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- Do you want to take a trip down memory lane?
YES
- Do you recall the first 3-5 songs you learned on the violin?
Twinkle, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Scarborough Fair, Sad Romance
- Do you recall what scale you learned first?
I learned C major scale off youtube, and D major scale from my Essentials book with my teacher.
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Well, for violin, I didn't really have to learn scales. From other instruments, I knew the whole and half step order for the scales and modes I use. You know, that stuff like "whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half" that RosinedUp is always trying to convince new folks that it is important to learn? Well, it actually is! LOL
You know that already though, you took theory.
And as far as first songs.. Well, back in the early days on violin, I used to post audio of them here on the forum. So my first few months, for better and worse, are a matter of record.
https://fiddlerman.com/forum/s.....ice-takes/
I wince a bit, even recalling my playing back then. But at least I don't have to strain my memory to wince.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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Thank you for starting this thread. I needed this - I have progressed!!
Twinkle, Lightly Row, Song of the Wind
A, D, G
Violinist start date - May 2013
Fiddler start date - May 2014
FIDDLE- Gift from a dear friend. A 1930-40 german copy, of a french copy of a Stradivarius. BOW - $50 carbon fiber. Strings - Dominants with E Pirastro Gold string.
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DanielB said
Well, for violin, I didn't really have to learn scales. From other instruments, I knew the whole and half step order for the scales and modes I use. You know, that stuff like "whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half" that RosinedUp is always trying to convince new folks that it is important to learn? Well, it actually is! LOLYou know that already though, you took theory.
And as far as first songs.. Well, back in the early days on violin, I used to post audio of them here on the forum. So my first few months, for better and worse, are a matter of record.
https://fiddlerman.com/forum/s.....ice-takes/
I wince a bit, even recalling my playing back then. But at least I don't have to strain my memory to wince.
I listened to them all and I was very impressed. Once the thread veered off to a discussion on intonation FM said,
I really don't know much about it except that sometimes it surprised me how little some professionals actually could hear about correct intonation. Same thing with many music performance students. Sometimes the great technicians don't have such great ears.
which left me confused, because I couldn't find anywhere in the thread where the discussion changed from violinists to violists.
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