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Thanks ☺️ and good luck with your guitar learning ! ! !

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Glad that you like it ! 🥰

Hello thanks for your comment. I do agree with you that getting a teacher is super important for violin learning and I will find a teacher as long as I can. Currently I am at the very beginning of my career so it is financially difficult for me to get a teacher. I am sharing those videos to record my progress but NOT to say that a teacher is not necessary. And I do believe that everyone can start even though s/he doesn't have everything ready yet. btw, about your last remark, maybe it is too much to say "spend years of your life going down the wrong path". I don't know if you play music in your professional life. But for me, violin is my personal passion. Just playing the violin already brings me a lot of joy in my life. Thanks ☺️

@@Claire-wonderfulland I apologize since my last phrase does sound harsh 😆. I simply meant starting out without proper guidance we may spend years doing fundamental things wrong, and bad habits are very hard to fix. Take one simple thing as playing the D note on the A string. From other musicians’ perspective that may be as simple as pressing the third finger about two and a half steps from the nut on the A string to get the D. We violinists have to do that by throwing all first, second and third fingers in a constant “frame” on the string with some reference “feel” from the nut to get correct and consistent intonation. In other words, getting the B right with the first finger is more important than getting the D. The frame has to stay constant across strings while playing by swinging the elbow when needed. And then we should touch the strings with the inner side of our fingertips since the contact points would be narrower and more precise. And we don’t hit squarely on one string but kinda “in between” the strings to provide a frame of reference for other notes on the fingerboard… These and other things should be ingrained from day one. My teacher still gently picks apart and correct my playing in every session 😫. Without her would I have been able to still play some level 4, 5 pieces in my 3 years? Yes. Would I have played them in a properly trained manner? No. Sometimes I watched recitals by other students from some online violin academy and some proudly said they had spent 5, 6 years learning the instrument. While I wholeheartedly applaud their passion and efforts, I can’t help thinking what difference would those years have made if they had a good teacher. I wish you the best in your violin journey!

I agree with what you said about foundamental things. Of course it is better to have teacher who can point out mistakes immediately. However, not everyone can have a teacher maybe because of money or maybe because of locations. Thanks for your comment though. 🥰 Personally I will soon find a teacher for myself. I know I will need to correct many things about my playing but still I am happy that I started even when I didn't have a teacher.

Thanks for your comment 🥰 Good luck with your violin playing as well !

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Yes currently I still don't have a teacher but I will get one soon. Thanks 🥰

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@@Claire-wonderfulland You are welcome!

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yes sure, now i tried to use toothbrush to brush the hair sometimes. thanks for your comment ☺️

Hello thanks for your comment 💓 yes i will find a teacher as soon as possible. This is also what i want to do

Thanks for your comment. As you can see, I still have stickers on my fingerboard. To be honest, I haven't played without those stickers. When I am sightreading a new piece, i usually look at the music sheet rather than fingerboard. But even though I am not looking at the fingerboard, my fingers are usually placed by themselves at the correct place (i.e. on the sticker). Later on, I just remember all notes by heart so I can look at fingerboard and place my fingers at the right place. I think practicing scales is very important because by doing it, your left hand will eventually remember the space between fingers. But definitely you need to do a lot of practice in order to develop muscle memory. And about using ears, for me, I think it is about finding the right place (when there is no sticker on fingerboard) by listening the pitch and then making your fingers remember where they should be.

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Thanks 🥰 I just search what NYO-USA is. That's great that you got in !!!

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hello Peter, thanks for your comment ! I just went to your homepage and watched your progress video. I have to say your tone is way much better than me in the first several months 👍

Thank you so much! I had a slight advantage as I've had years of piano knowledge before hand which really helped my violin playing. You're doing extremely well and I hope you keep up your wonderful journey. Looking forward to more videos from you, subbed! ⭐

WOW! I was in your video before to come here. I think your progress very very nice. I hope to be where you are. Greats from Brazil 🇧🇷👏🏾👏🏾

hello thanks for your comment and your suggestions !

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Thanks 🥰 Yes, I do agree that having a teacher would be better. But it is financially difficult for me to hire a teacher 🥲. I will find a teacher as long as I can.

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Merci pour ton commentaire! J'aime vraiment tes videos! Merci 💓

hello thanks for your encouragement 😊 yes I know some people on the internet are not very friendly 🥲 but anyways I will keep uploading my progress videos

Hello thanks ! Actually I want to find a teacher but I have to find a job for me firstly 😅 Good luck with your violin journey!

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Be more charitable in your comment and offer actual constructive advice if you want people to actually improve. Using a metronome to practice a piece can help with being more in time, you can also count in your head and tap your foot along with it. And also learn the terms for different tempos (allegro, andante, etc.) if you haven’t yet.

Hello thanks for your suggestion about metronome. For me, this piece is the first one that involves 3rd position and I just started to learn shifting now long ago. On the day recording this video, I just learnt all notes and haven’t yet practiced more to get tempo right. Again thanks for your kind reply ☺️

Hi thanks ! I had some problems with my first violin. I checked with a tuner but still it sounded out of tune. But I changed to a new violin in the 4th month. I think it is better. For the bow hand, yes my pinky was straight all the time but I changed it in the 3rd or 4th month.

Hmm how about checking the tempo with metronome help? :) It works wonderful to me as a beginner playing strings in her 30's :) 加油！ Dee

Hello thanks for your comment. Yes I am right now practicing pieces with metronome for sometime to be in tempo. 谢谢你！

@@Claire-wonderfulland Very glad to hear, keep on going! 但是.. 我覺得您是否經常感到焦慮、緊張或精神緊繃? Because it's right there when you draw the strings. It seems to me you feel anxious and unsure 😔 My previous teacher would recommend practicing open strings as a daily warm-up and distribute the weight of the bow evenly to make an even sound. Attack the note with more confidence as if you were singing!!

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You should definitely start 💥 violin sound is so beautiful.

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Merci ! C'est genial que tu joues des trois instruments !

Hello Alison, thanks for your comment ! To be honest, I don't really know about octave strings. I bought this violin when I didn't know anything about violin yet and it was like 100 euros or less. I don't know what kind of strings are on this violin. 😅 But I changed to a Fiddlerman Master Violin several days after this video.

Hello thanks for your comment. I am sorry that I cannot answer your question because I don't know about Schradieck book 1. But maybe you can search for those instructors who talk about schradieck on KZfaq and ask them.

@@Claire-wonderfulland What book would you suggest ? It would be nice of you if you attach the sheet music that you are practicing with your video.

This exercise is from Alison's book. You can go to this video for more information kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epqXe8iLksimpHk.html

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I agree that nerves can make it harder to play an instrument (or even sing). I haven’t done any recitals, however I tried a group holiday play-in and didn’t do very well, partly due to not being fast with reading and having had learned different versions of the same song. Also, when I was in college, I sang a solo and was so nervous that I quickly went off-key with a shaky voice.

I pushed myself a lot to do it 😂 but i guess your instructor is the only lucky person to hear your cello playing 💥

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Thank you very much ! 😊 It is very inspiring 🥰

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