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AnnyJ said
djroger sounds like you like to tease sales people! I love your story. It would be very interesting to hear Twinkle Twinkle played like that.
Maybe I'll get brave and post a video of it.
Ideally, I'd like to pull it off at a music store with another unsuspecting sales person!
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djroger said
The first song I learned was Camptown Races. My thought at the time, since I started playing well into my 30s, was that it was stupid and a kid's song. But, everyone needs to start somewhere and it is really simple.Speaking of Twinkle Little Star.........You can have some fun with that, too. Change the quarter notes to shuffle bowing (eight followed by two sixteenths), throw in drones and double stops, jack up the speed to 120 bpm or faster. You'll get some really confused looks if you start out playing the basic real slow and then break it out in a hoe-down! I've done this in music stores just to mess with the sales people..
XD I'll give it a try.
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I would say do both. By all means learn to play tunes you are familiar with and definitely work on playing tunes by ear. At the same time work on scales and arpeggios and practice learning and playing from sheet music as well paying attention to key changes and dynamics and sight reading. Playing in a classical symphony orchestra forces me to have too focus on sheet music (as well as following a conductors cues and timing). But I also like to pick up the violin and play tunes that I like by ear as well. Both are fun and both have their place in the proocess of becoming a good violinist or fiddler.
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honestly, pick a song you *like*. i'm very new, just started playing in january, and while twinkle twinkle and ode to joy is awesome to practice technique with, it was boring me. i played twinkle twinkle for 2-3 weeks because my teacher wanted to do staccato. i hated it. so i found a song i liked, that didn't sound too complicated, and went after it. it's nowhere close to perfect, even after a month, but it gets better every week. and i like it. i can listen to it a hundred times, and still want to play it.
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My latest "technique" practice tune is Danny Boy (Londonairy Aire). May have spelled that wrong......
Starts in key of D and switches to key of F in third part. Can't use my 4th finger due to injury, so helps in learning switch to third position and back. However, FAR from perfect! I tend to go sharp on the return to first.
Actually, still pretty ugly...........
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