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Just watched all of your videos in order, and you've definitely made some great progress in less than a year! It seems as though you are off key in most songs, though (Somewhere Over the Rainbow was on key, however, except for the wrong note Fiddlerman mentioned). I don't know much about violin at this point, but it looks to me like your fingering, vibrato, and bowing are technically very good... it seems like you just need to train your ear a bit, as the others have said (intonation)!
Keep up the good work and thanks for posting the videos. I hope to do the same to track my progress.
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Fun to follow your progress.
I thought that you fired your sister. LOL
Yes, intonation would make is all many times better. Keep up the good work.
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@Oliver: Thanks, yeah I really need to improve my intonation last few months I just focused on my vibrato.
@sdsalyer: Oh thank you so much for watching all of my videos lol, yeah my ear is not that talented to determine if I'm off tune, I think I need atleast one tape on the first and 3rd position that I commonly use.
@FM: haha! the one that I fired is the youngest one lol, so I'm working now on my bow coz it always bouncing while I'm vibrating. And I really need to put tapes on my finger board, any advice what tape should I use? I just need two strips just for the first key of first position and the first key of 3rd position.
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I've seen a few teachers online recommending the kind of tape you use to detail a car. Narrow pinstriping tape.
I've learned so much from my mistakes that I've decided to make some more.
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I think that you can hear it. I believe you should listen super intensely and maybe sing while you play. If you are too low raise your finger. If you are too high lower it. You are musical and I believe you can learn to adjust as you go.
Slow it down and fix each note one by one.
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Good video and obvious progress! 
I can't add anything - all was said.
PS I didn't stare to your tummy, i swear XD 
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I bought an electronic tuner, the kind that flashes a green light when your tuning is spot-on but I also use it when I'm playing. If I think I'm playing a note off pitch I can hold the note to see what it registers on the tuner. It also has a pointer that shows if you are too high or too low)
It cost me about £12 ($15 maybe) 
I am amazed at how old people of my age are.....
I watched all your videos, and I can definitely see progress 
Very Well done!
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Do you like it?
Lot's of people use the phone apps that do a pretty good just also. They show if the pitch is too low or too high as well.
Also worth a try. There are many of them though.
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I think the electronic device is good. When I checked the IPhone apps for tuning against it, I found they were slightly out, maybe due to speaker distortion on an IPhone
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Thanks guys, I'm thinking of record the song again to compare if I already improved my intonation.
@Terry, I'm using my Chromatic tuner now I'm playing thanks for the advice.
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Glad to help Roque,
One thing I have noticed, I picked up on one of FM's videos that he tunes the A string to 443Hz, my tuner automatically tunes the A @ 440Hz, but I am able to adjust it to 443 and it then seems to tune the other strings based on 443.
That could be why, when I come back from a lesson my teacher always seemed to had re-tuned me a little higher than my device.
This sounds a bit technical I know, but I don't know if Fiddlerman has any thoughts on this?
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We classical musicians are damaged due to hearing the 443 tuning too often in orchestras. We sometimes feel bad hearing the notes as low as they become when we tune at 440. It's like watching your neighbor paint his house a color that you plane and simply know is wrong.
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lol! so you have seen my neighbours house!
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I took this video seconds after I woke up (I looked so disgusting). I'm pretty excited to show you guys that I can now use my pinkie w/ a lil vibrato and I'm really sure that my shifting/slide needs a lot of work. credits to joshi3joshi
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I love it. Great progress. Keep it up and you will be great.
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I love it. Great vibrato, uses all the bow and what really impresses me, is that he can play right or left handed. WOW, what a kid.
Good shifting! Smooth and natural..
Progress is obvious! 
Thanks for the video, and congrats with your pinky =)
Great job! I like how you use the whole bow. I think practicing with the background music also helps, I need to give that a shot! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks guys!
and "thankyou very much" -pinky said
@Fiddlelestix, actually, it's just the reflection of the mirror lol, see the camera? x)
@SirRyu, yeah it's very helpful.
btw, here is the sheet that I used(http://ichigos.com/res/getfile.....f91d169d96)
I kinda play it by ear coz there's a part of the sheet w/c's different with joshi3joshi's version. But the notes are easy to find out.
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