Why is violin playing such a respected skill?

It is a complex accomplishment. The beginning can be a steep learning curve and getting through this proves a person’s patience and commitment. Violin lessons and daily practice gives learners and their parents an opportunity to work through challenges together. It is also fun of course!

My mission is to try to make learning simpler and easier, while encouraging students to embrace the challenge. The look on my kids faces, when they achieve a level of mastery in a piece, is priceless.

General skills you learn through studying violin:

• Develop good daily practice habits.
• Practice solving problems and working through frustration.
• Get familiar with your current weaknesses and learn to prepare in order to overcome them.
• Work with others as both leader and follower.
• A unique intersection of rigorous physical training and creative flow state. Learn to gain control over different expressive techniques, and then let go of that control in order to focus on the meaning of the music.

And some more specific music skills you will learn:

• Reading music
• Improvising
• Playing by ear
• Suzuki repertoire, since it’s so universal (for beginner and intermediate)
• For early beginners, I like to use common folk songs and nursery rhymes and encourage kids to sing them as well as play them, (maybe even at the same time!)