The first thing we're going to learn about is our bow. So I have my bow here, and the different parts of the bow or the frog, this screw, the stick, the tip, of course, the horsehair. And the part that we're going to look at first is the screw. We're going to figure out how to operate it. Now a screw is literally a screw. And what is in charge of is making this frog this wood piece here get tighter or more loose.

So when I tighten this up or loosen it up, it will make the horse hair get looser and more tight. So you can kind of see it in a quick fast motion. Loose here are more tight. Alright. So when I tighten this up all the way you can see this horsehair slowly getting tighter. Right.

So this is just pretty much how it works. And on the inside of your frog, you can see once I get this out the nut this little guy right there and just like there's a bolt and nut in the threads on the inside. Simply work like that on the inside now On your age and your ability to manipulate these little things, you may not want to take this this frog quite yet, but I'm just kind of showing you how it works. So, before we get started and trying to hold the ball, we want to figure out how much tension we want to have on our bow or horse here. So when it's resting where I'm not playing the bow on make sure that my horse hair is loose enough, comes down and touches this fulcrum point of the stick. Right.

If it gets too loose, you can start to see the hair hanging down or draping over the stick. So we're trying to do as we're trying to get the the hair now Could be up high or top so that there's space in between here. But just low enough where it's touching the wood or in my case carbon fiber. And when it's at that point, we know that we're ready to put a wear bow or not played anymore. And the reason why we loosen up that horsehair is because your bow will have a tendency to warp one way or the other. If it's over time taught like that, or has tension on the horse here.

Okay. Now, how do I know how much tension that I want to have on my bow, part of it feel because every bow is weighted a little bit differently. And each bow is a little bit different with the person who's re heared or put horsehair on their bone and what we want to have in I have a pretty small Pinkie right now I'm a pretty small gal and five foot nine. Now my pinky, the width of my pinky is about the width of space you want to have in between where the wood is, or the horsehair hands. Now, you can see that I'm putting my finger on the backside of the horse here, which is okay. But what you never want to do is put your fingers on the part where you put the rosin.

We haven't discussed rosin, but the front facing part of our horse hair. So we have oil on our fingers, and we just don't want to get it mixed up with that resonance. We'll learn about rosin, the rosin, which we'll learn about later, okay, so let's get our bow tight enough so that we can put our pinky in between the stick and the horse here, and then we're ready. Ready to hold the phone