Okay, this is part two of holding your violin. So, we'll discuss the where to kind of hold it on our hand, how to get it up to our shoulder, and our left shoulder. There's a couple more really important points here. To make this all happen and work correctly for you. Were going to look at on our violin is that little black dot there. And really, it's an end pin.

And you can kind of see where it is on your violin. And sometimes they're black and sometimes they're brown or other colors, right? But it's that little guy right there and as a guide, we can use it as a guide to figure out where it is. And what we're going to try to do is we're going to line it up with our chin. If your guy your Adam's apple, or the very middle part of your neck. So if it's pointed towards the middle part of your neck, you're in good shape, where we fall apart or we have trouble If it gets away from the middle part of our neck or too far and and is pointed away from our neck to again or too far, but now it's pointing towards the middle of our and that can our are pretty good.

Now the next thing that we want to do is we want to have the angle of the violin be at a 45 degree angle away from our body so towards our left side, out in the left, so if our violent is rest straight in front of you, and then it's at a 90 degree angle, cut that in half a 45 degree angle halfway between straight forward and off to the side is 45 degrees. And that's kind of the angle that we want our violin to be at. Okay, so when we bring that violin up after we have it in the crevice, we want to make sure that that little button is pointed kind of directly in the middle of our throat. And then our chin sits on this chin rest, you have different sizes of chin rests and shapes such as, wherever it is just in the divot part of our chin rest, where chin goes.

Now, granted, I have one of these, and I'll show you how to put that on later. But it helps me hold up this file in without falling, which is kind of fun, right? So, so the next part is, this part here, helps me hold up the violin, but also when that when you have that shoulder rest, it also helps you not have to feel like you're lifting up the bow so it doesn't fall when you when you take down your hand. So again, having this button, we'll call it a button at the beginning, but it's really an end pin. holding it up, and then making sure your chin is about the same height. As your scroll, so we're making sure that it's there all the time so it's not too high.

So you can kind of see that my scroll is about the same height as my eyes. And it's that dude down to part, two low words down here or where my neck is. It's really kind of chin, chin and scroll at the same level, for the height, making sure that my wrist is straight. I'm holding it in that crevice and our body isn't slumped over. We're just sitting up my straight shoulders back, and then we're we're good from there.