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Author: FT
Date: 2001-12-31 18:47
where can I find a fingering chart for violin????? ( I'm sorry this has nothing to do with clarinets, But this site's great!!!!)I don't play the violin, I'm just curious!
Thanks!!!!!!!
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-12-31 19:48
Fingerings for violin are very versatile, so I'm not sure where you could find a definite fingering chart.
BUT, knowing what pitch the strings are normally helps.
Lowest string- G below middle C
They go up in fifths from there, the D above that, the A above the D, and the E above the A.
JOOC why do you ask?
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-12-31 20:40
Violin fingering is very complicated. There are an infinite number of different ways to finger any given piece. Beginners start in "1st position," where the hand is nearest to the scroll. To play a D major scale in 1st position, you start by playing an open (no fingers) D on the D string, then add your 1st finger a whole step above the nut (the end of the strings) to play an E, then the second finger a whole step above that for an F#, then the third finger a half step above (the half step between the 3rd and 4th scale degrees) for a G and then switch to the A string for an open A and so on. Don't worry about higher positions, that's where it gets complicated. 
It's a lot easier to explain while holding a violin or viola- find a string-equipped friend. Or try looking in the front of a beginning method such as All for Strings.
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Author: Pam
Date: 2001-12-31 22:06
The Carl Fischer company has a pocket size manual of fingering charts that includes all woodwind and brass instruments, Position charts for string instruments, drum rudiments, transposition charts and Instrumental ranges. I have found it helpful in learning the flute myself. It only costs about $5. I had a local music store order it for me.
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Author: FT
Date: 2002-01-01 01:44
what I meant was, where can I find a SITE with the fingering chart for the violin!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-01 01:48
I don't think there is any; a violin's not like a guitar - you have to "know" where to put your fingers, and of course it's a non-linear fingering.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2002-01-01 15:46
That appears to be a scan of the chart inside my first violin method. The positions aren't explained very well there, though. Basically, if you're playing a D major scale as I explained above, you're in first position. If you move your hand further up the neck and put your first finger where your second finger was before, you're in second position. If you put your first finger where your third finger was in first position, you're in third position. Now, if you put your first finger one spot above where your fourth finger was in first position (where your fifth finger would have been if you had one), you're in fifth position...and so on, going up as high as necessary. Higher positions are needed to play higher notes (duh) and also to make phrases easier to play (it's hard to switch between two strings a lot very quickly, it's much easier to move your fingers) and to play higher notes on the lower strings, which gives a special kind of sound (listen to the cadenza in Ravel's Tzigane, a bit in the beginning of the Sibelius Violin Concerto or a lot of the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 for good examples of this).
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Author: FT
Date: 2002-01-01 21:22
This is A LOT harder than I thought it was!!!!
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-09 02:38
Mark is very correct on this (I'm a pro viola player). I studied viola with the late Nanny Jamison, London's Guildhall School. She had a very "strange" way of fingering scales (violin and viola) where by we "changed position" only at the semitone. It took a while to get used to, but made a lot of sense and has been my preferred modus-operandi for viola playing since.
I also was principal viola with an Australian Orchsetra - and I never suggested fingerings to the section, you'd just get a "get on with it" look from your colleagues.
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