Violin 1 Year Progress (Adult beginner)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2022
- I am an adult self-taught student sharing my violin 1-year progress video with all of you. There are so many inspirational people sharing their violin journeys with us all, and I would like to contribute to that collection. Anything is achievable if we dedicate the time and energy required to get there.
In retrospect, I now appreciate the importance of drilling the basics during the initial stages of the learning process; intonation and bow control are both my vocal point for the next few months, and not so much learning new pieces. My path regarding teaching resources was Alison, the online Piano and Violin tutor; I cannot recommend her beginner course enough; that's not to say I didn't cherry-pick other resources from the abundance available. Her teaching method and lesson structure met my individual learning style. Hope you enjoy my journey so far.
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Today is Saturday, February 11, 2023 and I just had my first violin lesson today, as a 22-year-old adult beginner. I’m both excited and scared about where my journey with this string instrument is headed but seeing your video and progress gives me hope!
Great to hear that you have started on your violin quest. My only regret is that I didn't start playing earlier in my life; that being said, better late than never. All the best in your own development, I would certainly recommend spending time on getting the basics nailed. It will help a lot as you progress onto more technical playing.
As a person who started violin at the age of 9, I think violin will take you many places. Remember to loosen up a bit sometimes and good luck with your violin journey!❤
Nearly 7 months on from this vid I certainly feel that I have started to relax. My bowing wrist feels more fluid, and there if notable improvements in the tone, ‘in my opinion’ :-). Originally I started out to inspire out sim to want to play an instrument. Yet as I progress, my commitment to playing continues to grow, keen to see where I can go with this.
That should read, ‘our son’.
I started about a year and a half ago and it's the most frustrating and most rewarding thing I've ever tried to learn. I've recently FINALLY come into my tone and so now i'm really getting even more enjoyment out of it.
Good work!! I’ve been playing the violin for three years and I can surely attest to the fact that it is one of the hardest instruments to learn. It’s extremely rewarding when you know how to play it but it’s also brutally punishing for any of the littlest mistakes you make. I absolutely love these kind of videos and I’m thankful for your courage to put this video up. Good luck on the rest of the journey. Keep it up!
It's never too late to learn something new. That's what my teacher in school said. I have been teaching cello and violin for 30 years, and I am inspired by people like you who have the boldness to start something new. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your comments, I’m now 2.5 years into playing, this instrument is so rewarding to play once you make it past those initial months (otherwise unspecified).
I taught myself the violin with no teacher. Music books with CDs were a big help. This started on 2015. I still can’t left hand vibrato, but you can.
To me the violin is a mini music school in itself.
Keep at it. I’m an adult beginner as well. 46 years old and started 2 years ago. Definitely has been a journey. Ask your teacher to let you know when it’s time to upgrade your bow or instrument. I just upgraded my bow and it has made a world of difference. Looking forward to more progress videos from you :)
I'm on the same journey Dude! It's not about how beautifully you are playing. It's about how hard it is to challenge yourself to do something you want to.
Agreed, it is very much about the journey, violin has so many different component parts to work on, therefor it really is a lifelong pursuit for those willing to take on the challenge. Good luck with yours.
Good for you keep playing! I am in the same boat… cheers !
Congratulations 👏🏼 as a seasoned violinist, your progress truly is incredible - I look forward to following your progress this year :)
Thank you for your comments. I'm now 9 months further along in my learning and can identify the glaring issues in my playing from the 12-month point. Looking forward to sharing my 2 years' progress when I reach that point. Really happy with my progress so far, so much so that I feel the beginner sound is no more. lol
I’m a violinist myself! This is impressive with how quickly you’re learning. Did you learn to read music? I would recommend that! ❤️ wishing you the best!
Man I just want to say this to you. Your progress is inspiring and I can only see you getting better from here. The only way for you to go is up! It’s truly astonishing the amount of commitment you’ve put into playing! Keep up the good work! And many blessings to you!
Keep on you’re doing great! ❤️❤️
WELL DONE !!!!
Wow! I think you teach your violin playing well! From beginning to the end of this video, there is a great progress. I am an adult violin learner, too. By watching your video my passion of playing violin had been strenthened. Thanks for sharing your video, and hopefully we will play as good as we wished someday!
Well done! This is cool! I am also an aspiring adult violinist! I am very glad to know that there are many of us. As soon as I have a year, I will also post a video.
Thank you, great to hear that you have taken on the challenge. For me the experience continues to feel rewarding with every micro improvement. Record your practise sessions as much as possible, they are great to look back on as you progress.
awesome job
Very well done! I have been playing the violin for about five years. You have great progression skills, and I love your posture and your beggining to do vibrato. It may seem like a very difficult and painful journey in the beginning, but as you keep progressing, you’ll find that all of that work will be worth it.
