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Thx. I gave up before i even start.

All instruments can make music. but violin can sing.

The key is to relax guys.

I teach myself to play violin and the first few months are completely discouraging. my wife even asked me if I could make the sound silent...It takes enormous patience and practice. and also a stiff on the shoulder.

I’ve always loved the violin, but have been too intimidated to learn. One of my clients (who didn’t know I love it) was downsizing for a move and asked me to take his. I saw it as a sign, subscribed to your channel for guidance. Wish me luck 😳🤞🏽

Im in orchestra, and I'm playing the violin in 6th And 7th. It took some practice but I'm a good violin player at it!

So basically, if learning to touch type on a computer keyboard was like learning the violin: 1- Half the keyboard would be turned 90 degrees so your hands would be in different planes; 2- It wouldn't have any letters or numbers printed on it, so you'd be forced to experiment with and memorize what each key does; 3- You'd have to apply a specific amount of force with your fingers for each key, not more and not less than required, otherwise the letters on screen would come out looking wonky; 4- You'd have to control the specific amount of speed you press the key with as well, not too slow nor too fast; 4- Each individual key would require a different amount of ideal force and speed, so you'd have to learn each one separately; 5- the keys would not be evenly spaced, with keys being more spaced out on one side of the keyboard and more cramped together towards the other side. Let's take a moment to thank the heavens that computer keyboards are not violins.

0:49 1) Independent Hand control : My son plays tabla so he's quite used to controlling either hand independently. So most probably violin maybe "easier" if it's not the first instrument you learn. Either that or you just put in the patient practise to train both hands to move independently. 02:10 2) Counterintuitive technique : If you think of it as playing the violin rather than holding the violin it starts making more sense. To "play" the violin you need to be able to move hands smoothly, lightly and quickly rather than hold in a fixed vice grip. 3) No frets/Play by Ear : Listening to lots of music from a young age is key to developing a good ear. Best part is it's a lot of fun and can be done for a huge amount of time. Just play the Music in the background. Instrumental music esp can be heard in the background while doing most work or otherwise without distrubing you. 4) Violin is Hard to hold : Hindustani/Carnatic violin is played sitting down. The violin is held pointing down and resting on the ankle rather than being gripped by the chin and shoulder as in the Western method. 05:50 5) Sounding good on the violin : a) weight vs speed b) thin vs thick strings c) position between bridge and fretboard.

I’m learning to play the violin on my own. I find it easier to catch on playing songs with longer notes it helps me build my muscle strength. It is also helping me learn the notes and the position my body needs to be in to play certain notes. The faster songs are a little more difficult because you jump from one position to another kind of quickly.

A very long time ago, I managed to drag the bow across one string one time and made it sound like a violin 🎻 . Never happened again.

Thank you for the video! This was very helpful😊

I started when I was too young to know that at six years of age, the violin was difficult to play.

I picked up violin fast I guess. At one week end I could play smile songs I knew. At a month I could play simple Irish and country tunes. At six months I was going to music jams. If I listened to this guy I would have never started.

Nice videos. I find there are many string teachers but few trained teachers, which is an art form in itself.

My 10 year old daughter how to play twinkle twinkle and mary had a little lamb in two days. Now I'm thinking about buying my own violin at 33.😄 this is going to be fun. Thanks for the information sir.

I’ve been playing the violin for around 9 years... how did I not quit within the first week 😂😂

Passionate about it is important if you're beginning to learn violin it is very helpful

Very insightful

I started violin at 6 years old. I remember in kindergarten when I did NOT have a violin yet I got my Elena of Avalor guitar and then I got a stick from pickup-sticks and I pretended I played the violin😂😂😂😂😂. Right now I am so good I can even OUIDO on piano and violin. Right now I am still on book 2 and I am suppose to learn vibrato at book 4 but then I already know how, I taught myself how to do vibrato, my violin teacher said to me "since you already know how to do vibrato, you will learn vibrato in book 3" and I was so excited, the time my teacher told me that I was still book 1. Hope you liked my story

WoW... good to know what Im getting myself into 😳

Got my zuback a year a go and i love it

I started taking lessons 3 months ago and my neighbour might complain sometime...

Thank you!

Love your videos. I’ve been teaching myself and I can almost play “Twinkle, Twinkle little star” and it mostly sounds right...lol. Makes me realise I need a good teacher.

My bosses purchased my Louis Carpini from your store, as a Christmas gift last December. I love it. And my teacher is impressed with it, he recently recommended it to another student. I appreciate your videos, they are very informative and entertaining, thank you. I do have one question. Was my violin made in Italy? There’s Italian writing inside of it, but wanted to confirm.

My mom was a violin teacher, I know every standard piece for beginners by hard, because I had to listen to it all day during my childhood.I still wonder, what love for teaching she must have had, because sometimes it must have been really hard. Every other day she would come to my room during a lesson, sit down and say: "Guess, which piece it is." , because the student learned the piece so wrong at home :D

Sometimes I practice 4-7 hours a day and I'm still very bad at the violin. It is the hardest instrument ever

I tried violin, wasn't my cup of tea. I am a piano guy myself!!

Reason no five is getting a poor quality instrument can make a big difference especially for beginners

I think the guitar is just as difficult in that up and down on the strumming hand and the horizontal motion on the fingering hand. The fingering distances change on a guitar, too. Perhaps all stringed instruments are complex in the same way.

