Time for another exercise, what we're going to do is we're going to introduce the second finger. Now the second finger, you can see that what we've learned so far is our nut in our index finger is about one inch away from each other. Our second finger is going to be another about an inch away. So it's about the same distance as we used before. Now, when we bring our violin up to play, it's going to be kind of important that your fingers and your knuckles are doing the right thing. And what I mean by that is the stretching of your fingers to be able to reach for that second finger.

Because you can stretch two different ways here's how to stretch wrong and a very common way to incorrectly stretch. So what I mean by that is if I had my finger straight and I tried to stretch my fingers all over the place Fingers would look like they have these big huge spaces in them. And that is the hardest way to try to stretch your fingers. Instead if we have our fingers at the right angle, and we still touch the wood to that spot, right. And then we put our fingers down. We're going to want to try to keep our knuckles together.

And what I mean by our knuckles together is notice how there isn't a space in between the knuckles. So you see this knuckle here, and then how it's close to this finger and then there's no space in between there. That's how we want to look and if I take my fingers away, really I'm stretching like this and no separation in the fingers. Something to keep on the top of your brain when you're trying to do this exercise. Okay, so now we're what we're gonna do is we're gonna play open a and we're gonna put our first finger down and I'll give you the note. Go for her to.

Once I get that I'm gonna be done. So let's like this down bow on, open up bow. Up bows gonna be on my first finger, the B note. The next note is going to be two inches away from where your first finger is. So so far, we're going to go again, but now on the two, C sharp Okay, so this actually Precise goes like this. I'm gonna go bomb bomb bomb and I look down.

I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna reset my bow and do it again. So this is how the exercise goes. I'm going to show you one thing and we'll do it together three, tune Ready go. If at any time your second finger isn't sounding quite like mine does, it's too sharp or too low. We're gonna make sure that our finger slides around a little bit until it matches the right pitch.

So let's try that exercise one more time. One last time. No great job and we'll see in the next lesson