Violin Tips For ADULT Beginners
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- In this video, I share with you four of my tips for adults who are just starting out on the violin. Don't forget to 'like', subscribe, & share this video with your friends! ❤︎
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I’m 65 and started in January 23. My goal is to play a duet with my daughter who plays cello. Second goal is to have fun making music for myself!! Thanks for this video, your channel is so helpful.
If you get the Suzuki books she can play the accompanying part for the beginner pieces that you should be able to learn now
That’s wonderful, Anne. Glad to hear you are setting goals for yourself. Best of luck to you!
As one of those adult beginners, my extra tip to other adult beginners is to do some shoulder and neck stretches before and after practicing. Makes a huge difference.
Yes, so important!
Wish I'd seen this last week 😢 Just started and pulled my tendons in my left arm 😢
I started playing at 66. I'm now 82 & just beginning to feel good about my playing. My main interest is traditional music, Scottish & Irish. Without doubt, my progress was hampered by trying to play too many tunes. Every new tune I heard was the best & I dropped most others. The outcome was that I could play lots of tunes badly but none well. My tip is to select a few tunes & concentrate them until you can play them well. Add to your repetoire slowly.
Finally, start early to incorporate ornamentation into your playing (flicks, cuts, rolls etc).
Love your tips! Thanks for sharing!
I started violin at 40, coming from advanced piano playing. That was 15 years ago, and I'm just starting to enjoy my violin playing. It's definitely more challenging than piano, which I started around age 4. I still haven't played a complete piece on violin. I start a piece and find bits of techniques lacking, then focus on exercises to improve the technique.
1. It's never too late
2. Remember your reason to start learning the violin
3. Have a positive mindset
4. Create a practice routine in your daily life
Started playing the violin two years ago at age 59. Nothing so frustrating in my life has been so fun. If any other old geezers out there want to strike up a band, please let me know. We can call ourselves The Screetchy Quartet.
Congrats to you!! Yes, would love for that to happen 😂
You are never too old to learn the violin.
I started when I was 20 (i.e. last year) having prior experience in piano and classical guitar. Thanks to channels like yours, I now play a variety of songs and feel comfortable learning new songs purely via TH-cam or even by ear. I still don't read sheet music and I play everything in first position, but I truly believe that if you just want to play for fun, adult beginners are able to learn everything they want via TH-cam.
Awesome, Mel V! TH-cam is a great learning resource, for sure!
I made my violin at a specialist workshop in Cambridge UK and now I am learning to play and have just passed Grade 1 with a high merit. My instrument has a great tone and I am obsessed. I am 73.
That’s incredible!! Cheers!
Wow
I took class in BUILDING also ..I do not look at fiddles the same way anymore
42 years old. I started playing violin about 2 months ago. I progressed really fast at first, just blowing through the first lessons, and now I'm definitely at a plateau. Maybe I can play a decent tune by the time I'm 50.
I started learning violin at age 36, only 10 months ago so I'm very much a beginner. It has been hard but brings me joy and I love it. Love your videos!
Love that, Cecilia! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I’m looking for this kind of comment, yes with age so I can be assured too as I just got a violin. lol. Keep playing!
I'm 50 and start my violin lessons next month. The only instrument I've ever played was a little bit of piano in the 6th grade. God-speed to me and the other ears in my household.
Thank you for the tips. Just started playing violin this summer at 66. I love it and am having fun (with no great expectations). Just bought our 9-year-old granddaughter one yesterday.
So awesome 🙂 Glad to hear you’re having fun with it! What a special thing to be able to do with your granddaughter. Good luck to you both!
Thanks. I’m 41 and I’ll have a fiddle when I get off work today. I’m so excited!!!
I was 48 when I started learning violin
Amanda’s violin - That’s so great!
@@TheTuneProject nearly 20 months since I started violin
Thanks so much for this video, it really helped!
Lauren, Thanks as always. I felt like you were talking directly to me although I know the audience is much broader than that. That frustration point hit home. I have to make a conscience effort to not get too frustrated especially when working with my instructor as I never want her to think my frustration is directed at her, it is all about my mistakes, squeaks, squawks, etc. Love your videos as they are always inspiring.
Totally get that! I’m sure she understands, too. Glad you liked this one - take care!
I enjoyed my violin teacher for 4 lessons but she got married and moved away.
I stopped for many years and now I am interested in picking it up again.
I’m 39 and have been playing daily for 30 days! Loving it!
