Suzuki's Tonalizations: How to reach a perfect intonation on the violin 

The other day my daughter and I were talking while my violin was lying on my desk in front of me ... and it started joining us in the conversation. I thought the f holes were echoing somehow so I played around with trying to get it to "talk" by directing my voice toward the holes, but that did not produce a consistent response. NOW I understand it was the pitches we were hitting while we spoke that made the violin reply. VERY COOL ! I can't wait to start experimenting with this! It will almost be like working with another musician ... and trying to coax them into singing along! So THIS is HOW some violinists sound like they are playing more than one violin at once! I'm SO excited knowing I can work towards the same! Thank you! :)

This is one of the most helpful intonation videos I have come across, thank you!

THANK YOU!! I have been so frustrated while working on my intonation lately. This makes so much sense, I will try it. ❤️

I really enjoyed this (and all) of your lessons. You present important information in a very accessible way, and your wonderful personality shines through on your videos. I really appreciate you!!

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hurray, finally an actual explanation! That's about 30 years people have been just assuming I knew what this exercise did as how to hear it. Now I know what I'm listening for.

Thanks so much dear Master Lora about your Intonization Tutorial🎻🎵🎶

I think this video desserves more likes, thanks for sharing the knowledge with us!

Wow, this is like a nugget of gold. Will practice this.

You are a great teacher and a kind human being . I do very much appreciate your effort and zeal in teaching us how to play and appreciate this fantastic Instrument . Thanks. K.paknoosh

Thank you for this video!

you totally love the violin , loved how you speak about the notes : )

awesome! I'm not learning violin but it was great! for the first time I could hear something well! thanks a lot

Outstanding explanation on shifting! I am having fun doing this. It’s hard, but I will practice hard! Thanks!

Thank you so much for the great explanation. What a great lesson.

Excellent..thanks a bunch...very,very good stuff.

Ah now I see what you mean with "ringyness" thanks so much, when I get home I'll start practising right away :D

I just started like a couple of days ago, thanks for this very important lifelong habit tip. Sympathetic resonances on violin would logically be more pronounced since you've got 50 cents on either side of the note to play around with and on fretted instruments, the usual would be to hit the fret and not think about cents.

'nanometres' love it!

OMG thank you. I always thought I do something wrong when I hear the other string. Like touching the other string too. Seems like I did everything right but as a total beginnerI am never confident.

One of the most helpful Violin tutorial videos I have ever seen. Thank you

Excellent!!!

Well, I don't play violins...& not really trying to (, though it would be awesome!) But I could tell that you are a very good teacher , indeed!

I love the sound. what violin are you playing? I am still on the lookout for the ideal violin. I have been looking at the cvn-700, but I don't like the finish. I like the sound and finish of yours though. I also like your video of picking the right chine rest in addition to this one.

Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge, i am grateful :)

wow I had been thinking that I could hear G D A E notes in a special way and I was trying to develop this "ringiness perception" for other notes as well :/ Now I understand why I have so much difficulty in hearing the right F F# C C# G# D# B Bb. By the way does anyone hear more ringing in A 337Hz (4th finger in E string) than A 440 Hz?

I prefer to play on a muted fiddle around the house. I suspect perhaps I might be at a disadvantage muted. What do you say.

Awesome stuff. Thanks!

Many thanks. Very helpful.

i appreciate you making these helpful videos... are you holding online classes too?

Great! This reinforces my thoughts that vibrato is OK for solo work, but in ensemble it detracts from the beauty of well tuned, consonant, chords.

I am an adult beginner. When I told my teacher about ringing he just couldn't understand that! Anyway I am getting some ringing and will try to get more.

Oh okay i get it now thank you so much!

can fretless instrument players adjust their intonation to different tuning temperaments? like when playing with other instruments

Very helpful tip.

This is awesome

in addition to hear the ringing, you can see the ringing as well~

I am a high level suzuki student, but now I just want to go back to book two and play some tonalization!

I've learned playing 🎻🎵🎶at age of 71's since CovidWuhan events, mostly on RU-vid tutorials 👌🎻🎵🎶

A very helpful video.

