Violin Specific Helps

I didn’t get my start in music with private lessons.

I started playing the violin in a group class almost 35 years ago…and yet still went on to get a music degree!

I spent 3 years in group music classes before I ever took a private lesson. All of those classes were “traditional”, meaning I had to learn to read music and play lots of slow exercises before I reached anything that really sounded like a song. And 25 years ago, when I first started teaching, I taught the same way I had learned.

But almost 10 years into teaching music myself, I discovered there were better, faster ways to get the same results for beginners as the old “read first” approach. After all, we study an instrument so we can really play it…so why not start with what we’re really after, first thing?

(I do love music theory, I just save it for later these days!)