Started playing violin about a month ago and I'm 43 years old. It's a little weird that my violin teacher is 10 years younger than I am! :)
Thank you for giving us confidence! You rock! \m/ -
I am also 50 years old and have been playing the violin for about two years. Mainly two things I'm trying to improve, the intonation and the cleanliness of the sound in the legate especially in the high positions. For limpid, clean sound after some time I realized that it is not just up to me, but also if the strings are old, the bow hair worn, bad rosin, or all things together. To play well I also have to take care of the violin!
claudio8313 - Thanks for sharing! You’re right, violin maintenance is so important & can really affect your sound. Good luck to you!
I started Violin (I call it "Fiddle because of the style I play) when I was 61. I am going to be 68 (God Willing) this June and I am still at it (learning St. Anne's Reel and Miss McCleod's Ree from you. the hardest one I have learned so far is "Banish Misfortune). Is it hard? Yes! Is it rewarding? Absolutely! I just love it. I play at an Irish Pub here in my city with other Irish Musicians and I learn so much. I took formal lessons from a Violin Teacher for six years but quit a year ago. For all practical purposes, you are my teacher now. Thank you for all that you do and keep creating these videos. They are soooo! Needed!
Glad to have you here, James! It's so great that you're getting to play with other musicians - that's truly one of the best ways to learn. Best of luck to you!
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Thank Lauren i've just started to play violin since march, and i've notice progress with your lessons
Congrats! That’s awesome 😎
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Good video
Thank you for these tips. Got some moral support. ☺💖
You are so welcome :)
wonderful... thanks
Am 62 and started the violin about 4 years ago. I am very frustrated because I still have such a poor tone. Your video made me think about this and I am going to try and relax and enjoy it instead of constantly criticising myself. All the comments here are very encouraging when you realise how many adult learners there are!
Good for you, Wendy! We are our own worst critics, after all, but we can't let that take the fun out of playing. Hopefully you can find some enjoyment in your playing going forward. :)
I'm in my mid-50s, and I started playing about 7 months ago. It has been an amazing journey so far, very satisfying. I started our with the dream of being a part of a little ensemble of some singers and maybe 2-3 instrumentalists, playing Christmas music in the town square, or other public place. This vision has definitely kept me going, although I am also enjoying working out a variety of popular songs, something which is getting easier lately as my facility increases slowly. For instance, a couple nights ago I figured out Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I love it! 🌈
I'm glad to hear you are having fun with the violin! Keep it up, and best of luck to you!
Im 40, my spouse just ordered a violin for me. I’ve NEVER played an instrument in my life. I want to learn it but I know that it’s hard- I’ve been signed up for lessons too as a Christmas present. Im really excited for it. I’ve always been really stubborn about not quitting stuff soooo hopefully that helps me with this! 🤣👍 Best of luck all- you’re definitely not alone in picking up an instrument later in life. Keep at it 🍀 ❤️🐕
That’s so exciting!! Stay consistent with your practice & you’ll reap the results. Good luck to you. 🙂
Not sure about your tech-savvy-ness but I’m 30 and just started learning using the app tunestro and it was like $100 for a year access but it’s really been worth it in my opinion! Good luck with your learning journey!!
Thanks for the advices :)) i find out useful
Happy to help!
I'm 35, bought my first violin 3 days ago. Am trying to give it 30-60 minutes a night. Thanks for the tips.
That's awesome! Best of luck!
Thank YOU Lauren, for those excellent suggestions!
May I add my own observations?
If you are a beginner, don't start on open G and try to end on G on the E string for your first attempt at playing the G scale!
My Niece Anna plays both the Violin and the Flute. (Niece by Marriage).
She corrected me, and said to stay in the first region for now. You can learn string crossing later.
I found this out about two days ago. I didn't know she is a Violinist!!! Just the kind of news I needed to hear to inspire me! Honestly, she is more like a Sister!
Mitch Reed (Fiddle Head) suggest adding stops with scales to keep it from being a boring exercise.
Anna suggested trying to be just Wayne, and stop comparing myself to Lauren, Katy Adelson, or anyone else. I LOVE listening to the Hokum Bow style used in Orange Blossom Special. If you can find an ORIGIONAL. Everyone adds their own "special effects".
Michael Sanchez (Violin Tutor Pro?) says "This is only for Advanced to Very Advanced students".
I think the "take away" from listening to a few people is, 1)Save the advanced stuff for later.
2)Be yourself, and 3)Learning can be FUN. 4)Not everyone advances at the same rate.
Joy Lee suggest putting your finger on the string about 1 inch from the Nut.
If you listen to multiple people, try to learn just one important point to add to what you already know.
