I want to get violin lessons, but my mom won't let me. She says I'm just pretending. I really want to play voilin, but I don't know a way I can get them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Beg your mom to let you try it like for a month. Tell her it's important you must learm. Play the violin seriously and make sure you improve greatly. Then, she will let you learn the violin for sure. I think you feel left out so tell your mom that. Tell your mom exactly how you feel if you don't get to learn how to play the violin. I'm sure it'll work. I used this formula before. You are just like me so I understand how you feel!\n\nGood Luck!
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Once you learn other instruments it's not hard to learn violin. YOu need a good beginning book for violin. If you can get a book with a tape, that is even better.Read all instructions very carefully, and go slow , step-by-step.\n    If you can get someone to show you the first few basics, how to correctly hold and correct bow hold and how to tune it. that is better and care of the instrument.\nAll of that info should be in a beginner's book, but a person can give lots of pointers that will help. \n   You could first hold it guitar position and just learn how to space your fingers to play a song, after you learn where to put your fingers to play notes you can try it in violin position , under your chin. remember to hold violin up, parallel to floor, not down at an angle. Also, your left arm wrist and forearm is not to touch the neck of the instrument, Your thumb does. Your left hand fingers come around to the top of the fingerboard.A book should show pictures of the correct positions. \n    Even though the guitar has frets, there are simularities.Use your ear to see if you are in tune while playing, since you already have some music experience.
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Start out with a classical with nylon strings, its kinder to teh fingers!  :D
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I am a complete klutz who can't hold a pencil without dropping it and I learned to play lead guitar in a surf rock band okay (NOT good, mind you, but ok) in 6 months.  I put in a LOT of hours but we're talking fast picking lead, not rhythm guitar.  I learned both on acoustic and electric.\n\nSo, I can quite honestly say if I can do it anyone can do it.  The hardest thing with an acoustic guitar (more than an electric) is buidlign your callouses.  You'll have to build up some major callouses and get so your left hand and right hand will work independently.  That isn't as hard as it sounds.\n\nThe truth is in this saying by the man Beethoven chose to teach his nephew:  "Practice is the great magician who not only makes apparent impossiblities performable, but ever easy."  Carl Czerny\n\nHINT:  Don't play too long the first couple of weeks or your fingers will get too sore from depressing the strings, even on a high end guitar.  If you put your hands in warm water and think your fingertips are on fire, you're practicing too long at one stretch.  Build up time slowly.\n\nHINT TWO:  Get really good strings.  They will make your life a lot easier and sound better, too.\n\nHINT THREE: Don't be discouraged by what seems like failure.  One day you'll suddenly make a giant leap and be doing something you thought you'd never get.  Then you'll level off and think you aren't getting anywhere.  Pretty soon you'll take another leap.\n\nHINT FOUR:  When you aren't playing, do "beats" with your hands against your legs, the arm of the chair, etc.  It helps you learn to keep time.  (This I thought I'd NEVER be able to learn.  Everyone always said I had to sense of rhythm at all.  Imagine how proud I was when I took up drums and everyone sat and stared at me because I actually had a really steady beat from months of slapping furniture and my body to anything playing on the radio!  YAY!)\n\nGood luck!
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OK! here have mine! I gots loads of them! And here's a free lesson! What you do is you hold out your left hand and curl up your fingers like you see the guitar players on tv do *sigh* and pretend like you're holding a pick in your right hand and strum!!!!! Can't you just hear the beauty? lol and then you jump up and down and move your hands all around and *~TA DA~* you've become the most beautiful princess at the ball! just kidding what I meant was ~*ta da*~ you're the rockingist freakin rocker on the planet! Good luck! And take care of my air guitar; she's a beaut! lol have a nice day! :)
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If she shows significant interest, get her to a teacher. A teacher can inspire and work with them on a level that would help for a child that age. Its great  you're supportive. I'm stoked my folks were supportive of me, now I run a studio, thanks to that little acoustic they bought me in 1979.\n\nAlso if you just are going to teach her yourself, get some chord books and maybe a DVD to help. Pick songs she wants to learn and have her listen to them and practice. Having her ear develop at a young age is very good.\n\nBest of luck.
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k, how can she or her parents even think she can play if she is blind?!!?!?? besides, its better if shes not on cause if she is it will hurt her self esteem when she never gets to play. unless you make her think she actually joined a chess team or something then she wont feel as bad sitting the whole time.
