Getting comfortable with 7th position violin playing
If you've been working your way up the fingerboard, reaching the 7th position violin territory can feel a bit like stepping onto a different planet. Everything changes once you get past that "hump" where the neck meets the body of the instrument. Suddenly, the notes are closer together, the strings feel a bit tighter, and your thumb has to figure out a whole new way of living. It's a milestone, though. Once you start getting comfortable up there, you realize the violin has a lot more expressive range than just the dusty end of the fingerboard near the scroll. ...