Okay, we're going to learn how to put on a shoulder rest. Now I can only describe it the way I have it with my shoulder rest, which is a wolf and I'm going to show you what that insignia looks like and it's a little blurry on this side was a little wolf as w o Ll 14 Primo patented. This is for for for size violin or full size because I'm an adult, I play a full sized violin. And you can see that they have these little rubber feet. And these, they're the little rubber feet help protect the wood of your violin doesn't scratch it, which is great. And you can also see, this isn't too blurry.

There's a threaded kind of bolt action and not feature so you can Make your violin and go higher on one side or lower on one side. So it kind of rests more athlete to your body because some folks have shoulders that slope more. Some folks have chests that kind of stick out so that they, it'll affect the angle of their violin. So what this does is that it is able by adjusting that by changing the angles so that it fits more comfortably to you on your shoulder. Okay, so we put this back down. And so your violin looks like this where the the chin rest is.

When you turn it over backwards, that chin rest is now on the bottom. So where it was on the top before, it's now on the bottom on the backside, so imagine that looks like this on your lap. So I'm sitting there Stand on my lap. But for you holding it up here just so as you're looking down, your violin will look like this with the chin rest on the side. When we're hooking in our shoulder rest, we're going to start on the chin rest side. So as it goes opposite are on the bottom part where the chin rest side goes.

We're going to hook this side in first. And you can see that your violin has this little ridge, or most violence do. Well, you can kind of see that these feet are meant to go inside that ridge. So and this little port here is just kind of so that I can play electric violin, so don't worry about that for now. So it just simply gets set right on that ridge. So it kind of looks like this from this edge.

Now, where you want to have it put is for most folks You're going to put this foot pretty close to the edge of this point. So it'll go to the edge of the point. And on the other side of this, the shoulder rest is pretty flexible. But what we're going to do instead of pulling it to get that flex, we're going to start down so like a clock, a clock arm, you're going to pull it down, while holding your index finger and your middle finger on the other side where you've placed it on the violin. So it stays there. Right, and now like a like a clock arm, you're going to pull it down so it's no longer on the violin.

And then you're going to set it where that little ridges and you're simply going to slide it around the violin. So the way that you look at it on in your lap, you're gonna hook the chin rest side, you're gonna just wing it down so that the feet are no longer touching the violin. And you're going to swing it up till it touches and then slide it on your violin so that you're about halfway between this point and this point, so again at a 45 degree angle, and this is not always perfect for most folks. So sometimes depending on your, your shoulder size or shape, it'll look more like this. Or more like this depending on what's more comfortable to you. But this is a good place to start where the bottom part where the shoulder rest is.

Is close to this point. And the top part is that a 45 between this angle and this angle and a 45 there we have it.