From Jenny’s Patreon page! Enjoy !! I will enjoy this at some point after I get me a piratey hat 🏴‍☠️

What would be your words of wisdom or top tips to someone just starting violin or thinking about it? Do you have any secrets or things looking back that helped you keep from getting stuck? I was thinking there are 5 main pillars of adult violin learning. But after a little convo here with @Graham Acres and @April Ellis I think we may have just discovered #6. (The convo resulted in it appearing that while everyone else is playing Holly Jolly Christmas, both pirate and vampire music will be a focus here this December 💪🎻. Go us haha) This is my running list of main “pillars”: 1) Community (yay Skool for making this possible again) 2) Bite sized video lessons 3) Alternate working on techniques and songs 4) Play music you like 5) Asynchronous support (like VideoAsk or Skool so you can get feedback from a teacher and keep progressing without having to synch schedules for a lesson) 6) Do what you want 💥 I guess the new 6 goes together with 4 but it can be expanded to more than just song choice. Violin learning is notoriously rigid because it was designed for children in a high stakes time. Adults can figure out what’s working for them and not, and therefore can have total freedom in the approach. Mix and match systems, have more than one teacher, play a song that’s too hard, disregard any or all of my pillars etc, etc Then if you do get stuck, adjust. It’s not the end of the world. Anyway, now I’m preaching to the choir. Would you add anything to my pillars list?

I know it's not the most seasonal share, but it's fresh on my mind because a student was asking about it today. Thought you might also like this rare sheet music version for your collection. I've also attached Google AI's funny response. Had to laugh at myself as I was Googling for any possible link to the holidays. Long story short - couldn't find one haha!!

I'm still getting the hang of this Skool thing. So... here is the sheet music! For real this time! It says I can attach multiple things, but for some reason when I did that it bumped off the other two. I'm going to try again to also add the screenshot of me trying to find some far fetched way to connect this to the Holiday season, because I refuse to make a dedicate post just for all to see me getting completely shut down by AI. 🤞😂

Hey guys. I have been MIA for a hot minute. I have been dealing with a family emergency and have been hiding from the world while healing from that. My violin Liam has helped me SOOOOOO much. I ask y'all to send prayers and happy vibes while ee continue to heal. I promise to be back soon. Until then. 🎻🎻Fiddle on🎻🎻