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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Practice Violin Lessons Without The Actual Violin Instrument

By Greg Hayward

An important piece of learning how to play the violin is practicing the physical part. Just as important is the mental part, the inner game, because it is in the brain where our main control center is located. This control center is the source of our practiced habits and for this reason you should practice playing without using the actual violin.

Our human brains have the awesome ability to recreate past excellence. We can imagine ourselves playing the violin in an excellent fashion. What we are doing here is training our control center in our brain to trigger the action mechanisms to play what we have visualized. It has been said that imagination is more powerful than willpower. When we play the violin without the actual instrument we are creating a mind to muscle association, known as muscle memory. This is one of the secrets of the pros.

By practicing this way, you not only become proficient in learning the technical elements of the violin, you also become more aligned with becoming a master violinist. You can probably just realize how powerful it is to imagine yourself playing every single note with complete accuracy because you have to use the visual parts of your mind, the auditory parts of your mind and the kinesthetic parts of the mind. This is one of the processes that master violin players use because they internalize the playing of a piece of music and become better, learn more, become better, learn more. It is a perpetual cycle.

If you are able to play through a musical piece in your mind , in tempo and with no falls back or faltering, you can confidently pronounce that the work is totally and firmly learned. Otherwise the weak parts will surface and you will find a predictable breakdown in recall at the vital moments. After a while you will discover that, mentally, you can go through music pieces well without music. When you perform the violin, you'll soon do it without a hitch.

Internal practice provides a path to work from when you are not feeling the best or are unwell. You will find on your travels that you will have to practice mentally because you are not allowed to play the violin on airplanes and it can be awkward to practice the violin in certain situations. To imaginarily hear the music in your internal ear is vital to mental rehearsing. All great violin musicians have developed the internal hearing ability and you should consider it a very important component to mastering violin.

The human body is built in a magnificent way that allows you to play music at a high level. For this reason your own body is just as significant as the violin instrument. You are the most important element when it comes to playing the violin. As you are the most vital aspect when it comes to playing violin, you should make sure that you are in peak condition physically, mentally and emotionally.

Taking the right food, getting proper sleep and rest and quality exercise is important. In terms of emotions, great violin players say a natural sense of wellbeing is very important to playing the violin well. Preparation before a violin performance is a very good idea. A simple preparation might be to close the eyelids and inhale deeply and exhale slowly. By doing this several times you will calm your mind. Begin to send this state of mental relaxation down into the rest of your body feeling wonderfully relaxed. You will find you will be in a clear fresh and alert state to practice the violin.

To learn the violin with skill and competency, you must first know the basic fundamentals and concepts. From there you then must be able to practically be able to apply the basic principles and techniques that you learn. As you start begin to learn violin you need to pay close attention to the techniques and skills which you will learn when beginning the violin. This is required because if you keep on repeating the same bad habits, they may be very hard to unlearn. You then may find yourself learning the violin without any real skill and may not reach a very good level. It's vital that your practice the correct habits over and over again. This is the true path to violin playing success. - 18418

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