Great progress. I am nearly 2 years into learning so good to compare. I found it tough to continue sometimes, especially when it seems only micro improvements are made and feeling like 1 step forward and 2 back. Only when I look back I notice the improvement. Learnt lots of what not to do on the way. Keep up the good work!
this is amazing!
I only would advise you to move your right wrist (up and down a bit) when you play in the lower half of the bow.It will help to straighten the bow and have better sound.Good luck.
That's a really good progress I love it. I love how you have a good bow hand and you move your wrist. So talented. I recommend practicing the violin Suzuki books.
Hey hey you started playing around the same time I did then. I started September of '21. I feel like i've had almost the exact same journey you've had, even down to that songbook from the online british lady violin/piano teacher. You're my violin brother :)
I loved watching how your bow hold progressed and how the finger tapes gradually disappeared. Bravo!
Im a ten year old learning to play the violin. Im spot on with posture and holding the violin and bow, and ive been looking forward to performing at my uncles wedding in not long. I am doing HORRIBLY in performing the wedding march but am doing very well in just learning to play in general. You're welcome from this very much useless description of myself.
FANTASTIC I.M ABOUT 2 WEEKS AND BATTLING A BIT,,,BUT I.M DETERMINED,,,THANKS FOR POSTING VIDEOS ,,,GIVES ME HEART !!
GOOD LUCK WITH IT ,,,
very good 😮
great stuff! I started learning the instrument for a few months now, your video inspired me to start recording my own playing! Keep practicing and have fun!
Thank you for your comments, the primary motivation for posting these vids was to inspire others to learn to play. So I am very happy that it encouraged you to do the same.
Very nice job!! I'm an adult beginner, too, but just one tip: Watch your pinkie as it's off the bow sometimes ;)
Bravo
Yay, nice! ☺👍
Sound like my adult beginner when I self learnt violin togather with my 7yo almost 2 years back. Still learning! Now my daughter can play better than me due to lack of practising 😅
I love you! Great playing. 😄
Thank you.
what a cool house
How often do you practice and how long are your practice sessions?
What's the hardest thing about begining the violin? Also congratulations on your musical journey!!
That seems great progress for 12 months, especially your first 3 months, I started about 6 weeks ago but am really struggling on my 3rd and 4th finger exercises, can't see myself getting to your standard in another 6 weeks, love the little gaelic tune at the end what a ripper, if I can be playing that after 12 months I'd be over the moon, good luck with it, I take it you must practice alot to get to that standard, how much time each day would you spend on practice.
Thanks mate; great to hear that you have recently started playing. Practise-wise, I started during the lockdown period, at which point my job was also impacted, so I initially ended up playing for a couple of hours per day. In hindsight, that was too much as i was getting a sore neck from playing so much. In my opinion, little and often is the optimal balance. I am now 18 months in and have been able to maintain consistency with my practice, sometimes, it might only be 15 mins, but better than nothing.
If I could have my time again, I would have focused my time on playing easy songs well as opposed to racing through songbooks only to play them at the same questionable standard. Once you develop the basics, it will translate over to new pieces which makes learning heaps more fun.
Hope my 5 cents help,
Would I be correct in thinking you are in Aus 'Ripper'?
@@myviolinjourney.9821 Thanks for the reply mate, It gives me a glimmer of hope seeing your progress if I can achieve half of what you've done in 12mths I'll be wrapped, Yeah I'm from Sydney, I'm doing the same online course as you, I'm up to lesson 8 but have been stuck on it for the last 2 weeks, hopefully will start to click soon. Anyway good luck with your practice mate, you are well on your way now, good onya👍
Smae here I'm currently 1 month in and I need to start recording myself!
Start recording as early as possible, it helps a lot with identifying your focus areas.
Congrats man, stick to it.
nice progress! what was this last song you are playing?
Thank you, the last piece is an Irish fiddle tune called, 'Swallow Tail Jig'.
Nice work, but you need to really lengthen your bow strokes. Each note doesn't need to have a different stroke, especially in legato phrases. Generally when you see a slur it's a one direction bow stroke. Spiccato can help on a piece like the Strauss waltz, more of a bounce than a straight bow. Now, on to Paganini (I am learning the 24 Caprices, man are THOSE hard!). Keep making beautiful music!
Hey Gary, thanks for the feed back, I have been working on the points you highlighted in the time since publishing this particular video (9 months ago), so I'm keen to see how the 2 years progress vid will compare when i create it in July 23. It has been quite the journey so far. Looking forward to having a crack at some more technically challenging pieces, good luck with your development goals.
how long do you play in the week?
