FINGERING FOR THE BEGINNING VIOLINIST

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