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So a little bit earlier on in some other series you might have seen me lift my pinky finger
a little bit when I was first showing you the bow hold. This is just to show that the
pinky finger is really a stabilizer but really if you have a strong bow grip you find that
the pinky finger doesn't really need to be there at all. Now you can actually hold the
bow without it, when you're playing however you should have your pinky finger down. This
is just to show stability and after you've been practicing your bow hold for a while
that your hand should start to stabilize and you'll find after a while your pinky finger
really is kind of a guiding finger like this. So you can lift it up and down and everything
else stays the same. Really it's your other four fingers that are helping to balance your
bow especially your thumb that's coming up from the bottom. But one thing you can try
that will teach you stability in your bow a, maybe after you've been practicing your
bow hold for a while is to try lifting your, your, pinky finger up just a little bit. This
will show the stability that you have in your bow hold. It also shows that your other fingers
are positioned nicely on the bow.