You need to build up the muscles you need to push down the strings. Keep a clothes-peg in your pocket, and in idle moments do this exercise. Do everything as slowly as you can manage to educate brain and muscles. If it hurts, stop and try again the next day.
First finger
Take the open ends of the …
By: LDW
You need to build up the muscles you need to push down the strings. Keep a clothes-peg in your pocket, and in idle moments do this exercise. Do everything as slowly as you can manage to educate brain and muscles. If it hurts, stop and try again the next day.
First finger
Take the open ends of the …
By: LDW
Just as taxi-drivers have a bump in their brain for finding their way, violinists’ brains are supersensitised to the positions of their left hands. These exercises, performed every day, will help the brain to become more aware of the left hand fingers, as well as building up necessary muscles.
You …
By: LDW
Just as taxi-drivers have a bump in their brain for finding their way, violinists’ brains are supersensitised to the positions of their left hands. These exercises, performed every day, will help the brain to become more aware of the left hand fingers, as well as building up necessary muscles.
You …
By: LDW
Fingernails
Sorry, ladies: those elegant left hand nails will have to go.
Fingers on tips please
The fingers of the left hand should stand on their tips (that is why the nails must be short).
Thumb and first finger work together
The thumb and first finger should work together as a unit (except…
By: LDW
Fingernails
Sorry, ladies: those elegant left hand nails will have to go.
Fingers on tips please
The fingers of the left hand should stand on their tips (that is why the nails must be short).
Thumb and first finger work together
The thumb and first finger should work together as a unit (except…
By: LDW
This was just a lark that had been itching in the back of my head for a while. It’s a mains powered LED lightbulb.
Supplies
There’s not too many things you need for this project.
An incandescent light bulb.
A .47 microfarad 200V capacitor.
1/4 watt 1kilo ohm resistor
a pair of leds
and miscellane…
This was just a lark that had been itching in the back of my head for a while. It’s a mains powered LED lightbulb.
Supplies
There’s not too many things you need for this project.
An incandescent light bulb.
A .47 microfarad 200V capacitor.
1/4 watt 1kilo ohm resistor
a pair of leds
and miscellane…
I made this iPod case (for an iPod Touch) out of old bike inner tubes and swatches of ultrasuede that I had laying around. I also added a little loop for my retractable headphones to hook into. "Quilting" the two materials together created a fairly workable material that was rubberized on …
By: nagutron
I made this iPod case (for an iPod Touch) out of old bike inner tubes and swatches of ultrasuede that I had laying around. I also added a little loop for my retractable headphones to hook into. "Quilting" the two materials together created a fairly workable material that was rubberized on …
By: nagutron
