PREPARATION FOR LEFT HAND
PLACING FINGERS DOWN
IN THE DO-RE-MI PATTERN
HOT CROSS BUNS ON EACH STRING WITH
FINGER NUMBERS and LETTER NAMES
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (MARY)
ON EACH STRING WITH
FINGER NUMBERS and LETTER NAMES
FINGERING ON THE VIOLIN BASED ON BASIC PATTERNS OF
WHOLE STEPS (fingers apart)
and
HALF STEPS (fingers touching-feeling the skin of consecutive fingers)
FIRST POSITION ONE OCTAVE MAJOR SCALES ON THE VIOLIN ARE COMBINATIONS OF THE SAME FINGER PATTERN REPEATED TWICE ON TWO CONSECUTIVE (NEIGHBORING) STRINGS
FIRST POSITION TWO OCTAVE MAJOR SCALES ON THE VIOLIN ARE COMBINATIONS OF TWO FINGER PATTERNS ON CONSECUTIVE (NEIGHBORING) STRINGS
THESE PATTERNS (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONE USING OPEN STRINGS) CAN BE USED IN OTHER POSITIONS AS WELL
VIOLIN FINGERING LOCATED ON THE KEYBOARD