Get to know yourself and stretch your limits. Playing violin offers a complex challenge and brings together many aspects of living and growing.

It is a balance of rigorous physical training, which offers you control over many expressive variables, and then practice “getting into flow state,” which allows you to let go of that control in order to connect to and transmit the meaning of the music to your audience.

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.

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!)