The Importance Of A Proper Violin Wrist Position

By Sharron Cantu


Playing a violin provides various benefits to everyone. When you learn to play a string instrument, your fingers and arms also learn new physical skills. Although, it is quite hard for most beginners, but with hard work and practice, it will expand your horizons beyond violin. To get started, it is important to consider the right violin wrist position. Keep in mind that no matter what your age is, your ability and love for music is more important.

Learning the proper positioning of your hand is sometimes tricky for a beginner. This kind of position is sometimes awkward, since all of us are not familiar with it. Once you are a beginner, you seem to clench the neck of the violin. This way, it can create a great tension to your hand. However, this is also the start to learn some of your skills in playing music. You only have to be patient in all throughout your learning process.

Every violinist maintains a proper left hand positioning that will result to a better sound, agility, intonation and gives an accurate performance. In achieving this posture, the wrist should hang down straight from the instrument and arm and hand must be smooth and should create a continuous curved line.

To obtain greater understanding about the reasons why you should consider the right way of playing string instruments, you have to learn first the biology of your hand and needs of a great performer in music. Basically, there are no certain muscles in the fingers. It only consists tendons that connects to the upper arm muscles. The task of these muscles is to provide a force to the movements. Most of the tendons are strings that are usually pulled by each muscle.

Normally, we have joints that are flexible to the movements. To strengthen the muscles of the fingers, the joints must permit messages in transferring a certain strength through them. Thus, in order to accomplish this, the joints should leave the primary role of its flexibility.

Once you have done improper positioning, it could lead to a painful and swelling in the limb area and develop to tendonitis. If you continue to push this condition, the pain will continue to the fingers and to the arms. This reason, you will get a condition called Carpal tunnel syndrome and you will live a sensible life.

If a certain art music needs you to make shifting and vibrato, you have to be cautious in bending movements. There are violinists who tend to move their wrist slowly away from the neck when playing. If they need to move faster, for a fast note, then they also need to move according the tone. To achieve a certain goal, you also have to discover something about you when it comes to performing.

In order to avoid all possible problems, it is important to learn the proper way of holding your instrument. Since, there are lots of developmental syndromes that may occur in the long run. Always remember that the harder you play, the higher your risk. Since, these chronic conditions are common to most string players, then you should avoid having one.

Once you already know all the awareness and possibilities that may happen to you, you will also obtain a perfect performance. This will be able to enhance more your skills learned and to develop more music without worrying that something might happen to you.




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