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So, what I want to show you before anything else
is... we did the "winging", remember?
and we did the "winging" with suspended arms
and we did it in rhythm.
We didn't just do it this way
we did it... papa papa
We did it in a swing back. Can we all do that?
and... papa papa
Am I right if I do this?...
pa-pa-pa-pa
no
Swing it, swing it,
And am I right if I do it...? pa pa pa pa
So, find your... find your level
and you don't do anything...
Don't look so serious
It puts me off, honestly
OK, you put the violin on the floor, next to you
and, you see, what we are doing now,
just simply say it with me
papa papa
Thank you So, it's a swing back, OK?
Now try to do it this way
with your wrists tight
papa papa
Feel it is more difficult? Yes, yes,
So, let the wrists go
and it'll be... papa papa
So, it's from here, yes
So this is...
oh lah! Much lighter arms... much lighter arms
This is going to be... let me get your bow and I'll show you
This is the lower...
The bow is divided into two parts
the lower half and the upper half
and when you do this movement
you are moving the bow with the shoulder hinge.
If I move it like that, this has to go,
unless you have a bow hold.
So, you don't open this
If you want to do...
I don't teach bowing technique
What I teach is rythmic...
rythmic music, rythmic music, like...
What is the Allegro...
...Allegro quavers?
the Allegro quavers?
Can you say papa papa?
Can you say it with Allegro quavers?
and... papa papa
Can you say it a little happier?
Allegro means happy,
ask Monica.
OK? So, here we go
and... papa papa
Thank you, that's fine
So what you do
is to prevent it doing it from... the bow
This is the first...
Look, this is all in the DVD
It goes that you put your...
The touch, the eyes and the voice
so you say... because we're going to do it on the G string,
you say G G G G
So, you put your finger there,
here, here
the index finger, just one finger,
and you look at it
and you say G G G G
Thank you In a happier way please
G G G G
Thank you, that's music
That's music
Did you see the...
That's music, ok?
And you didn't do anything with the bow, OK?
Now I can't go into real deep because
I'd take hours
I just show you... a bit
Some of it
Did everybody do that, by the way?
Let me see...
Because when I work with one person I work with everybody.
So here we go
and... G G G G
So, here you are... and you say
papa papa
papa papa
Everybody?
papa papa
That's all right
Your elbow should have always a little curve
so, you see, if I get this it's very straight
it's always curvy
and you go there
this finger
and you say papa papa
the finger and look at it
and say to it
papa papa
Thank you, and just do it twice
Here we go, papa papa
papa papa
What could be simpler?
OK, what we are doing
is organising ourselves
so we know what we are doing,
we are organising ourselves
because when we play we just play...
and hoping and practising
but we don't really know what we are doing.
We try to strengthen the fingers,
we try to do the bow
but we don't really know what we are doing
and this is a very precise Allegro movement. OK?
Now, you get the violin and the bow please,
and I'll show you what we are going to do
Here we are with the violin,
I showed you the no-violin hold,
and here now I'm going to the G string
and then I say...
I look at my arm first and...
watch me... I say it first, I say G G G G
then I say it, think and play it.
So, I don't even look at the bow
OK, now... Everybody, I say
First we say G G G G
then look at it and G G G G
Stop!
OK, that's another very important thing.
ehm... If you say G G G G
you gave yourself an order,
that's very good,
If you say G G G G you give yourself an order
and do that.
And don't go on, because you didn't give an order.
So, this is another very important thing of the New approach:
that you decide inside what you are going to do,
and not the body goes on heedlessly
and directless... without any direction.
You see? We don't have any order
inside us.
We are all helter-skelter,
trying to do well here, trying to do well here,
from outside inward and get tenser and tenser.
With the best intentions in the world
and people spend HOURS in practising.
Of course, there are many good violinists
and very powerful violinists,
but if you ask them afterwards,
"Did you enjoy it?"
I know, because I see them,
you don't know what's going on inside them.
OK? and my...
Look,
I know both sides of the coin,
and so my whole aim is
to train teachers
to teach children
to prevent all this awful situation
which we are now in,
which we inherited,
it's not that we invented it.
OK? That's why I love to work with teachers, especially,
because that's the future.
So, that was the Allegro
Allegro... quavers.