Friday, July 25, 2014

The Benefits Of A Proper Violin Wrist Position

By Sharron Cantu


Being a fiddler, provides certain benefits to you. It can not only give flexibility to your fingers, but it also makes them stronger. Playing string instruments are intended for all ages. It also seems to be an easy task, once you have watched performances of most professional fiddlers. However, for beginners, it is certainly a hard task. To begin, you have to consider the proper violin wrist position.

Learning to play music and the proper hand positioning is not easy, especially for newbies. Anyone can feel an awkward feeling, especially if you are not used to it. Once you hold an instrument, you tend to clench it and that could give a certain tension in your hand. However, this could only be a start, since you still need to undergo lots of challenges if you really want learn some skills.

Most of the violinists always maintain their right hand positioning. This is their advantage, since it can produce wonderful sound, intonation and agility in providing a smooth performance. To achieve this posture, your wrist should hang down and straightly from the violin. Let your hand and arm smoothly to create an endless curved line.

To have a great understanding why most of the violinists should keep their wrist straightly than a bending position, you have to understand first the biology of the hand and the needs of the art music performers. Actually, there are no muscles in your fingers. It is only composed of tendons connected to a certain muscle in the upper arm. The main responsibility of the muscles is to give the impulsion of movement. These tendons are strings that are pulled by the muscles.

Usually, people have their respective joints that are most flexible to their movements. In order to make them stronger, joints must transfer a strength all throughout the muscles. To achieve this, each joint must have a primary role to obtain a level of flexibility.

If all of the positionings are done improperly, then you must expect a painful feeling in your limb area that could develop to a certain illness called tendonitis. But, if you still push to continue your situation, the pain will also continue to your fingers and to your arm. This could lead to a condition called Carpal tunnel syndrome.

You have to be careful always, once the music you played requires you to shift, vibrate and a bend position. This could also be dangerous. There are many fiddlers that move their wrist slightly apart from the neck if they want to shift, vibrate and play extended fast notes. However, this also requires effort and time to obtain enough strength and flexibility skills. To achieve your goals, you have to discover some of your skills, especially in your performance.

To avoid chronic conditions, it is essential to learn some basics in the proper way to hold an instrument. Lost of syndromes can be suffered by a fiddler and may occur sooner or later. Thus, you should consider some important things in order to be aware of these illnesses.

Once you have learned all these conditions, it is important to enhance more you learning and skills in playing a violin. This way, you will obtain a certain level of awareness and confidence while performing. If you are knowledgeable enough with all the possibilities, you can also avoid chronic conditions that will be affect your life.




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