i'm getting a crash course in how to play the violin here at pompeo fabra university in barcelona.t's called telme, which stands for technology—enhanced learning of musical instrument performance. the tiny finger is there to... using trackers on the violin and the bow, as well as an xbox connect, they can monitor how fast i'm playing and if i'm tilting the bow and the quality of contact with the strings. but first, a quick lesson. hey! plays off-key. hey! ok! so i've had my crash course in how to play the violin — or hold the violin — and the computer software over there is showing me whether my bow is perpendicular to the string. plays slightly screechy note. that's helping me keep the bow perfectly perpendicular and stay on that one string. so let's try another string. plays slightly screechy note. laughs. ok. beautiful music this is not, and i apologise. now, once you've mastered the movements, the system can also tell you whether you're playing nicely using artificial intelligence, so it's been trained what nice, smooth movements sound like and it's also been trained what bad p