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My name is Tobiah Murphy, and I am a professional violinist and pedagogue. Any one can learn to play the violin, and play it well!
But, a lot of folks are unnecessarily confused about violin technique, and a lot of violin teachers don't help.
This channel aims to give those without access to serious violin teaching digestible, but detailed breakdowns of violin technique. All for free!
For more personal instruction, you can schedule a live or Skype lesson with me.
Email at admin@murphymusicacademy.org, or fill out the form at murphymusicacademy.org
But, a lot of folks are unnecessarily confused about violin technique, and a lot of violin teachers don't help.
This channel aims to give those without access to serious violin teaching digestible, but detailed breakdowns of violin technique. All for free!
For more personal instruction, you can schedule a live or Skype lesson with me.
Email at admin@murphymusicacademy.org, or fill out the form at murphymusicacademy.org
3 Reasons Professional Violinists Have Better Vibrato
For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org.
While learning the basics of violin vibrato can be made simple and easy, a professional level violin vibrato is something that will take a greater amount of care and practice.
But you can learn it! All you need it to understand how to develop Control, Consistency, and a lack of tension in your vibrato motion, and you'll be well on your way to producing the violin vibrato of great violinists.
I'm Tobiah Murphy and THIS is Murphy Music Academy
0:00 - The "Soul" of the Tone
1:16 - Control
3:56 - Consistency
8:00 - Lack of Tension
While learning the basics of violin vibrato can be made simple and easy, a professional level violin vibrato is something that will take a greater amount of care and practice.
But you can learn it! All you need it to understand how to develop Control, Consistency, and a lack of tension in your vibrato motion, and you'll be well on your way to producing the violin vibrato of great violinists.
I'm Tobiah Murphy and THIS is Murphy Music Academy
0:00 - The "Soul" of the Tone
1:16 - Control
3:56 - Consistency
8:00 - Lack of Tension
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How Pro Violinists Learn Music Faster Than You
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For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org. No matter how long you've been playing the violin, we all want the ability to learn music faster. And while you probably won't be able to learn the Sibelius Violin Concerto in an hour, if you understand the importance of HAND SHAPES, you will learn music faster than you ever could ha...
The Best Violinists You've Never Heard Of (Part 2)
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Part 1 in this series: ua-cam.com/video/WKM_aSuFWik/v-deo.html For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org. While it's certainly true that the most famous violinists you know deserve their fame and success, it's also true that many very deserving violinists slip through the cracks and into obscurity. Hopefully I can fix that by...
The Surprising Secret to Mastering Violin Spiccato
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For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org. 0:00 - intro 0:37- why is spiccato so difficult? 2:11 - learning the bow's natural bounce 5:17 - learning the correct arm motions 8:08 - BONUS: sautille Among the advanced bow strokes, the bouncing bow strokes, like spiccato and sautille, can often prove to be the most difficult. But...
The Best Violinists You've Never Heard Of (part 1)
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For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org. While it's certainly true that the most famous violinists you know deserve their fame and success, it's also true that many very deserving violinists slip through the cracks and into obscurity. Hopefully I can fix that by introducing you to some of the best violinists you've never he...
Pro Violin Teacher reacts to Karolina Protsenko | Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
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For those interested in Skype (or your favored video chat platform) lessons, email admin@murphymusicacademy.org. In this video I react to @karolinaprotsenkovlog726 ’s recent performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (original video: ua-cam.com/video/ApZeGkcuCBA/v-deo.htmlsi=wqdycoulECRhjROI) showing what I liked and loved about her performance, and also what I thought would make it better....
The Most Important Advice (All Music Students Ignore)
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The Most Important Advice (All Music Students Ignore)
The Difference Between Violin and Viola Technique | Murphy Music Academy Livestream
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The Difference Between Violin and Viola Technique | Murphy Music Academy Livestream
Learn Up-Bow Staccato in 1 Exercise
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Learn Up-Bow Staccato in 1 Exercise
How Pro Violinists Make it Look Easy
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How Pro Violinists Make it Look Easy
How NOT to play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
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How NOT to play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Why Violin Pros Have Great Tone . . . and you don’t
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Why Violin Pros Have Great Tone . . . and you don’t
5 Realizations That Will Make You a Better Musician
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5 Realizations That Will Make You a Better Musician
Why Your Piano Teacher is Wrong About Curved Fingers
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Why Your Piano Teacher is Wrong About Curved Fingers
5 Ways to Fix Your Violin 4th Finger
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5 Ways to Fix Your Violin 4th Finger
5 Dumb Mistakes Hurting Your Violin Progress
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5 Dumb Mistakes Hurting Your Violin Progress
Improving Your Bow Technique Using Only Your Mind
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Improving Your Bow Technique Using Only Your Mind
The Secret to Bow Control at the Frog
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The Secret to Bow Control at the Frog
5 Rules for Successful Violin Practicing
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5 Rules for Successful Violin Practicing
Why You're Struggling in Violin (it isn't what you think)
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Why You're Struggling in Violin (it isn't what you think)
3 Steps to a Perfect Violin Bow Hold: The Bow Hold Gauntlet
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3 Steps to a Perfect Violin Bow Hold: The Bow Hold Gauntlet
Fix Your Left Hand Violin Technique in 1 Minute
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Fix Your Left Hand Violin Technique in 1 Minute
The 5 Fundamental Rules of Violin Bowing Technique
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The 5 Fundamental Rules of Violin Bowing Technique
5 Practice "Hacks" To Improve Your Violin Playing
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5 Practice "Hacks" To Improve Your Violin Playing
5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Left-Hand Violin Technique (but should)
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5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Left-Hand Violin Technique (but should)
How much does this instrument (violin) cost?