Having the right sized violin for the person is also very important. To big or too little and it's more difficult to play. I'm a small adult, with little hands. A 7/8 or 3/4 is a better fit for me than a 4/4. Much easier to play in tune.

You see that empty blackboard behind the strings? You are supposed to mark that up with whatever musical scheme you are using. For example with violin, most pieces are in the key of D, so you would probably want to mark your violin fingerboard with a standard heptatonic scale in the key of D. Or you could just leave it blank like a fool...

is it normal to repeat the "wait, there's more!" at 6:56 several times because of the way he delivers it? Reminds me so much of the Technology Connections guy.

It takes as much time to handle any instrument and just after he says violin is hard at the begining... For having practice many instrument the violin is the hardest and takes practice for many more stuff than other instruments. Also with the violin i feel like i am more connected to what i am doing sound wise. With other instrument i mostly feel like the instrument is playing the sound more than i am

Hi Kennedy, which one do you want to ship for a just turned 32 years from a developing economy, Nairobi - Kenya 😄 . I've settled on you.

I've just started learning to play the violin at the age of 54. I seem to be having some difficulty getting my 2 & 3 fingers close together. My instructor says I have larger than usual hands for playing the violin. I've always considered my hands average on size but is it true that one's hands can be "too large" for playing the violin? Or are there any sort of "tricks" I could learn to help with my "big hands"? Recommendations would be great. Thanks.

I think of starting the Violin🎻🎻🎻

left/right hand have to be in sync, even a half mm distance on harmonics will sound weird, off string passages, and how to not choke with fast excerpts. Havent even "mentioned" the control of left hand pizz and double harmonics...

Two years in and still struggling....

How many times will take to learn violin Can I learn in 3 month

Violin sometimes takes even a month to learn basics and play beginner level songs.

What is that Two guitar performance at the beginning of the video??

7:48 didn't know you could wah-wah with the bow. I'm going to do a violin cover of Voodoo Child.

Thanks for convincing me not to start with the violin. I know I’m not willing to put in that much work. I’ll stick to working on the piano, and eventually graduate to the guitar.

I am 14 years old boy, I want to buy a good violin for the first time, Can you suggest me what size I should buy ?please suggest me few brands\models too. Thank you

Nice summary! One last point though. I feel the left hand position changing when moving across the strings or up the neck into the higher positions. You don’t really have that near as much on the guitar, if you’re holding them in the proper position in relation to your body. Especially easy fingering on guitars with ergonomic body cutaways, unless you need to bring over your thumb for certain chords. Violin forces your left-hand digits to always have the proper pitch angle in relation to the string, whereas on a guitar with frets there’s a lot more leeway for a good note.

is there an advantage to lean violin if you master the guitar?

I wished I could have watched this video when I started violin in 1978. hehe Instead, I just dove right in not really knowing what I was doing.

Coming from someone who has been playing the violin for 5 years, I can understand why there's no frets (enabling the fingers to slide up and down the finger board). But why in the world are there no markingss? It seems an effort to make it more difficult to play, and vibrato a means to fudge missed notes. I have put marks on my finger board!

I have had a desire to learn to play the violin, my daughter bought me a 3/4. I'm 66, do you think I have a chance. I have operated cranes up to 500 ton, I think I have a chance, what do you think? Will desire get me there?

So You Keep on Practice Your Violin Study Music Practice Tonight Tomorrow I have been Busy Days Of Violin Study Music Progress Meeting For Violin Studying Classical Music Title: Symphony #5 Ludwig Van Beethoven 1st Movement Allegro Con Brio 1st Movement. 1st Violin

vibrato is my mountain climber. I know but I just cant get it. Its going to take awhile.

Luckily we have got an alternate to violin now, chromatic harmonica.

How do I produce a good tone on the violin?

*Me learning different shifting fast-paced fingerpicking patterns while doing Barre chords on my Ukulele:* 👁👄👁

So i learnes to play the trumpet, violin, and guitar, and tmid say the trumpet was easiest, the violin wasnt really that hard, and the guitar was hell

Did you say that if I have ANY chance of playing in tune, I’d have to press my fingers on the strings thousands, and thousands, and thousands of times? 😳

Hello chandler from friends

It’s not hard. Just some practice.

I just got my first violin. The G-string is quite difficult to get much sound out of. Do I need more rosin or better strings??

I just broke 2 A strings 😭

Anything could be difficult and anything could be easy it depends on your interest , concentration and dedication towards your goal. Any way thanks for the video I learned a lot of things about violin And I believe if one has mastery in vocal they can learn any instrument easily and efficiently

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I was just thinking getting a violin for my birthday and then i saw this video I think i will give up.....but no i wanna learn so bad do u think i could really play?? And btw im 14

Is there a Chin rest that's flat? NO uncomfortable lips that just don't fit my chil.

3:43 *and that's why I'm never letting go of my stickers* meanwhile, my teacher's peeling them off one by one

There is a video from a channel/twosetviolin. 10 reasons that violin is the hardest instrument.

1:38 who is this pianist from hell?!?

Here I am again :D

Can you talk about "Why physics, chemistry, mathematics are so hard to learn?". I bet you don't like physics, chemistry and mathematics.

I cringe when he mentions "thousands of hours"... because there's no escaping it

Oh...... much words about NOTHING !!!!!

Bullshit, I know guitar, piano and violin. Violin is the easiest actually