

Like on the Gothic gavotte, which is in the Virtual Sheet Music library, by the way.Īt the very end of the piece, before you take the da capo, you've got pluck, pluck. The difference between the two is just, what kind of music are you playing and how much time do you have between the arco, which is the bowed notes, and the pizzicato? Because sometimes you simply don't have time to go from a bow-hold into that gun grip and then plant your thumb. This has a little bit less control but, with practice, you can also get fast at that method as well. This is what most beginners learn first, is to plant their thumb against the corner of the E string finger board. You see that? And then, when you turn your bow the right way, your thumb is available to put on the corner of the finger board and that stabilizes your hand and allows a very fast, very controlled pizzicato. Kind of like in these three fingers and then you can kind of make a gun shape.

'Kay? So that's one way.Īnother way is to hold your bow in a fist. So you hold your bow like you normally would but then you tilt it and then you've got your index finger available for pizzicato. It's fairly simple but there's a lot of things you can do with it and sometimes the notation is confusing to people, so we're just gonna give you a crash course on pizzicato. And I'd like to talk about pizzicato today because a lot of people have questions about pizzicato. I'm Laura with Red Desert Violin and I'm here today for.
