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📍 START HERE: How to Use This Space
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
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📌 Community Guidelines (Please Read)
Welcome! I’m really glad you’re here. This group is here to support your practice in a way that feels encouraging, clear, and sustainable. --- 🤍 WHAT THIS SPACE IS FOR • Encouragement and accountability • Sharing practice wins and challenges • General questions about navigating Jenny’s Daily Lessons • Feeling less alone in your training Engage as much or as little as you like. --- 🌿 FREE COMMUNITY + JENNY'S DAILY LESSONS Some members here are part of the free Skool community. Some are enrolled in Jenny’s Daily Lessons (Core Training or Personal Coaching). All members including free are very welcome to join in all Skool activities: - Post wins and struggles - Join conversations - Participate in seasonal Violin Dojo posts The full lesson library and structured practice paths live inside Jenny’s Daily Lessons. You can explore that anytime here ---> https://www.jennyoconnor.com/programs/ And you're still welcome on Skool either way. --- 🎻 ABOUT SHARING VIDEOS You’re welcome to post practice clips for encouragement, accountability and as a way to look back and see how far you've come. Please note: - Skool is not a technical critique forum - If someone mentions a struggle, feel free to share your experience on that - Peer encouragement is welcome - teaching is not expected Detailed technical feedback and personalized practice direction are part of the Personal Coaching option and happen outside of Skool. --- 🔥 CORE TRAINING & PERSONAL COACHING (CLARITY) Core provides the full structured system and Violin Dojo focus. Personal Coaching includes weekly personalized video feedback and tailored practice direction directly from me. This keeps Skool a supportive community space rather than a coaching forum. --- 🥋 ABOUT THE VIOLIN DOJO Throughout the year, we rotate through optional Violin Dojo practice focuses, training one core skill at a time using a clear progression. (First practice focus drops March 3)
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👋 Introduce Yourself
We have some new faces here - and a few familiar ones too - so let’s make this our official intro spot. If you haven’t introduced yourself yet (or if it’s been a while), please jump in and share: ~Where you’re playing from ~One piece that made you wanna learn violin ~One thing you’re into besides violin Brand new? Returning after years away? Grinding nonstop? Either way, pull up a chair. (Photos welcome but no pressure!)
🎻 Graham's Vibrato Project
Before we move on to Bowing Dojo next week, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of the amazing progress happening in this community. One story that stood out this spring was Graham's. What makes this especially inspiring is that much of the practice happened while deployed overseas with the Royal Air Force. Long shifts, limited time, air raid alarms going off and plenty of reasons to put violin on the back burner. Instead, he picked one skill, showed up consistently, and trusted the process. The result is in the video below. Nicely done, Graham. You should be proud. 👏 Vibrato Dojo may be wrapping up, but Bowing Dojo begins next week. If you've ever felt like your bow arm has a mind of its own, you're going to enjoy what's coming next. 😎 We've already discovered new vocabulary words like perpendicularity and shock-absorbery-ness. Are there any other bow issues or questions you have? We will soon be talking about all of it. Best, Jenny P.S. If Vibrato Dojo helped you make progress this spring, I'd love to see it. Feel free to post a before-and-after clip, progress video, or even just share one 'aha' or thing that's improved since we started. I'm putting together a community compilation and would love to include as many of your comments and videos as possible. Remember: in violin, small progress is big progress. When you focus on one thing at a time, even tiny improvements are more likely to stick - and much easier to build on in the future. 🎻
Last Week of Vibrato Dojo! Bowing Dojo starting soon
Making the leap from training to music is a bit of a thing. The biggest tip I've been sharing with students lately is: Less is more. Try two or three shakes in one note in one phrase. Just think "back back back" ~ I know that's easier said than done. But the full lock up happens when we think of vibrato as this big continuous thing with an on and off switch. When you think "switch on vibrato go now!" it's easy to freeze. Enjoy it this week. Play around with it! Play lyrics you love and try to add just a touch of vibrato shimmer. Any progress or insight is a win you can build on next time. Next week we can have an official "deload" break week. Sort of a pallet cleanser and rest period before we dive into Bowing Dojo Season here on the Skool group. (Sneak peeks are already up on the Jenny's Daily Lessons Portal for those enrolled. 👀 ) Next week please take a full guilt free violin break if you feel like it. Of course if you're on a different schedule, do your thing. The seasonal announcements are only suggestions. Also please keep in mind that bowing and rhythm have a lot to do with vibrato bridging from training into music. And those Dojos are coming up! More soon, Jenny
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