It was the first time I used them for anything, I have my Concert fiddle strung up with them, so it's my deep little fiddle at the moment. I have to learn to actually play backup to make it more interesting, though, lol.

Things like that makes me want an electric fiddle, so I can try playing with different stuff like that. I'll have to add an electric fiddle to my growing wish list, haha. 

I'm not really sure what would be best. I like the idea of acoustic/electric, but then some of the solid electric have a neat look to them with the different shape. Chances are I wouldn't get a ton of use out of it, except just for fun. I've liked the look of these since they came out: https://fiddlershop.com/products/yamaha-4-string-electric-violin-yev-104

Thank you, @Kenji13 🙂

@Fiddlerman would probably be able to give you better advice on how to learn by ear. I'm a horrible teacher, haha. Knowing scale patterns help, but recognizing a note enough to find it on the instrument helps (me) more. While I could never play the piano, as a kid I could pick out simple tunes by ear, and I just carried that over to the fiddle. With the fiddle, I hold it guitar style and pluck it with my thumb to find the tune first, and then once I have it is when I put the bow to it and really learn to play it.