Getting Started With Your Violin

The best way to learn how to play a violin is to first get an excellent violin teacher. Online instructional materials and instructional videos are available, but an actual hands-on teacher will help you to master the violin more quickly, for an actual teacher will know what you should be aiming for, see 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 haven't learned how to do this, request for someone from the music store or your violin teacher to rosin it for you. If you do not have rosin on the bow, this will make very little noise; on the other hand, if there is excessive rosin it will make a scratchy sound.

Now that the bow is prepared, you must next tune your violin. This must be done once a week, or more often if you play your violin regularly. Using a shoulder pad is helpful for beginners. This will enable 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 without restriction.

The last yet far most crucial thing to do is to practice-- not just practice your violin playing, but to strive for 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 again and again until they become ingrained.

Therefore, it is important that when you practice, you must first have your mistakes corrected, so that the subsequent time you practice, you won't be repeating the same mistake again. This does not just apply to violin playing, but also to playing any instruments.

That's all for now! Time to study those fingering charts!

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