It's like trying to do this: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/390682/i_dare_you_to_succeed_try_and_lift_your_ring_finger_like_this/ - N
That video shows something you could only do if some tendons were severed, or stretched a fair bit. I could get my ring finger about 2mm off the desk with my thumb & 1st spread, my 2nd with the 1st 'knuckle' flat on the desktop, but not with the 2nd, like it shows; physically impossible. I can move all my fingers (on each hand) independently, in any pattern (arpeggio), and repeat it ad nauseam, or change it, and back, and so on; it's called practising. WIth an s.
That is why I...never mind. I have been studying pro guitar players and noticed that all, from what i have seen and for the mot part, move the two together. The grip and movement are different for guitar and violin, the violin player movement is closer to a trumpet player. I am referring to a different movement and bending at the knuckle. I think that just the name is the same.
