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Beginner progress (day 90) - Etude (Suzuki book 1)

This piece took me off guard, thought it would be simple but was by far the hardest one for me up to now.

This is the first Suzuki piece to use a different hand position, 2nd finger is flat on A and E strings. So I had to work on intonation a lot (still need btw) and strings crossing a bit.

Then I noticed that something was off, it was lacking musicality. So I tried to improve phrasing and although it sounds better now Im still not okay with it. Some parts looks too "linear", I think some notes needs emphasis and/or a really small space between them and the next note.

In the last videos I got some advices about my bow wrist being too hard, and I started to work on it. Don't know if it's visible here but it begun to move a bit haha

Thanks a lot for anyone who tries to help people around here! 😄

u/Mix_the_Mix — 24 days ago
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Beginner progress (Day 76) - Allegro & Perpetual Motion (Suzuki book 1)

I feel like I've improved a lot recently 😄

u/Mix_the_Mix — 1 month ago
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1 month at the violin! Made a video of my progress :)

Hey guys! So theres about a month since I pick the violin as my first instrument. I made a video of my progress and would love to hear some feedbacks.

First of all, I'm self-taught learning from youtube, and violin is my first instrument. I plan to look for a good teacher in future, I can't right now.

I took this first month in a experimental way, trying different things that I'm aware that are not recommended for beginners, like vibrato and shifting, even using all fingers since day one.

For now on I plan to continue Suzuki book 1, learn scales and study some music theory. I'll focus on foundations instead of trying stuff (even tho sometimes I just can't help myself hehe).

I've put some effort in playing but also watched a lot of videos about posture, bowing, left-hand etc. That combined with recording myself certainly made a huge diference on my improvement.

The violin is a beginner violin, but it's a good one I guess.

Maybe there is more important things that I didnt mentioned so feel free to ask anything.
Thanks!

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u/Mix_the_Mix — 3 months ago