Essays On Music & Learning Fiddle/Violin

Essays On Music & Learning Fiddle/Violin

Learning Fiddle/Violin

#5 Practice with Me!

Stretches, warmups, improv

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Ed Pearlman
Feb 18, 2026
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Today, in the video below, we start with some physical stretches. These are ideas you can try at any time during practice. They counteract some of the hunching that often results from focused practice.

You'll find a bit more discussion of these ideas in an earlier article here about staying strong and healthy as a musician.

Then there's are some warmups, new ideas for the fingers, the 2d most common scale pattern and tried creating a new tune to experience the elements of improv and the structure of most tunes — see my article All Music Is Improv.

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