I'm practicing my next piece this way. It should be fun.
Thanks for the lesson, ill pass it on to my students! Maria, Inverell NSW AU
All of your explanations that use terms like pronation, leverage, balance etc. (biomechanics, functional mobility?) are super helpful for me!! Really appreciate your insight. Thanks a lot
Oistrakh is my favorite, I think Heifetznis a better musician but I don't like his recordings because he plays too fast to enjoy, I even heard somewhere that he heard some of his performances and said he played too fast.
Wow
Taiwan Yang is now Professor at the Musikhochschule Würzburg
It's the "high note face"
I am 76 and practice about 2 hours every day. There is no way of becoming a performing artist. Recently I practiced too much and landed with impingement syndrome of the bowing arm shoulder. Just completed 5 days of physio with Ultrasound therapy. Unfortunately there is no "knowledgeable " tutor. Besides I can't afford even a professional player. I am much better and after 10 days of rest hope to start again.
of all your videos - i just like the sound produced by your high quality violin - kindly on estimate how much is it worth or if i needed an instrument with that soynd quality - what coukd be its budget
Hello! My violin is probably in the $20K range at this point. It was made in 2013 by Bronek Cison in Chicago, and at that time the list price was $14K. I actually got a really good deal on it because my teacher at the time is personal friends with the dealer, and so I paid $12K. If you are looking to get a good instrument and don't have a lot of money, Bronek's instruments are the best for their price. I don't know why he sells them so low. I've met a few other professionals who use his instruments and I don't think you can find instruments that good for even 10 grand more.
@@MurphyMusicAcademy that's really a lot of Money Ksh. 2 Million in kenyan shillings
@@osamaathman229 I'd never say it isn't a lot of money, but unfortunately in terms of what high quality violins cost it is on the low end. However, you can learn to play very well without having a great instrument!
This is really interesting if there are more expensive instruments than $20k
OK, criticism is valid. A quick comparison brings out that she has room for improvement. Try listening to other violinists.
Hilary Hahn, Ray Chen
SoHyun Ko, 12 is playing better, not to pick on her. However, in this tough world of virtuosos, longevity requires perfection.
I don't know if proficient violinists have trained the muscles well enough to be able to form the shapes even when the hand is just free in the air
The entire shape is not necessarily formed in the air, but the fingers and hand are ready to take the full shape once the fingers hit the strings. For instance, when I shift, if the following 2 notes are whole steps, then I won't keep my fingers together during the shift, so that the moment I hit the note I'm shifting to, my muscle memory is able to easily "snap" the fingers into their respective positions. Hand shapes are not necessarily something you are trying to find "in the air" (though there is an aspect of that in this), but more about the muscle memory the hand has when in contact with the violin in a particular position and group of notes
As a student I find the challenge actually preparing the hand frame because that is a challenge in itself. Even if my left hand is in the air I find it an effort to move say the second finger to be near either the 1st or 3rd finger.
Am I the only one noticing the pattern that most people who advocate for no shoulder rest ... have no neck? lol
A wise professor once told me "Vibrato is the life of the music and lack of it makes the music dead."
I don't have a violin teacher and I mastered vibrato and I never knew that this high thumb position I'm using is actually not commonly used lmaoooo
Speaking as an amateur pianist ... God, violin is so hard!
Speaking as a professional violinist, ‘Piano (music) is so hard, pianists are better musicians!’
@@pengnian898 In so far as you are a professional violinist, it ought to be completely obvious to you that violin is much harder than piano.
Thanks
Bro I just to learn how Hilary Hahn's vibrato is so good at the end of the fingerboard 😭
Nice video. Now im a folk musician, and vibrato is rarely if ever used in that genre. However i always wanted to learn to vibrate tones since done correct it does add a lot to a musical piece. But im quite certain i am too stiff in my hand wrist to do a vibrato. I have watched your instructional videos, but i just dont have the motion/range and relaxation in my hand/forearm.
Those comments are exactly my music and my problem.
Can someone post the names of the pieces that these violinists are playing?
Am I the only one that thinks the opening Murphy Music Academy video is slightly out of tune?
