Complete Beginners Guide to Fiddle/ Violin - Lesson #1 

I started with drums, guitar, bass, ukelele, and now I'm working on keyboard and my violin comes in today! I want to learn EVERY instrument I can before I die, haha.

Wow

Me too! I'm 54 and have always wanted to play. It's never too late!

Me too got my violin Saturday Feb 2024 I'm SO STOKED....i wanted violin When i was 8....im 59 it's my bday 🎂 51 years later WOW

I'm 52 and just got my first violin yesterday too. Great lesson.

Same😂

Same here 😂😂

Same 🎉

Same here. Had to play at a school Christmas program and promised if they made me do it, I'd never pick it up again. Well, now I'm 67 and wish I never quit.

Ha! Yes I wish I’d caught on to that one before making this vid. I’m from New Zealand though 😊

That’s actually how I remember it. 😂

I love how someone who knows what he's talking about comes to criticize another on a training video... 🤣🤣🤣

@@adrianyee6575 what are you talking about

Actually he is from NZ.

Thanks, glad it’s helpful!

@George Jackson I've been a guitarist for 30 years, and the mechanics are so very different. I really have to work on muscle groups I can usually ignore with guitar, and change my grip on the bow naturally (instead of knuckle-dragging the heel like a pick in a muted grip) The wiper stretch alone was like unlocking a new skill! Thanks much!

@@mikec6840 You ain't wrong there, Mike. Am also a guitarist, on rythm. As I mentioned in a comment above...I hope the positions on my mandolin help me somewhat despite holding the violin off my neck...should be fun.

Good luck! Hope these vids help 😊

That's awesome! I'm hoping to get a violin once I've saved enough money. How's learning been going, now that it's been a month for you?

Glad you enjoyed it!

Fantastic! Hope it started you off good.

im happy

This is a tough question. First of all you should be able to find a pretty good first violin for your price point, maybe try contacting a shop that specializes in violins and talk to them. A good example would be “the violin shop” in Nashville, maybe you can arrange to buy one of their beginner models from afar. Good luck!

Tower Strings also has quite a decent violin with accoutrements.

Hi there, it’s made by an Australian Luthier named Lance Scott in 2009.

You might look for a used fiddle. I did. I got a good deal on a $500 “kit” for $260. It will be good enough for me for a couple of years, at least.

A lot of left handed folks play violin the conventional way, in fact your left hand does a lot of the hard work playing “right handed”. However, if it’s just not comfortable and you want to try playing left handed, yes you’d just switch sides so your left hand would become the bow hand rather than the hand putting fingers on the strings. Some left handed fiddlers do teach themselves to play on a right handed strung fiddle, that is the strings are still in order from left to right GDAE. I’d advise against restringing a regular violin left to right EADG as there are generally structural elements such as sound post, bass bar and carving that are set up for the pressure of the strings to go one certain direction. But you can get someone to realign these things for a left handed instrument or find a left handed instrument for sale. So those are your options, good luck!

I’m from New Zealand actually but live in Nashville, TN in the USA these days. 🙂

@@GeorgeJacksonMusicI love Nashville. Ever been to the Station Inn?