Beginning To Play Your Violin

The preferable way to learn how to play a violin is to first get an excellent violin teacher. Online instruction materials and instruction videos are accessible, but an actual hands-on teacher will help you to master the violin faster, for a personal teacher will know what you should be aiming for, look for problems with your technique, and tailor solutions to your weaknesses.

The next step is to study your violin fingering chart, or if possible, study music theory so that you will understand the structure of music. When you study the fingering chart, you’ll understand where to place your fingers as you play each chord.

Before you start playing your violin, do not forget to rosin your bow. If you do not how to do this, ask someone from the music store or your violin teacher to do it for you. If you do not have rosin on your bow, this will cause very little noise; on the other hand, if there is excessive rosin it will cause a scratchy sound.

Now that the bow is prepared, you must next tune your violin. This should be done once a week, or more often if you play your violin regularly. Using a shoulder pad is helpful for beginners. This will make it possible for you to hold your violin between your chin and shoulder without raising your shoulder. This way you will be able to move your left hand freely.

The last yet far most important thing to do is to practice– not just practice your violin playing, but to practice with improvement. When you practice, you repeat the same action or same ways of playing, so if you have bad habits while playing the violin, you practice committing them over and over until they become permanent.

So it is important that when you practice, you should first have your mistakes corrected, so that the next time you practice, you will not be repeating the same mistake again. This does not just apply to violin playing, but also to playing other instruments.

That’s all for now! Now, go and study those fingering charts!

By: Angela Nazario

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Angela Nazario, is a freelance web developer who enjoys writing articles about learning to play music for Music Wizard’s "Music Library" . WEB MASTERS: Using this article requires links to remain intact.

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