Anna Morris

This week has been pretty frustrating, I'm not going to lie. I have made some progress on the violin, such as fine tuning my notes and scales, but when I go to play a simple song, such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and other basic songs like that, they never sound the way I would like them to. I just have to keep reminding  myself that this is all a part of the learning process. I have narrowed down my music that I would like to learn down to three options: " Hedwig's theme" from Harry Potter, "Thousand Years"  by Christina Perry, and the theme song from Up. So far I am still a little ahead of schedule, so if I remain ahead of schedule I might just do all three. I'm hoping that I will get a better feel for the violin this week and not sound so scratchy! As frustrated as I get with the violin, I am enjoying to learn it again, and I think I have made some progress with it. Here is a picture of the book I am using to teach myself again. It is...

            As you all know I am learning how to play a couple of songs on the violin. This week My goal was to tune my violin, which I did through an app on my phone called Tuner Lite. I was a little worried that I wouldn't remember how to tune my violin, but after a little trial and error I finally got it tuned. After I got my violin all tuned my next task was to figure out and refresh my memory of all the notes on the violin. The places of the notes look like this: One of the hardest things about this task was getting my fingers in the correct positions so the notes sounded on tune. Your finger positioning on the violin is essential, because if your finger is in the wrong place it makes your note sound flat or sharp. I have started to review the scales, which means that I am a little ahead of my original schedule. I have also selected a few options of songs I would like to learn, but I am not completely sure yet, so I'll let you all...