Now that we have a good handle on the third finger, there's some other things that I want to talk about. Before we get started. What we're going to talk about is having our wrist straight and our elbow in the right way. So I wanted to show you remember, the chin and the scroll are about it's supposed to be about the same height. And I tend to hold my violin just lightly lower than that because it feels comfortable with me. People have different size shoulders and stuff.

And for me, it's just a good, good ergonomic feel right about here. Now, if you just watch my wrist, you can see that my wrist isn't bent one way, one way or the other. So it's not bending this way. So imagine a straight line up and down between your hand and your forearm. If it were to be bent one way or the other, it wouldn't be a straight line anymore. So here I was gonna try to have that straight line.

The other thing is you're supposed to have a straight line here. So if I was to draw a straight line, and I curled my hand one way or the other, now I want to have a straight line again, right. So just think about that straight line being something that you think about all the time, and being in front of a mirror really helps with that as well. I'm going to bring up my violin a little bit higher so that you can see my wrist and my wrist. my palm of my hand actually is in a position that if it was a mirror, I would see myself so you should be looking at the palm of your hand. When you have your hand open like this.

I'm looking and imagining that flat surface or looking directly at the palm of your hand, without it being at an angle or too much about it. Angle words. Now face that way. Okay, so now we're ready for our next exercise. And we're going to use that open 123 down on on C sharp that three is real close to the to two fingers. Now gonna be a little bit different, because we're going to go down the scale.

So we all we've done so far is really fill out the scale. We're gonna do down the scale now. So it's gonna look like this. We have an opening the one, the two, and the three by the threes, I mean the fingers that we're using. Then at this point, I'm not going to play this three again, but I'm going to go directly down to two. I can left it out.

One more time. Open a 123 ready We'll see in the next lesson