Hello all. I want to publicly thank Fiddlerman for this site and the resources he has posted on it. I took the liberty to read through the entire PDFs of "Sevcik Violin School for Beginners I & II" over the weekend. I read it like a novel and enjoyed it very much. I learned so much in so short a time! Sevcik really lays it out flat. Even though it's mostly in German it helped me easily learn the essentials in violin music reading, bow placing, and finger exercises! Now the hard part will be to put my new knowledge to practice as I train my body to do what my brain is thinking. If I really put my effort into it I may actually get through it with my violin in 9 months to a year. I look forward to it! This is going to be a great year! I like the idea of having a guide to work through and not just making up my practice time because I don't have a clue what I'm doing.

On a side note I was going to enter the Christmas program of Silent Night but chickened out when I realized while practicing I couldn't keep a steady beat even though it was as slow as 60. LOL! Hence the reason for my new years resolution to play along with Sevcik for the next 12 months while I get more comfortable with my new passion.