How To Really Hold A Violin Bow - Paganini’s Greatest Secret

This short introductory clip was taken from a longer video that is linked to below.

How To Really Hold A Violin Bow / Paganini's Greatest Secret

https://youtu.be/5Pk66NVkmqw?t=115

other videos on his channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/kevinleeluthier/videos

Paganini - The complete quartets for strings and guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2sBPVv_Vy4&list=PLgN2O34fDvjt5_QWa8Z8wYJG4rsVUuwHw

Here is a link to a YouTube search for Paganini Documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Paganini+Documentary

One important take-away from watching these videos, is to note how Paganini stood, his stance. There are only sketches of him playing, but every sketch shows his legs in this weird signature stance.

I can say that after I started standing this way, my playing improved dramatically. I think the key to this stance, is to pretend you have a tennis ball under your heel, and that you are gently squeezing and un-squeezing the tennis ball with your heel, along with the music.

The difference between this foot-work technique, and say, that of Angus Young of AC/DC, is that Paganini's legs and feet move slowly, gently, methodically, more analog...

Whereas Angus' foot-work seems more binary, jerky, and jarring, where he slams his foot into the ground hard, but in between each foot-stomps is legs and feet are more out-of-control.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=AC%2FDC+live