Monday, November 5, 2012

Is It difficult to Learn Violin?

By Elke Onon


When the dust settles " what we are talking about here at the end of the day is just about a musical instrument " the Violin. Its sure does not require a genius status to be able to learn to play regardless of all the YouTube videos of 3-4 year old geniuses you may have seen

The qualities you need are simply " the interest to play the violin and the tenacity to be taught how to play it. Having these qualities is half the battle " however you need to understand that it will take time for you to learn the basics of handling and playing the instrument. Be prepared to practice -practice " practice.

Is this a race? Heck " No!! take your time " realise that everyone learns at a different pace. So if you happen to be blessed with a natural ability to play any kind of instrument and it takes you just a few days to get used to handling the Violin " great!! If you are not as gifted and it takes you longer " that is ok too as long as you are learning and enjoying yourself

When you consider that 20 years ago the choices available to a keen /budding violin student was either to pay for a personal mentor or to sign up to a music school.

I should add that these two options are absolutely fine " however for someone that for one reason or another could not go down either of these routes " I believe that they should still be able to enjoy learning the violin. The explosion of the internet and changed all of this " today you can now access online violin courses on the internet from the comfort of your home.

Today Online Violin courses present tremendous value and opportunity for you to learn to play the violin in the comfort of you home. With a wide range of choices " some will even let you trial part of the course for free.

This is ideal for a lot of budding musicians as they can learn in the comfort of their home without the stress of having to get to a classroom somewhere every other day.

A possible downside may be the fact that you may not be able to interact with other students at the same skills level as you- for some people this may be an issue " but fir the majority of people the idea of learning for home is quite enticing

So what next " if you believe that you will be happy learning from home then I suggest you sign up for an online violin class. At a later date " you may feel that you are ready financially and time wise to enrol into a music school.

By doing it this way hopefully you will find that when you do enrol into a class that you can easily cope with the lessons

If you can " try to buy a couple of good books teaching on learning to play the violin. Don't buy sheet music at this stage no matter how tempting it is. Keep practising until you are very comfortable in handling you violin and perhaps only at this point consider sheet music.




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