After we have our first exercise out of the way, I'm going to make sure my index finger work it hits or my first finger is about one inch away from this nut here, this raised piece of wood. And we're going, I'm just going to play this note. And it's going to be on the A string or the second strings, the first string or the second string, e than a, so the second string that you see, so it's the second little string and cominis my bow, and I'm gonna play it for a really long time. And keep in mind our hands touching our fingers curled around. We're not directly up up on the tip of the pad, and we're not collapsing our finger, but pretty close to being on the very tip of our finger. Now once I have that in place, I want to play this note for you and big long bows.
And what's going to happen is you're going to at home, you're going to follow along with me. And if you, you're going to slide your finger around just a little bit about in that inch area until it sounds exactly what I'm playing. So if it sounds too low, you'll slide it up. And if it's too high, you'll have to slide your finger down a little bit. Now, here's some tricks to be able to help you with this exercise. If you can hum or sing the note that you're playing, so listen to it real well.
And then you sing the note that I'm playing. It'll be pretty evident if you're too low or if you're too high instead of guessing. So let's say the pitch was a it's not but delicious and The pitch that you were playing was a sound pretty similar, but uh, most people, when they hear the tone, they can audibly hear that a is a higher tone than a, but some people can't. And for those people, this exercise works a lot better because it helps get their ear calibrated to hearing different tones. So if you had to go, Ah, and you had to actually send a higher note, and my note was the higher note, then you know that you'd have to slide your finger forward. If you were to highlight Yeah.
And you had to come down with your voice, then chances are you have to take your finger and slide it down to the right now. Okay, so we're going to try this exercise. And I'm going to play a B note. The B note is on the A string, second string. That was my first finger And hopefully that was long enough for you to be able to find that first string. First thing or note being No.
And it wasn't just rewind the video and then try it again as many times as it takes for you to be able to get a good sounding B notes and sounds exactly the same as mine. Alright, we'll see you in the next Exercise