We're starting to get some scales underneath their belt, we're getting through some things with scales. And by now we're starting to feel like we're playing our violin like a violin. Here's some things that we can do with our bow to give us a more robust, clean sound. For now, what we've been doing is we've been using this small part of our bow. So not at the prod or the tip, not in the middle, but somewhere in between here and here. And on these videos, you've seen me use more of my bow than those little parts, having longer bows a little bit.
And it's going to be a challenge at first, because we're not actually going to play this way. When it comes to playing our violin for real. We're just using this as an exercise to give us more control over our bone. And when we finally back off, and he's just a little less bow than the entirety of the bow, which we're going to use the entirety of the bow. Um, we'll find that we're playing the bow with more speed instead of small little strokes. We have lots more movement with her arm, back and forth.
And I'll give giving you a little example of what the difference in the tonality of your violin sounds like with a small bow versus a large bone. And we do small bows at the beginning because it's nice and easy. So, we'll start at those small bowls. I'm just gonna make my bowls bigger and longer. And to be able to play at the same speed, I have to move my arm much faster. One thing you hear right away the differences, it's louder, that doesn't always have to be louder.
As long as I play. With less pressure on my bow, I can use a nice long bow feature. And it wasn't quite as loud as it was the last time because of that pressure feature. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna play our two octave G scale that we've just learned, we're gonna play it with the full length of our bow. Some common mistakes that happen when we use the full length of our bowl is making our bow, do a kind of a wiper action means the bow is going straight across the strings. So when we do this at the very beginning, we want to do it really slow.
Look at ourselves in a mirror and make sure that our bow is nice and straight all the way across every single time. And if it is doing a little bit of wibbly wobbly, don't worry about it too much, just try to rein it in by doing it slower even in this video that we're doing, it's going to be at a certain speed. If it's too fast to get your bonuses straight, then practices slower by yourself without this video and then come back to the video. So here we go. We're gonna play our two octave G scale. Started with a down bow, but from the frog all the way to the tip from the tip three to one All right, now we can practice that at home practice that a lot and we'll see in the next lesson