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Hey, practice times have varied depending on other commitments. Don't beat yourself up about how much time you 'should' practise. During the lockdowns, I could practise for a couple of hours. There was a period over a few months when I would be lucky to get 15 mins. Over time I have found that 1 to 1.5 hours work well for me, and I have been able to sustain that on a daily basis.
Is that vibrato?? That’s impressive beginning off
In hindsight, I was trying to run before I could walk, following this vid I decided to leave vibrato alone and focus on improving my intonation.
Vibrato??? More like Parkinson’s
@@myviolinjourney.9821 Good decision. Because your vibrato was fundamentally incorrect. If you keep practicing it that way, you'll have to spend a lot of time unlearning it one day. Everything else looks very good for an one-year learner. Keep it up! Stay humble and keep paying attention to the fundamentals, you'll be great one day.
Hi
Can I offer some advice? 🤔 First...I'm SO HAPPY that you ditched classical...and went into Irish! 🤣 Now you can start having fun...LMAO... Here is my advice:
First, you're doing AWESOME!! SIMPLY GREAT!!
RELAX. Relax the shoulder. All that tension is built up and transferring to the bow, then the strings...So CHILL.
Your WRIST is super tight. Look at the video. Same with your neck...RELAX!! Let the motion become more fluid. OK? This in and of itself will set you 15 months ahead overnight!
You're using alot of up and down single bow strokes. "Sawing" - try slurring more... combining 3 or 4 notes into one fluid bow motion...
And stay in the 1/3 topmost of the bow if possible. Shorten your bow strokes...tighten them up. You'll get faster.
Pay attention to the angle of your bow! Sometimes you're angling too much. And you want to "cant" your frog away from you...meaning don't use the whole of the hair...
Your string changes are GOOD! Work on your downbow emphasizing where the beat is. Don't start attacking pizzicato, and more advanced techniques until you are ready...one at a time. You might feel you want to or "I can handle it"...but what you're doing is confusing your muscle memory and your mind...let those adapt FIRST...
If you were at a gym, Monday would be chest and biceps. Tuesday legs,Wednesday, back and shoulders and thursday torso,hips etc. Every day is a bit of cardio...right?
Same here. Don't do pizzicato, bow bounce, slurring, shifting and vibrato all in one day...practice scales daily. And THEN focus on 1 or 2 techniques.
Keep going bud!! 💪
Hey James, thanks for the detailed feedback, love the gym analogy, strangely i had not thought about it like that, makes perfect sense. I agree with all the points you have highlighted and have been trying to work through them since this video was published. In 3 months time i will be at my 2 year point, I'm confident that there will be notable improvements. That being said, I cannot help myself when it comes to attempting more technically challenging pieces, so perhaps this will benchmark if I'm actually ready to take them on. From a genre perspective, I'm leaning more toward the Irish fiddle/ Gypsy style of music given that my playing ambitions are light entertainment at parties, however this is always subject to change. Exciting times.
dang, bro started vibrato at like 5 months. that's called practice
Hey, shortly after recording this video, I put vibrato on hold, returning after a few months. Having mixed results at the moment, 🙂.
electric violin.
why does everyone choose violin? so many people are just to big for it and would be better suited to a viola, but i love the authenticity and the struggle.
I think my hands are too big for the violin. Even by third position I can't play semitones (half steps) without gymnastics (getting one finger out of the way for another).
@@JSB2500 same here mate, i had been playing violin for 8 years, gone through 12 teachers, and my current one (and best so far) suggested i make the change to viola, it was the best thing i could have done, no more gymnastics, and i simply love the deeper sounds of the viola, i suppose you could get a viola stringed as a violin, but learning the bass has not taken to long. For us people who are big, i cant recomend viola enough,
@@TopJoe Thanks Josiah - especially as I wanted to learn the viola in the first place! Do you still play your violin(s)? Or have you sold them? I'm not sure what to do with mine if I switch to the viola.
i am an adult beginner from india.. 30 yrs. learning violin for the past one and a half year. my one year progress is better than this....
Good for you mate.
Hi bro , where can I get the rental violins ? if you know please share with me
I keep coming back to this video in order to be inspired by your playing to continue and progress, sometimes I feel stuck and Im very slow, My teacher tells me that I am never slow and that compared to my age and as a person who knows nothing about the notes and the music I'm very good if not excellent (I am 33 years old) but still I feel that I am slow or hasty for myself which brings me a lot of tension in the shoulders 🥲.
I’m pleased that you are finding this video useful. Much like yourself, I had no knowledge of musical theory prior to learning to play, fortunately I have rectified that now. Over recent weeks I have focused on my right wrist flexibility which has made a notable improvement to my sound. We all have those days were frustration gets the better of us due to our own expectations. Please continue to practise and I’m sure your skills will progress beyond your expectations.