Basic Violin Techniques - Violin techniques - Harmonics with left hand

Keep fingers rounded when playing violin harmonics. Learn about creating harmonics with the left hand in the Ivan Galamian violin teaching method in this fre...

So another thing in terms of the Galamian violin technique is with your harmonics. In some schools you learned that when playing a harmonic it really should be, your fingers should be more kind of flat or maybe slightly more rounded, but really you're looking at just the Galamian technique you do find that a lot of the time he wants you to stretch your fourth finger so it's taught in a way that your fourth finger is supposed to be more straight. I think this makes a lot of sense, especially when you are just reaching up to play that harmonic. By having your finger rounded you still get the sound out, but I think you actually get more of a ringing sound the other way. And then of course letting your other fingers kind of float above it, not letting them interfere at all. So when you're playing your harmonic, you know he really stressed the importance of keeping your fingers up in the air like that.