Scales and arpeggios develop agility and an understanding of the geography of the instrument. Playing them precisely requires plenty of repetition which can be one of the most tedious aspects of learning to play the violin.
Since scales can be a lot more interesting to practice with something other than a metronome, these backing tracks were designed to make practising scales more fun.
The videos include sheet music with fingering suggestions and a moving cursor for easier identification of areas that may need to be repeated. The scale “patterns,” which start with half-notes (minims) separate bows, and gradually become faster, with quarter-note (crotchets), 2 notes slurred in one bow, followed by eighth-notes (quavers), 4 notes slurred, etc, is inspired by A. Grigorian’s scale system and the scale-learning traditions in Eastern Europe.
Here is the scale pattern used in the video:
Here is the video of G (Sol) Major Scale for Violin, 3 octaves:
Enjoy! Have fun practising 🙂
Wow. Such a lifesaver. I have my scale exam in about three days and I haven’t even taken my violin out of my case for three months. I think I might pass the exam. Keep up the good work, Strummi!
Hi! Thanks for your comment. Glad it helps. Good luck with the scale exam!
Do not take this as a spam comment (I get all sorts of comments like these on my website).
Hey! Your video does not seem to work (the second one).
So, under the title “C (Do) Major Scale for Violin, 2 Octaves:” it should show a video, but it does not. It says “Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner”
Hi! Thanks so much for your comment and for noticing this. I have now enabled the video on the website 🙂