Welcome! Here’s how to get oriented: ⬜ Introduce yourself in the 👋 Introductions thread ⬜ Visit the 🥋 Dojo: Vibrato 2026 thread and try an exercise (coming March 3) ⬜ Share a win or question anytime This space is for encouragement and shared focus - whether you’re training inside Jenny’s Daily Lessons or are simply a fellow adult violin learner. If you’re enrolled in Core Training or Personal Coaching, use this space to support and strengthen your structured training. If you’re not enrolled, you’re still fully welcome here on Skool - and you can explore the full structured training path anytime → https://www.jennyoconnor.com/programs/ Nothing here is required. Jump in when you’re ready. — 🔔 Quick Note on Notifications (Optional) Skool can send a lot of emails by default. You may want to adjust this once: • Click your profile photo (top right) • Go to Settings • Select Notifications • Customize what emails you receive That’s it - set it once and you’re good. 🎻💪 Jenny

What do you say we take a little break from all the serious training Dojo talk and share some fun inspo over the weekend? Doug's Cajun Fiddle post inspired me to share a video from my fiddle idol, Liz Carol. Please post yours as a comment here or make your own post by selecting "Hot Violinist Hangout" as the category when you post. You may notice that just about everything about her technique is "wrong." But somehow it's clearly working for her!! (Watch her double toe tapping while playing too - that's something we will do later this year in the Rhythm Dojo.) I got to see her play solo like this right in front of me at Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp in the early 2000s when I had not been playing very long. At one point the fiddling was just really cooking up and she was going off on all these improvised runs and she let out this vocal glee sort of laugh rhythm thing. It was really incredible, like once in a lifetime sort of experience. Meanwhile through the camp - I was miserable to be honest. Everybody there played amazing, even the other students sounded a lot like Liz. I was slower than everyone. I swear I was the worst one there. At the time I felt like I didn't learn anything because it was all too fast and I was so far behind where I wanted to be. But looking back, that's where I learned how to do five note rolls Liz's way. And that turned out to be pretty important actually! Those five note rolls are likely the link that allowed me to meet you! I wasn't happy or feeling too good at the time, but I was learning things that changed my whole life. I also bought a CD straight from David Greenburg's suitcase that had some tunes that one day I would learn. (On the E Muzeki, Sindh CD as The Greenburg Medley, if you wanna search on streaming and check out my eventual progress.) Have a great Memorial Day weekend if you're in the states! And a great weekend wherever you are. Memorial Day means Summer is here, which means we can soon put a bookmark in Vibrato and go on to Summer Bow Focus in the Dojo.

OK, Once I got past the "eye candy factor" (which,believe me, took awhile🫤) I noticed the oldest daughter's bow hold . Not sure if all French Canadian Quebecois fiddlers hold their bows like this or not. She's definately got her own thing going on here.ttps://youtu.be/AF3TgdBIGMk?si=sPnsvlBBNHdHNoIq

Goodbye conventional bow hold. It's been 6 months and I just can't get acclimated to your standards. Im fed up with not being able to mange bow bounce, straight longbowing and overall bow control so i think i shant persist in struggling with you any longer. You leave me no alternative but to switch over to the Charlotte Le Blanc/Quebecouis fiddler bow hold. The conventional bow hold might work for some violinists but not for this "non-conformist/wierd artist grouchy old Hollander". I'm going to have to "breakaway" (because ,as the late,great Gary Richrath put it: "What's right for them may be wrong for you"). Ill keep working on all the rest of the WAD foundation stuff though. Pardon the torn up kitchen folks. I'm knee deep in a "DIY kitchen cabinet, house renovation".

If you’d like to set a baseline, post a short video in the 🥋 Dojo: Vibrato 2026 thread. You could include: • A small vibrato attempt • A bar or two of an easy piece • A bar or two of a stretch piece where you’d like to add or refine vibrato Everything is optional. You can skip the video entirely - or film one just for yourself. Remember: the Dojo goal is always progress, not perfection. This season might be your vibrato breakthrough. Or it might simply be the moment you gain clarity, relaxation, and better left-hand awareness that sets up your future vibrato. Both are wins. 🎻💪 Jenny