1.1 Genius Hour

            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 know which songs I will be learning for sure next week!

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