Probably
No, you’re not. I commented on it in another video about a year ago. I think he has re-recorded it since then, and the uppermost octave sounds better. But the middle section to me still sounds a bit out of tune. Since harmonics comprise such a large portion of each note’s tone quality, being even the tiniest bit off can deaden the overall tone of a passage. I’ve been a teacher for many years. I don’t have perfect intonation myself all of the time, but I can recognize it & teach it. It is a never ending quest for some of us, sadly.
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I noticed that too
How do u do arm vibrato and why use it?
Re: tension How many pro violinists have low body fat and do 100 pullup exercises a day so that the holding up of the arms is effortless? Is there even 1 pro violinist who has high body fat?
David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Mark Peskanov, Itzhak Perlman, Eugene Ysaye, and Josef Gingold were all pretty fat. As for today's violinists, the image is as much as the package as your playing, so a lot of them do try to look good, but while violinists should exercise, being physically fit has little to do with your playing abilities
Each string of the violin must have a different width and oscillation of vibrato according to its natural frequency...
Will you do a video on how you go about memorizing music? Performing from memory is probably my greatest music related fear and there doesn’t seem to be much helpful information about the topic from violinists online.
I think you’re referring to leopold auers book violin playing as I teach it, he said it is tasteless to use vibrato all the time and it makes the food bland in his vibrato/ left hand portion of the book.
It's been a while since I read his book and I don't remember that bit, but that is interesting considering Auer played with fairly constant vibrato and his two most prominent students (Elman and Heifetz) had some of the most constant and intense vibratos. In Flesch's book, as well, he comments on the change that happened in his lifetime of using vibrato sparingly to constant use. He didn't have a strong opinion on it, but wondered whether or not it might have something to do with being in a more "decadent" age
here's my three reasons left fingers left hand left arm xd
Well. . .you're not wrong!
Vibrato is the seasoning.👌
Vibrato is only like seasoning in that the whole violin world is used to it so that's what you are used to. It's like American food with extra sugar, where American's now have to have sugar in everything that becomes their default taste. Isabelle Faust sounds so much better and purer than the soupy and/or spasmodic sound that the violin world is used to.
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Game changer
Jelly d’Aranyi recalled Joseph Joachim's advice, “Never too much vibrato! That’s circus music.”
The shift was interesting. We have recordings of Joachim and Sarasate, though they were both quite old at the time. Vibrato is very present, though not as much as today. Ysaye was the first "modern" violinist in this regard, where vibrato became much a part of the personality of the violinist. This was solidified with Kreisler, and then Elman, using their unique, throbbing vibrato constantly. They had such a big impact that, since then, violinists have mostly used vibrato in this way, with a few exceptions
I get pumped up when a new video comes out! (viola)
cant wait to see you today
more sunscreen! :D
Brilliant Tobiah! Thank you so much. G Ire (adult student)
being a "jazz" violinist it's a relief to have the option to vibrate how I want (hahaha), however I am always striving to develop a more classical vibrato, ...and while knowing all the most common exercises, I love all these kinds of "little" tips to integrate and work on. Btw, my vibrato suffers the most when playing in front of a listening room as opposed to background, cocktail style performances. The nervousness does weird things to my vibrating muscles, even though I don't suffer from 'shaky' bow as much anymore. The development of control that you mention is really the key for me, so that no matter the circumstances, my muscles will obey my command and do what they are able to do in the practice room but in front of an attentive audience, thank you for this!
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Well done for all this intensive practice!
Thank you ❤ my vibrato is also wide and slow, i should learn wrist vibrato 😝 Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
I approve of this (entire) message.
One can possibly become a great violinist with a concert career even starting at a later age. It all depends on approach and what your goals are
Down beattone following. Thats it.
You deserve way more subs man. Your videos have not only improved my technique but they have also taught me how think better as a person in general
Thank you. Sometimes I saw exercises but knowing which muscle should be the focus is easier.
In my case I do what I like to call ghost practice. By this I mean that sometimes when I'm not practicing, I read the sheet music deciding the positions I'm going to use and move the fingers as I'm playing it at that moment. Personally this makes me learn quicker since at the actual practice I0m not doubting at every note
Love this, thank you. Also - looks you've been out in the sun and working out buddy!
I think this might be the single most important video on youtube that relates to violin technique and should act as the foundation upon which anyone learns to play the violin. You thoroughly and clearly explain the relationship between the violin, the left hand, and the shoulder and how it applies to every aspect of violin playing. I was struggling with a lot of tension in my playing and felt like I was hitting a wall when it came to improving my technique. This video really got to the root of what was holding me back, and ever since I started applying these principles to my playing, my intonation, resonance, and just about every aspect of my technique improved drastically. I used to think that playing without a shoulder rest was a type of witchcraft that only a select few people could do and now I can play without a shoulder rest as easily and naturally as I used to play with one.
Thanks that's easy
he kinda looks like mark zuckerberg