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?

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🎻🎻

Hello everyone ! I’m targeting you Americans here for knowledge!!! I have been kindly invited to my American neighbours for Thanks Giving. ( First time for this and I don’t know what to expect or wear ect… all advice will be taken in ) She plays the piano ( I would say she is a pro) and wants to duet with the violin for Xmas , she is eyeing the Michael Buble stuff. I’m an introvert performer and only play with an audient ( my son), whom has no choice but to listen, haha. So I would love some song suggestions to play for these two occasions or even practice ( I’m not expected to play for Thanks giving !) All advice is appreciated !! Thank you for your time !!

https://youtu.be/AbrB5qnI3vM?si=859g0XdU8fAXtjbe I waited till the end of the day to see if anyone else (besides me) would be aware of this and do a post and no one has so here it is. It was his birthday today. I wouldn't have bothered with this but he is, after all, the Grand Daddy of us all (metaphorically speaking) and ,well, let's face it it folks, regardless of your skill level when it gets down to it we're pretty much just a bunch of "beggars & thieves" riding his shirt tails. Fiddle on good people. ✌️🫶

I am sorry these are slightly out of order. I went to hit the expand button and accidentally hit the X and had to reupload. But after a few days, and finally remembering where everything was, I give you The Lord of the Rings medley!!!