A serious student spends much more time working on their own in a practice room then they do with a teacher or coach.
Be your own teacher, learn to analyze your playing, listen very carefully to the sound that you are producing. Every single note is important no matter how fast the passage is. Music is not just notes and scales. It is expression and emotion. Learn to play phrases in the same way that you speak sentences to be expressive. Take advantage of the assets available to you such as dynamics, note lengths and vibrato in order to express yourself. Be extremely conscientious of your intonation. Spend 90% of your practice time on the things that don’t sound great, slowly and analytically, and 10% putting it all together so that it sounds simple.
Pierre Holstein
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Have you looked at threads that were here before you joined? The very first topics? Take a look and reply and start them up again. Good conversations were had. on and off topics.ELCBK
For Grandpafiddle – I did notice, quite a while ago. Then they reappeared, didn’t know they were gone again. I think reviews help.Mouse
It was weird. I don’t know why I thought about that, but in the backroom, I got to thinking when I was looking around. Then thought about it some more, and tested it out. Voila!Mouse
Yep. The topic title was the same as the forum room name. You cannot give a new topic title the same name as the forum room. I tried it elsewhere and the same thing happened.Mouse
Oooh. I had an idea as to why GP-Fiddler’s post did not work. I tetsed my theory. If it happens again, I will know why. 😁Mouse
For Grandpafiddle – I had to delete it. There was a symbol beside the bubble that looked like maybe you logged out before it posted all the way, maybe. So, it maybe got caught in lala land. I could be wrong.Grandpafiddle
Hi Mouse. Maybe I did something wrong when I posted it? Maybe you can fix? If not, delete. Not really important. G’paRecent Forum Posts
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Dynamics, note lengths, vibrato, intonation, spending time working on things that don’t sound great all sound great for someone who has had a teacher. Can you get to a point with a music background where youcan do these things without a violin coach or teacher?