learn to play the violin

I was so proud that I just had to announce it to the world. :D

My first song? Good King Wenceslas.
For those who don’t know the song you can go here and find out what it is.

I just started, I used to play piano, I gave that up, but now i kinda mess around with it. I still kinda play guitar, I could be a lot better at it… but I mainly mess around with it as well.. But I got a violin recently and I’ve been wanting to learn how to play it since I was a little boy, and I would love some tips or any help anyone can offer.. Right now I’m playing it like a guitar and figuring out .. watered down, horrible sounding songs from games.. I just taught myself a horrible version of the Metal Gear Solid theme,I’m trying to improve on it. But any help would be amazing, I love classical and Irish Classical, if anyone knows those two please help me? If not anything and everything is welcomed I just want to learn :)

I finally found someone who would teach me violin! I had my first lesson two weeks ago. She’s very nice and very cheap! Only $10 a lesson, once a week, and $5 of it goes towards buying the violin she’s loaning me.

I’m excited that after wanting to play this beautiful instrument for so long (practically my whole life) I can finally learn. This is a dream come true! But I’m not even close to really knowing yet. I don’t even know any songs yet!

So here we go. One massive step closer to learning violin. I’m so excited. :)

If you don’t know how to read music, you must first learn that! I don’t know how to teach myself how to read music. I learned in middle school.

Teach yourself how to play by ear.

To play by ear, all you do is see if you can pick out notes, at what the band is playing. Make sure the note matches what the band is singing. I recommend worship music, backing tracks that go with music books.

This will you help you a lot. Next, buy a tuner. Play around on the violin and see what note your playing by, looking at the violin. The tuner will show you what note you’re, playing. Do this every day until you are confident with yourself. Then, find someone who teaches violin, and get lessons.

Which means my violin finally has all its cords. I was looking at the instrument after that and thinking that it might be better to just put this one in its glass case and not play it anymore. Not because I want to stop playing! But because this violin has a very high value, sentimental AND monetary.

It belonged to my grandfather, my great uncle brought it back from the Netherlands in 1945 after WW2, it was given as a gift by a man there. It’s a Hopf, a German violin, and it’s almost a century old now. Its monetary value is estimated to 1500 euros. I couldn’t find the value in Canadian dollars, but 1500 euros is approximately equivalent to 2500 canadian dollars.

I would never want to take any risk of breaking it. That’s why I think I’m gonna stop. I’ll start again when I buy a new violin, a cheaper one, just to help me practice. But for now, I have to save my money for more important things. We’ll see later, maybe in a few months, maybe in a few years… I don’t know.

well i like the way u can express yrself via music, so i wish to learn to play violin someday.

I think it is the most beautiful instument of them all. No matter what the mood, it always moves me. It would be a dream come true to learn to play, and play well.

Has anyone taken music classes at Santa Ana College (specifically orchestral instruments…)

How are they? Are the teachers any good? Should I look elsewhere? What JC has a good instrumental music program?

I have access to a violin, now I just need to find cheap classes AND commit to actually learning the stupid thing. I can already read music pretty well, but I have no clue where to even BEGIN with playing a violin. I’m sure the technique is somewhat different than the piano…

I don’t care I ‘m not giving up I’m going to practice everyday from today onwards!

I’m learning to play violin… veeeeeeeery nice