Hi everyone,

I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Bobby, and I'm from Ohio (moving to Spring Hill, FL in May). I'll be 33 on the 27th, and have been involved in music since I was about 10.  I played alto and tenor saxophone for about 10 years, guitar for around 5 years now, vocals for almost 20 years, and I just recently started violin, along with weekly lessons, for 2 months now.

I wanted to start violin when I was much younger, but none of my schools had a stringed section, and violin teachers weren't remotely close to us. So it was around October of last year that I came across Lindsey Sterling, Taylor Davis, JuNCurryAhn, and many other YouTube violinists that inspired me to pick up the violin. My wife was kind enough to buy me one for Christmas, and I began taking weekly lessons around the end of January, and I have spent, no kidding, thousands of hours watching YT videos and tutorials in addition to my lessons. This was also how I found Fiddlerman's videos and website.

I have certainly had my ups and downs already with the violin, but I expected as much. I actually want to upload high quality videos of my practicing to YT so as to chronicle my journey with the violin and track my progress. I think it's a pretty brilliant idea to do so, because as we all know that as musicians we advance, stall, get in a rut, advance again, rinse and repeat. So I think it will be nice when I hit those tough times to look at past videos and remind myself that I have improved, and that things that might later on seem easy, were once difficult and as equally frustrating.

I've rambled on enough =)

On a side note, just ordered the Cecilio CVEN-1 last night, along with Helicore strings, so I can basically practice more. Plus I have a bunch of guitar pedals, loopers and all kinds of find things for my guitars that I'd love to try out =)