In my physics lab lesson on resonance (many years ago) we were seeing the ringing because a tiny paper piece was hooked to the string, and we could see it dancing whenever a resonance occured .

4:16 If that's a color of the same note she played at 3:45, it sounds maybe 30-40 cents flat to my ears?

Great thanks a lot.

Thank you.

I like this philosophy, as it involves notes on open strings. The other day a guy asked me, "You are using open string notes? How are you doing that without sounding off-key." So he's making open strings responsible for his playing off-key? Hadn't he carefully tuned his open strings, so it must be his fingers on the fingerboard to blame? And how can he change position before having adjusted and balanced his intonation on the first position, including open strings? The first time I heard about "changing position" I was scared. Then I watched my ancient music idols on RU-vid and compared them to classical violinists. The violin players in ancient music changed positions rarely, whereas classical players did it all the time. Frankly, ancient music violinist did it almost never-just stretching out now and then. Only in one case I saw somebody change position on the E string to go higher. To me there's only one position-possibly except for the E sting in a couple years. To me open strings have always been a must and a lazy A on the G string a no-go. I also consider sustained vibrato a pest: people gloss over their false notes with vibrato. If there was vibration on my notes I couldn't judge precisely whether my notes are correct. How does the fourth position sound without vibrato? Is it like Coke without bubbles? I read about musical directors suffering from open-E-phobia. Really? They hate the beauty of that silvery shining open E?

I stumbled upon this on my own (partially at least). I looked at the g string when playing a g on the d string, or something similar, and saw the vibrations. Instead of listening I just looked for the largest vibrations on the adjacent string. *not because I have bad aural skills

Can hear the A very easily, but I think either my tablet or the recording doesn’t come across as well.

thank u so much

How come I cannot hear the ringing on my violin? But I can definitely hear it in your video... :(

Appreciation and aplods

how is this effect called?

Why you don't respond yourself but want asking people to ask the experts? What are you then?!

"Hideous" LMAO!! (but it is) BTW, playing the violin... wait "Learning" to play the violin is HIDEOUS! The Violin was mis-named. "Monsterin"

4:16 that's pretty far out-of-tune. Definitely way more than four cents

cool, my teacher never told me this

sympathetic vibration of g string

After your wonderful demo, then DOUBLE STOPS, SPECIFICALLY OCTAVES. Simple double stops develop and set hand framing and muscle memory. For example, first finger on a upper string played with the open string below is never exactly in the same place as a first finger on a lower string and played with the open upper string. Octave double stops starting in 3rd position is the correct way to begin playing in tune. Also, the use of a highly sensitive and highly calibrated tuner will help you; although it can produce, at times, frustration since the mere pressure of the bow and a minimal slight pressure difference in a finger will wildly register on a tuner. Why do I say simple double stops? Think! How can you set your hand AND play single notes of a scale in tune when the muscles of the hand AND your ears have not been trained. Finally, absolutely NO VIBRATO EVER and no bow pressure except the weight of the bow! Think of making a sound on a crystal glass half filled with water and your wet finger. Its all the same process - exact speed, exact slight pressure with no hesitations. So it is with a bowed string instrument. I am a 63 year old professional concert level violist, violinist, choirmaster, organist, teacher and composer. I have taught hundreds of children K-12, adults and have studied with some of the greatest teachers and performers around the world. Practice everything with a metronome in extremely slow speed as if you were a Tai-Chi Master or pantomimist. Extremely slow, even, soft practice males perfect. Tackle little amounts! Scales are for the accuracy of agility, speed and dexterity. More complex scales in double stops come after simple double stops. Then finally scales and etudes. ALL AT FIRST WITH NO VIBRATO! Make a beautiful clarinet sound with no vibrator at first, then add carefully practiced vibrato.

its not ringing because your finger geometry is deliberately distorted

Wait... a nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter.

音を完全に外してる。。。

In Moscow, they would laugh at such a technique! I am able for a month and a half to teach the student twelve positions. And no shameful lines on the fretboard. The hearing must be developed! Normal hearing distinguishes two cents.

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Thank you this is awesome

Thank you.