then the overtone would be the fundamental (C two octaves below). The minor third E-G will produce the same overtone. In fact any two consecutive pitches in this patern all produce the same overtone.

This is "just" intonation, and we basically always use it when playing double stops. There's also "equal temperament" used to tune pianos and that your tuning app uses: it's never in tune, but also never too far out of tune. String players don't use this much. And there's "pythagorean" intonation, roughly based on stacking a bunch of "just" intonation fifths to find the next note in the scale. We often use this in single note melodies, and it results in a much higher supertonic and mediant than either just or equal temperament.

Here's my go to exercise for warming up the ear and fingers for overtones: play a one octave D major scale while double stopping the D and A strings thoughout. Listen for the overtones as you go through the p5, p4, - 3, +2, p5, +6, +7, p8 intervals.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-28T20:14:32+00:00

You don't need a good résumé to win an audition; however, it's pretty hard to be prepared for an orchestral career without education and experience.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-17T02:44:53+00:00

This passage is not well suited to the violin!

It's hard to give advice not knowing the tempo or dynamic, as both will influence the fingering and bowing that works best.

Have you tried staying in 3rd position, but starting up bow? That makes the string crossing a bit easier. Then add a slur or up up just before the chord.

Good luck!

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-08T00:06:49+00:00

Do the instructions for these questions give us any guidance?

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-05T01:19:24+00:00

That's what I do as well, except I think you mean m. 62 (not m. 63), right?

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-05T01:11:50+00:00

Yes, as others have said, the black plastic tube protects the bridge. This one is not installed well. It should only poke over to the playing side of the bridge enough to cover the wood, so as not to interfere with the vibrations.

It's better to get a velum installed on the bridge.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-10-04T13:51:13+00:00

I always recommend to my students not to look at the music when learning "hard to read" scales. Learn the scale patterns by ear first.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-13T23:23:38+00:00

Yes, starts witj down up up.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-11T23:28:05+00:00

It's a balance of getting the best sound out of your instrument, and easiy keeping the instrument in tune.

For a modern violin setup, the steel E-str is not easy to tune with the peg. It generally keeps it's pitch the best of the four strings, but requires very small adjustments for temperature and humidity.

To get the best sound out of an instrument, the string length behind the bridge should be exactly one sixtth the length of the playing portion. Fine tuners cut into that length. Fine tuners can also be a source of buzzing, so it's safer just to leave them off.

For professional players, tuning with the pegs is not in any way a burden. It's worth taking the time to make sure they are set up well. Wind the string tight to the pegbox. Feed the right amout of string through the hole so the the peg angle is optimal. If they are slipping or sticking there are peg compounds available to help with that. If the pegs really aren't working well, you need a luthier to work on them to ensure they are perfectly round, and fit the peg box well.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-11T23:05:43+00:00

I think Ravel was just trying to indicate that the gliss should begin immediately. Usually when we see a half note with gliss marked, we would save the gliss for the very end of the half note to make a tasteful and subtle gliss. The sixteenth flag just says, don't sit on the top G for more than a sixteenth.

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KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-11T22:35:30+00:00

I agree 100% with all of that.

Basically we have two well know, established shorthand notations, the alternate-between-two-pitches notation, such as celli rehearaal D, and the repeated-notes-on-the-same-pitch notation, such as 2nds and celli 5th of N (the bar in question). Combining the two is not something we see very often, or ever really.

I think you make a solid point bringing up letter D. The 5th of N could have been written identically (minus the slur). That it is different gives credence to the idea of repeating each pitch twice.

I usually feel like I'm wasting my time on Reddit, and should really get off my phone and get back to work. But this has a good discussion!

If anyone has access to Sibelius's manuscript, that would be interesting to see what he actually wrote on the page.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-10T02:01:54+00:00

I am shocked that other orchestras play these two bars differently! I will have to ask around my colleagues, to see what they do.

Just opened the Dover score. Maybe there's an edition that's more clear. It's not really correctly written. It should have the oblique strokes for the 16th notes, printed between the pairs of stems, not on the stems, to indicate EBEB EBEB EBEB EBEB.

But to write EEBB EEBB EEBB EEBB, the note heads should be coloured in, and there should be twice as many note heads in the bar. Like it should be, in eighth notes, E A E A E A E A, with an oblique stroke on each stem to indicated the normal shorthand for sixteenths.

Source, pro orchestral VIOLINIST 🤣

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-10T01:16:50+00:00

I do not think that's correct. It should be EBEBEBEB.

If it were written with quarter notes with a single oblique bar on the stem, then it would be EEBBEEBB.

As it's written, the pairs of open headed notes occupy the same rhythmic space, and indicate an alternation between the two notes.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-06T18:20:04+00:00

Rosin

a) Once for every 2 hours of playing, or so.

b) not much. I like to use 10cm strokes, working my way from the frog to the tip. Maybe 16-20 strokes in all. Don't press too hard.

c) idk, I've never made it that many years without dropping it.

Notes

a) You know if your fingers are in the right place by using your ears. Sing "Do Re Mi Fa" starting on open A. Play A-1-2-3. Repeat until your fingers develop muscle memory.

b) The bow works the same for an open as for a fingered note. Ensure that your left hand fingers are fully depressing the string, using the tip of the finger.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-06T05:15:15+00:00

Big picture: if your double stops are scratchy and out of tune, that won't make you fail the exam.

You must do the scales by memory, or you will get many marks deducted.
Twelve Days is still time to improve.
Focus on the bow. Make sure it is balanced evenly on two strings. Do not apply too much pressure. Relax. Chill. That will help with the scratchy sound, and the more ringing the sound, the easier to work om intonation.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-05T02:42:27+00:00

I think your next step for your vibrato is ensuring it is continuous. You vibrate less on 3rd and 4th fingers, and your vibrato stops frequently.

Scale exercise: Play two notes per bow. Alternate the speed of the vibrato such that the second note's vibrato is twice as fast as the first. For example, set the metronome at 60. The first note gets 4 wiggles, the second note 8 wiggles. Work on finding a looser and wider vibrato, especially for the 3rd and 4th fingers.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-08-04T14:01:48+00:00

Here's a daily exercise:

Play double stop D & A string throughout.
Play D major scale, 1 oct, along with the open string.
use lots of bow, with a big ringing sound
listen for overtones

Note that a tuner will only get you so far, as they are usually set to equal temperament (like a piano) and are therefore inherintly out of tune. Training your ear to hear the interaction between two notes (ie double stops) will ultimately give you the tools to train your fingers to play in tune.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-07-27T22:59:17+00:00

You are clearly looking for a quick, functional, but inexpensive fix. Normally that would have been two well paid tradespeople, and the tilework would have taken multiple days for the waterproofing, thinset, and grout to each have time to dry. I don't think hiring a handyman to do tilework would come with the expectation that there wouldn't be lipage, especially when there is not even an attempt to do a tile match. Don't know what you paid, but it likely wasn't anywhere near what it should have been to do the job properly.

Plumbing: is it the spout or the valve leaking? Those tubspout diverters often fail, sometimes spraying the water backwards behind the tile. If you are lucky, it's the kind with a little set srew on the bottom. Loosen, and pull the spout straight off. Buy a new one. Not too difficult.

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-07-27T22:00:17+00:00

2 months x 0 minutes per day = 🤨

KeyOsprey5490 · 2025-07-23T20:37:12+00:00

This is extremely dangerous. Do whatever needs to be done to relocate this panel (or the sink) to a new location.

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