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This happen to me in jr. high.  I told my mom,  she said, " the teacher must of really wanted you to go, maybe there was something you could of learned that now you missed out on. "  Don't worry about the teachers threat.  I did and had a knot in my stomach,  my teacher just wanted the best for me, and thought the old way of do it else would work.  The only misery I have is wondering what I missed out on learning, even if it was a lesson or two.  Every lesson is something to grow on.  So Just ignore your teachers bad method.  Nothing will happen.
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I'm sorry these people were so rude. Unless you haven't already, forget what they said. It would be especially complicated if you sang for me or anyone else (great hassle, might not be local or appropriate), but, as a young composer, I'm interested in music that you made up. If you can save an audio file, email is expedient.
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practice makes perfect. no one is perfect. why practice?\n\nim not late, everyone else is just early.\n\nYour mom
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If you check out this web site: http://passioncrane.blogspot.com/2005/10/violinist-of-hameln.html it has it translated up to around volume 14.  This web site: http://scythegp.mine.nu/faq.html is their partner, where you can download a couple chapters of it.\nIn the FAQ it says they bought it from here http://www.aclimatesolution.com/manga/index.html , where it seems (I haven't done it myself) that you can buy the books and translations for all the volumes of it (Search under Hameln's Violin). Most likely it isn't new, because the book is no longer in press.
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Hi!  I'm Asian-American, I have a college degree in music, and my primary intrument is piano. I also have a few Asian friends and non-Asian friends who went to school with me.  \n\nAlthough both of my parents were born and raised in Japan, I would say that I grew up in a non-traditional Japanese family because I didn't become a doctor or an engineer.  This is nice, but probably has nothing to do with me becoming a professional musician.  I just enjoyed it and my parents allowed me to explore it.  And usually, when you enjoy something, you spend more time doing it and you get better at it.\n\nBelieve it or not, your private music teacher's ability to teach an instrument has more to do with your ability to succeed as a musician than your parents, or anything biological or mental.  Some teachers, quite frankly, are not not trained to teach music.  Most of the time if a teacher is an amazing performer, they're a horrible teacher because they can't explain what they do.  Some teachers are better at teaching beginning students and intermediate-advanced students should seek another teacher.  So, maybe it's time to find another teacher?!  \n\nFirst I'll list a few stereotypes I've heard over the years being a musician and an asian musician.  I've heard Asian musicians tend to be technical and mechanical.  They're good at Mozart and fast music, but can't really play the heavier Romantic stuff.  Basically, Asian musicians have the emotional equivalent of a computer.  These are all stereotypes.\n\nUnfortunately, these stereotypes become truths only when people start believing them. There is no reason a non-asian kid can't play just as well as an asian kid given the same training.  Believe that and it will become true for you.\n\nMusic is a very subjective field.  Of course, this is assuming you are playing all the right notes in a way that makes rhythmic sense.  Beyond the notes and the rhythms are interpretations that are very subjective from person to person.\n\nGood Luck with the viola!  And keep up the good work.
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u can't be such a good violin player in europe there is a man called nello mirando he has lost the use of at least two of his fingers and yet he still plays the violin he has played for the queen of holland and has made several records try on the internet to find out about this man www.nellomirando.com .django rheinardt famous jazz guitarist also lost use of two to three fingers and could play so don't feel sorry for your self if u good u r good regardless of your fingers
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ur not alone!! i play the clarinet, and i practiced 4 ever and i still got 8th chair. it could be that u would be better at a different instrument. i switched to the bass clarinet, and it helped me out a lot. or maybe band just isnt ur thing. it depends. i would talk to ur teacher/conductor and see what they think.
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Wow! That was a nice present. You can take it to a music store and they will put a new string on for you. While your there you should get rosin( if your violin didn't come with it) and a tuner. You could ask for a beginner book that has pictures and instructions, if you read everything carefully you can gain some knowlege of the violin even before you get lessons. Some books give more information than others, so see what is available.Also you could ask them to tune the violin while you are there.
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Don't u just love to play piano. Well, I do. I have learned to play some songs without a teacher to teach me. I'm going to piano class starting next year January. I'm so excited. Wish me luck.
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Just practice a lot until you're confident that you sound really good. Then it won't be embarassing for her to hear you since you said she likes rock music. Also, she's your mom...don't be embarassed to be yourself with her!