Thanks for sharing, Wayne! These are great takeaways. Keep being you & having fun with your music! 🙂
Good discussion Lauren. I'm pushing 67 and dabbling with many different instruments. I just get inspired by watching others that are accomplished and I want to do that now. Do I expect to be a significant virtuoso on the violin (the instrument that is at once the most beautiful and the most difficult) well..... maybe in the next life , but for now I'm jazzed just to work through the learning. I would encourage every wannabe musician whatever the instrument that what you can do now is not what you will be doing down the road. Watch everyone that inspires you then go get your instrument and work on some long tones or something. The more we practice the fundamentals the faster we will be able to do something impressive. I'm not convinced the prodegy's were just born that way. I think most of them were taught that they could do it when they were wee kids and then incouraged to practice and were praised even when their current ability was unmusical .
Great advice! Thanks for sharing. Good luck to you!
My biggest problem has been self confidence. I am in my early 70s and have been playing guitar since the early 1960s, and 5 string banjo from the early 1980s. I had a shot at fiddle in the early 80s but did not progress because I was learning bluegrass banjo. I restarted 'fiddle' about four years ago and thought I was doing pretty well - unfortunately my wife is not tolerant of my practice and my brother musician has been scathing - not much positive reinforcement there! I recently realised that I'm not doing too badly - I've never had a lesson! I know Im doing OK but I wish I didn't have so many naysayers around me. My advice is to keep practicing and don't give up - you will get there if your are motivated!
I totally agree, Bernhard! Good for you for sticking with it and finding your motivation, despite the negative feedback. Keep at it - and best of luck to you!!
Lauren, first of all, LOVE your channel. There are literally hundreds of violin TH-cam channels and I have unsubbed most of them. I started playing at about 64. I'm now 69. My teacher is 88! I've learned so much from him but honestly, I've learned a lot of things from you that I WISH he had taught me earlier. Thank you.
I’m so glad to hear you’re finding value in my videos, Don. Good luck to you!
Thank you. Just bought a violin that hasn't arrived just yet. I'm 57 and I hope I can have fun, most important & early goal - long distance goal is to play somewhere over the rainbow. I just love that song.. Tips are nice, thank you.
Love it! Best of luck!!
I quit playing as a young girl, and just recently started playing again. I'm trying my hardest to remember how to hold my gorgeous instrument and play her properly. Could you please just put a video on about how to hold the violin? I would greatly appreciate it and you. Thank you so much!
Today is going to be day 1 of violin for me. Im nervous for my lesson because im an adult that never learned to read music.
I think I’m doing pretty well for a start but the last injuries on my fingers that I got from my adventurous sports have really affected my fingering, esp with the last pinky finger. But well… I’ll just soldier on. Thanks for the video! It helps to spur me on.
Finger injuries do make things a little tougher, but I’m glad you’re continuing despite! Good luck to you, Maryanne!
I literally bought my first violin yesterday(21yo) and was wondering if that's too late for me, since I want to make my music production skill better. This video is the first thing I saw recommended few minutes after.
Good timing!! Best of luck to you 🙂
0:25 "little community" someday we will be a COLONY an ARMY hahahaha
i'm 15 and i started the last year, i sometimes get frustrated but i love it, i want to improve and despite of never had a teacher i want to imrpove, and all the tips you just said are the best, i use them and keep it in mind everytim, and i do have a practice routine, quite short but its what i can do :/ anyway, we will improve no matter what, thank you Lauren!
Absolutely, Sarah! Keep at it - little by little you’ll get there 💕
About one year in at 66. Going well. But some days I just don't feel musical. If I play then anyway it's not very good vs. when I feel right and it sounds great. Don't recall that being the case earlier in life learning guitar, banjo, piano. Or maybe I'm just more aware in my old age?
I generally start with a 2 octave Gmajor scale along with a recording...8 or 10 times through. Then into the tunes. Doing a lot of pinky work recently which actually goes well even on one of those blah days. Maybe because it lets me focus on technical stuff rather than being musical?
Thanks for sharing, Bo! Good luck to you!
25 y/o here! Haven't touched my violin since I was 17 😣 Im really trying to start again. I wasn't good then and I'm even worse now! Lol BUT IM EXCITED 😁
Good luck to you, Marilyn!
Super
I started violin at age 12 and im 15 now. I admit thats far from the latest i could have started but i still felt self conscious about it
That’s a pretty common age to start! You’re doing great 😊 Keep at it!!
I started playing violin this year at 62 from a guitar back ground of 40 years.
What I can share from my short experience is learn how to hold the bow... There are dozens of videos that show this very important step.
At first I talked my self into, well I can do it better than them, lol FAIL.
The bow is everything and using a cheap one will hinder your progress and attitude. I paid under $400 for the bow I use now from the one that came with my violin, and you don't notice the difference at first but the more you use it you will.
One more thing, rosin. Research and experiment because they are not all the same. I went through 4 before I found what worked for me.
Happy violin journey all !
