Why don’t I put two versions of the fingerings in?
1) I do in some places, though that can cause confusion, too, as kids try to figure out *why* there’s two versions
2) Time crunch. It’s the start of the school year & I have other responsibilities. It’s most important to get the “starter” fingerings in. The more experience players will sometimes figure out a better way on their own, or we figure it out in their lesson.
Me to student: Ok, if you don’t fix your bowhold by next week, I’m gonna give you nothing but bow exercises at your next lesson
Student: Oh, it’s that serious?
Me: Yes. Here, let me write in your notebook
Student, looking over my shoulder as I write: That color of ink isn’t scary at all
Me, to student: What tempo were you setting the metronome to for this section?
Student: um, you know, just vibes
Me: Can you put a number to those vibes? Like, how fast or slow are those vibes oscillating?
Shout out to the student who thoroughly yet accidentally flipped me the bird during their lesson this week. Thank you, that was the hardest I’ve laughed in a very long time.
(They were gesturing while talking and trying to explain a violin fingering that starts with the middle finger.)
The #ViolinTeacher cringes…
[while I haven’t watched the whole series, what I saw of it actually was well done, and far more realistic and honest than most depictions of music and violin technique than 99% of everything else]
Sweet Music Studio
Frank G. Caruso
Violinknitter
David Mitchell 
K& M Music School