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One year allready… let’s continue doing that. Now I play better, but I’m very sloooooow lololol
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How to learn to play the violin
It made me
Proud Of Myself.
 "It was great."
How I did it: I took an orchestra class in the sixth grade.I've been playing for five years now.I'm still not amazing,but I'm good.I've played at numerous concerts at various places. It's a really fun experience.
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How I did it: I always wanted to play the violin, it seemed proffesional and cool. So I did. I started taking lessons and attending orchestras. Sometimes I was even chosen to perform in concerts! Since I joined an orchestra, I made friends there, and we hung out together regularly and practiced together. We played many duets, and showed them off to other friends and family. It was exciting, and we always looked forward to it every day after school. We … Read how I did it…
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confident
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Intonation
Bow control drills
C Scale
D Scale
G scale
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JessicaLynnValentine is figuring out her life goals
on hold...
3 weeks ago
the only option so far is a male chinese teacher who is really expensive so i’m going to keep putting ads up and hope i get lucky…
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what to do hmmm...
1 month ago
well i have gotten like 3 e-mails so far and they all seem to be people suggesting the same violin teacher. i would do it but like its a chinese teacher AND its a guy. and if your wondering why i don’t want a chinese teacher its not that i’m racist but i had a 2 different chinese piano teachers when i was trying to learn piano and they teach in a weird way they pretty much just tried to get me to memorize songs and figured i would learn all the notes sooner or later. plus i want to know all the american terms for the violin like for piano b flat ect. and i don’t want to learn in do re mi fa do style I want to learn the A B C D E F G way so if i dont get any american people offering to teach violin i guess i could try out this chinese guy…
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Looking for teacher.
1 month ago
My mom put an add out on kunming swap (a email thing you can put adds in like looking for used tv and it gets sent out to any one else who has joined its email) well any ways she put an ad out for a flexible violin teacher cause my biggest rules in life are to keep fridays and saterdays as free as possible but since im trying to get school done, get a job, have time for friends,exersize and have time for me i want to be able to choose what day i get violin lessons so it wont interfere with my other things =)
JessicaLynnValentine is figuring out her life goals
1.I need to find a non-chinese violin teacher thats not to expensive.
2. find a place where i can practice the violin.
3. choose a good day to go and get violin lessons.
4. go to the place and practice violin 3 times a week.
5. after i get serious with violin buy my own violin so i can practice at home.
6. after i can play a few songs and read the violin notes and with the bow i will officially be able to play the violin =)
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