The bow and bow hold are incredibly important! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Im going to start soon, wish me luck hehe❤
Good luck to you, Amanullah! 🙏🙂
Thank. You. Madam. 👍👌👌
I'm 52 and fresh, one week since my violin arrived (it's in the shop for adjustments right now), open to suggestions and even willing to volunteer as a test subject if anyone happens to be conducting studies on adults learning the instrument. However I am not new to playing music, been a guitar player for over 40 years, not sure yet whether that will be an advantage or not.
Hi Deny! Wow, that's awesome to hear. Yes, your guitar experience will most definitely be helpful to your violin learning. The bow may take some getting used to though... best of luck! :)
Sure I'm down thank you
You are very correct. I started at 65 and I kept 2 years for frustration during my learning. I extended it to 5 years. I never wanted to use a teacher because of the amount of information available on the TH-cam. Since my childhood I had a passion to learn music. Since I had many interests and priorities I spent more time on them. I decided one day I will return to music. After achieving what a man should achieve in life I decided to retire and get back to to my long due passion. Now I have all the time in the world to learn the violin. Good luck to all adult learners.
Thanks so much for sharing this!
I have a stenton 2 told it was for beginner to intermediate stage but it’s so hard to learn as teachers charge fortune where I live but am not walking away any tips on violin rest on height to my chin great vids.
Thanks for your comment. If you have a violin shop in your area, I’d recommend going there and seeing if they can help you with your chin rest and shoulder rest, since they will be able to see you holding the violin and provide suggestions. Good luck!
My tip is a cheap violin hanging on the wall and bow by its side. Learn the scales. They are the alphabet of music. If you can't practice 30 minutes a day then practice 3 minutes a day. One day something magical will happen. This will happen again and again. Scales will sing for you. I promise.
Love your tip about scales! So important.
@@TheTuneProject I fell in love with violin and learned to play at age 38. Then began buying cheap ones and fixing them up even rehaired bows. It soon becomes a passion.
Thanks for the advice. Can you please tell me what percentage does the instrument contribute to the quality of the tone , a ball park figure is ok
It's hard to say! Maybe 30%...? Most of an instrument's tone quality comes from the one playing it. As Jascha Heifetz famously replied to someone who told him his violin sounded good: "I don't hear anything". :)
@@TheTuneProject if it is 70% the player why are prices of violins differs so much , eg $50 to greater than $ 5K or more. If the player is playing reasonably ok it should sound good. If the quality of the violin is poor it will sub press the sound quality in my opening.
How do you get to the top of the mountain? One step at a time.
How do I hold the violin correctly?
I started at age 62 and I will soon begin Suzuki book 6.
That's wonderful! Good luck to you!
I've had an absolutely awful week and haven't touched my violin in 3 days. I hope I haven't gotten worse as a result. my job has been making me work overtime and im physically exhausted 😟
So sorry to hear that, Bradlyeon. Mental/physical health comes first!! Wishing you the best as you get back to playing. Hang in there!
I have started violin for 3 weeks already and I still can't adjust my left-hand and fingers especially. Is it okay? Or am i just to slow?
Try to keep your hand relaxed - this will help. A private teacher can help to address individual issues you are having.
I am 62 and started trying to play last year. Buy a great violin and at a minimum put Evah Pirazzi Green strings on it. I have listened to a thousand videos and no one on youtube is telling you this!!!! All the problems you are having with tone is your cheap strings. Don't buy them from Ebay or Amazon because those are counterfeit. Been there, done that.
It is like learning a new language. After an immigrant family lived in the States for 2 years, their 8 - 10 year old kids will be speaking perfect English while the parents still struggle with simple sentences with their heavy accent. As adults, we just learn slowly and will never be as good as the kids.
On the other hand, with violin music, even with simple songs, it can sound amazing and enjoyable, as long as you learn your vibrato correctly.
Yes, it’s very much like learning a new language. As long as you immerse yourself in something & are committed to learning, that will get you very far, no matter what age.
I’m 28 and don’t know anything about music notes I’m I late ?
It’s never too late to learn!
@@TheTuneProject thank yooou so much!
I’m 30 and just started learning using the app tunestro and it was like $100 for a year access but it’s really been worth it in my opinion! Good luck with your learning journey!!
I mean not every kid starts learning a skill because of their parents 😁
No, but usually skills that require a bit of a financial investment such as learning an instrument 🙂
Well @$%$@ i started playing FIDDLE (,violin) 1978. There was no youtube i learned from Vinyl and watching others and being annoying. Playing for a year with no soundpost...i didnt know... now i do and ive placed in some contests. Word of advice: DO NOT compete against teen age girls even if their intonation is off.. nicely , contests have age divisions now...
Ida Haendel -- don't start after 3 yrs old BTW I'm not endorsing that!
I've seen all utubers, who started violin as adults. All of them play out of tune even after 2 or 3 years of practice:( Same with cello players.