All About Violin Classes and Teachers
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metz:
I know teachers who are lefties themselves. Got problem, meh?Honesty:
My DD is a lefty and was told it is difficulty to learn violin. Is it true? Any adv.
Did the person mention what type of difficulty? Both my kids are left-handed. No violin teachers have ever mentioned any potential difficulties to us. Neither have they encountered any problems (for being left-handed) in their learning so far. -
Honesty:
My DD is a lefty and was told it is difficulty to learn violin. Is it true? Any adv.
Now that you mentioned it, DS is a lefty. But when playing violin, he is like any other person, using the right hand for holding the bow and left hand for the violin.
No issues so far. -
The difficulty is the coordinaton. DD now trained to use right hand to hold the bow and left hand to hold the violin… is this correct?
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Aiyo, scared about all sorts of nots - have you seen symphonies whereby some violinists bow with right hand, while some bow with left hand?
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DD had 4 lessons so far (bow with right hand) and with her piano background, she tried the ABRSM Gr 1 pcs.... I must say it is actually surprising not bad. I'm tempting to let her try Gr 3 exam in Mar. wondering if it will be tough
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Anyone can tell me where to get the violin restring?
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Honesty:
My DD is a lefty and was told it is difficulty to learn violin. Is it true? Any adv.
Honesty:
Kekeke…this is really interesting. Learning to play a musical instrument is not like learning to hold a pencil to write or learning to eat with chopsticks! In fact, I think it’ll be easier for lefties to learn string instruments (violin, cello etc) because the LH finger work can be very difficult for higher grades. Bow control of the RH involves more of the wrist, elbow and arm.The difficulty is the coordinaton. DD now trained to use right hand to hold the bow and left hand to hold the violin... is this correct?
As for coordination, whether lefties or righties also same problem. -
Question: If your child hasn’t learnt how to tune the violin, and neither can you, how is your child going to learn the play the right notes? Can’t possibly wait until the teacher tune it during that half hour lesson? The entire week of practice would have been wasted efforts if the child has been playing it wrongly, right?
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concern2:
Question: If your child hasn't learnt how to tune the violin, and neither can you, how is your child going to learn the play the right notes? Can't possibly wait until the teacher tune it during that half hour lesson? The entire week of practice would have been wasted efforts if the child has been playing it wrongly, right?
Then figure how to tune, lor. Nowadays have tuner apps for downloading too. Don't need to even buy extra tuner. -
phankao:
Tuner Apps! Thanks! Does it work visually? - I am tone deafconcern2:
Question: If your child hasn't learnt how to tune the violin, and neither can you, how is your child going to learn the play the right notes? Can't possibly wait until the teacher tune it during that half hour lesson? The entire week of practice would have been wasted efforts if the child has been playing it wrongly, right?
Then figure how to tune, lor. Nowadays have tuner apps for downloading too. Don't need to even buy extra tuner.
Anyway, got any to recommend? Thanks in advance!