Strings of Melody_2

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Today being my second day, Mr. Shirish showed me the different parts of the violin, and told me how they were handled and managed. The posture in which Indian classical violinists play the violin is quite different from the western one. Since I selected the classical course I had to sit cross-legged and rest the scroll of the violin on my right ankle. He said that is position was important for classical music because it involves a lot of string moment. So I sat down and he started with the Sargam. He taught me how simple pressing the first two strings from right, at different places in a specific order produced the melodious 7 notes: saa re ga ma pa dha ni .  He told me that violin was also the most difficult of all string instruments because there was no marked position for a particular note, one had to get used to listening the notes while one played it and initially adjust the fingers according to the correct note. It was very difficult. What added to the difficulty was that I had to concentrate on the finger board and the bow at the same time. It was tricky but I managed to do it after sometime. Today is was all about this, the rest was practice, practice and practice.