I had forgotten about Melodyne. Had not considered using it for this. You could use that to put yourself in tune

............................ I know you wouldn't do that. Would you?

No but. yes you could but sorta defeats the purpose of using it in my application.  I think as far off as I'm getting you can hear the edit anyway.  Now if someone has studio time and money riding on a take maybe something people use it for?  probably just easier to record again I would think.  But to answer it can be used to adjust pitch/intonation especially vocals which seems to be what it is mainly used for.  

I hope you know I'm kidding with you there! It is an amazing program. The last time I tried to use it was with a Tim McGraw look alike who wanted me to make some tracks for him. He didn't like how his voice sounded changed in Melodyne, so he just didn't sing the tracks that he didn't like.

One thing I have found is those small clip on tuners can be inaccurate. My tuner would say I was in tune and my teacher's tuner was reading me flat. This is a big one for a fiddler/violinist because of how it can affect our fingerings. So I guess I can't trust my tuner.

It is hard to remember to slow down. I'm better at that now, but at first I always wanted to learn to speed up my tunes right away. I started with Irish fiddling, but after a year of just that did a year of straight technique (it got boring, but was good for me). I was learning to shift, but after the nerve thing, I switched priorities. I decided I don't need to shift at the moment, and decided to focus deeper on Irish fiddling techniques. 

Bouncing around in books is a good thing, means she's focusing on what you need vs just going through the books in order. Also, at least for me, helps hold your interest.

I hear on that! Not sure what the nerve thing is, but I hope it gets better for you. Yes, there is enough in  Irish music to keep a person busy for a very long time. To say it's exhaustive is an understatement. You have you hands full in just that!

The most frustrating thing for me is I play my assignment ok in the studio, then I get to the lesson and it doesn't come out as nice, then she makes me work on it another week. I guess I'm not really good enough to move ahead.

Responding a little late, but I think going back and revisiting things is quite normal. When I started lessons after 16 years of self-teaching, the main emphasis was on correcting bad habits, so my teacher had me go back and revisit a piece that I'd learned six years earlier and had even performed as a soloist with orchestra before. The purpose was not so much to relearn the piece as to work on bowing technique while playing a suitable piece that I could play without thinking about the notes.

And especially at higher levels, even if you don't have deficiencies, sometimes going back to revisit a piece months or even years later brings out details that you didn't think about when you first learned the piece, often because your technique wasn't at the point where you could think that much about interpretation the first time around.

Were you even just a little frustrated at going back to things you thought you knew?

Don't feel bad Greg, I've done that too. I'm thinking about getting another tuner, although I have a Korg. It's difficult to see (lcd not led). I have one or two as apps in my smart phone. I am thinking now I need at least two tuners to make sure I'm in tune. I should add that I need to know THEY are accurate.

Thanks.  It's the ulnar nerve, it's pinched and out of place in my elbow. It's in my left arm, so it makes my ring and pinky finger on that hand hurt, go numb and sometimes get hard to control. So, since I didn't want to give up playing altogether (it could get better on its own or with surgery, neither has happened yet, haha) I just chose to step back from all the classical technical stuff I was learning (all good stuff, but it kept me from really playing tunes) and went into what would make me enjoy playing while I can, just in case somewhere down the road I end up with a crippled hand, I will have had some fun playing.

Sorry to hear about the nerve issue. Probably a good move to back off of anything that causes pain there until it gets better. I love your attitude. You mare making the best of it. Still a lot of material you can play!

My clip on is apparently multi-instrument.  It has a tendency to fall off.  I keep it clipped to my scroll and as you know, the scroll is not a flat surface.   I do not know where else to clip it.  It's ok... if it breaks, it is only about $10.  I'll replace it if I need to.

I experimented with a few different tuners I had to see if they all agreed. I really liked Datuner app on my phone best so far. It agrees with the Korg and is easier to see. I looked at a really nice clip on strobe tuner, even has "sweet" tunings for guitar and violin. Presets that take some strings slightly one direction of the other. Peterson Stroboclip

I seem to be doing ok using the tuning app right now. I have that one in the back of my mind to maybe look at more seriously. I want to try comparing my tuning and tuners with my teachers to see if they read the same. 

A few years back a friend of mine asked me if I wanted this contraption he found when cleaning out an old school music room. It's an old strobe tuner. Not sure if you've ever seen one. Literally a spinning wheel and strobe that stops when you reach a certain tuning. If the wheel moves slowly one way or the other you aren't in tune. I want to use it but have no place to plug it in right now.