Can adults learn to play the violin on their own? Is it difficult?

Self-taught violin

Self-study is a kind of ability, we can study on our own when we learn ordinary textual and numerical categories on paper. While the skill category of self-study requires a strong ability to imitate, and some of the naked eye is difficult to see the direction of the hair activity, these once wrong, to go a lot of detours.

The book learning approach

A lot of violin books, will be some of the basic movements will be photographed in the first few pages of the book, how to stand, how to hold the violin. Explaining in writing what mistakes to avoid requires basic judgment on the part of the adult, a mirror, and the ability to look at the posture inside the mirror to make timely corrections if no one is there to see and point out the problem from the sidelines.

At this time, just a book can not learn the basics, and music theory, how to recognize the notes, how long to express the notes, for example: when I learned on my own, I always thought that how long the bow to express the notes, but in fact, not, some of the one-sided. You should use the value of time to determine whether the note is in place or not, and you need a metronome to correspond to more and more variations of the note, to jam the metronome "da da da da".

Musical instruments are intermediaries in the transmission of sound, there are bowing mastery, I think it is difficult to comprehend from books, I was reading a book about the biography of some violinists, all of them were parents looking for a fiddle teacher to enlighten them, or the family is a musical family. It is they know, go to the class to learn, so the method is the fastest and most effective.

E-Learning Approach

Self-teaching violin Nowadays, many people who are not in a position to do so, but love the violin, will choose to buy a violin and then watch online learning videos to teach themselves. Most of these people are as a hobby, spice up their mood. Belong to a kind of play, their own happy.

It's easy to get frustrated when you watch a video of a teacher pulling it out with ease, and when you practice on your own and can't even figure out the basics of holding the instrument and gripping the bow. Especially if it sounds bad at first, everyone goes through that process. I see that it has progressed to teaching how to do it right, step by step, with instructional videos for each step, and the need to buy a lesson pack. Some teachers are so afraid you won't understand that they are very detailed in their explanations. A lesson can easily take 40 minutes, and then you need time to practice on your own, and the night is over. However, you can only reflect on your own practice and improve it if you don't feel it's right. Self-study is like this, but sometimes I don't feel that I'm wrong, but I don't know what's wrong, and the sound is just hard to hear.

Is it hard to learn on your own?

If some people don't think it's hard, then I don't know what to say, I personally think it's hard, I took one lesson to learn how to clamp the piano without dropping it. It took me a lesson to learn how to use my right hand as hard as possible without making a lot of noise.

surroundings

That way the people around you who put up with your practicing will think it's noise and will have a hard time listening to it themselves. It's going to challenge the mindset and mental fallout, and I'm sure everyone who learns the violin does so with the mindset of I'm going to get good at it and want to play the tone I want. But that's a long way to go, because I haven't been able to stabilize it to that extent so far. If I teach myself, it will further prolong this painful period.

phonetic transcription

Because even if you follow the teacher's lessons, when you practice by yourself at home, you will accidentally practice wrongly and not be able to find out until the next lesson by the teacher to realize where you practiced incorrectly. How can you effectively recognize your own practice when you study by yourself? And I'm sure not everyone has the ear to do so.

left-hand fingering

Learning how to frame the hand, how to press the exact tone, pull it out, this degree of cooperation, also need to practice for a long time, self-taught? The violin is not like the guitar, there is a small grid for you to separate, where is this tone? I can't find it. Can I learn it by myself? I thought I had it right, but the teacher heard it a little lower. I can't hear it myself.

in conclusion

To summarize, I think it's hard to teach yourself violin. If it's just to play casually and play loudly, then feel free.