Putting the fingers down should be simple right?

I think I gotta spend more time on simplifying my left hand.

MY RIGHT HAND / ARM SEEMS FINE.

I am struggling with putting my fingers down a relaxed and regular fashion. My techique could be improved on but it isn't completely out of order.

I think I need to spend more on the following 2 thought processes.
- Give the brain enough time to organise the melody.
- Give the brain enough time to put the finger down before the sound is required.

All this comes naturally on a new instrument. When I play the guitar this thought process happens automatically. I enjoy the melody of the guitar. WIth the violin I don't enjoy the melody. Withe the violin I am confused by it's unpredictable temporarment. The violin catches me off guard.

The violin is not a difficult instrument. Perhaps it requires more patience.

Like all forms of art, playing any musical instrument should be effortless. The challenge should be in the purpose and expression.

A simple question: why is it that my fingers sometimes go down in the wrong place and I don't rememdy that even though I KNOW THEY ARE IN THE WRONG PLACE. Why is it that I am caught off guard by my body. Very strange.

I am trying to play rather than enjoying the music.

Oh. so the final point was.

I NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME ASSOCIATING MY LEFT HAND ACTIVITY WITH THE QUINTICENTIAL TRAITS OF THE GVEN MELODY. RATHER THAN CONSTRUCTING FORMS AND ALGORITHMS that will help me comprehend what is required. The music is not mathematical. The music is a physical creation. A simple physical creation.

The processes of placing a finger on a string over the finger board should remain easy. A process to build on.

It's as though I can't draw a distrinction between the left hand fingers and the melody. Perhaps I need to some how enable the mind to associate the sound / intonation with the finger rather than create a recognisable phsyical formation. To feel the melody. To enjoy the melody. To play slower and hear what the violin actually offers. To enjoy the melody. to enjoy the melody. To enjoy the melody.

Somehow this is much easier on a new instrument. If I were to pick up a sitar and strum it I would be captured by its sound. With the violin I do the reverse and try my hardest to capture the sound.


************ I need to spend more time listening to the sound of the violin and less time reading music.

************ I need to spend more time listening to the sound of the violin and less time studying physical technique.

There is a beauty to the sound of the violin, a key to all technique however simple, that should be maintained at all times.