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Can an Adult Beginner With No Music Experiance Learn the Violin?
I am 26 and me and my wife are living in different states due to work. I want to learn to play an instrument and she plays the violin and said she would give me one to learn with.
I have never played an instrument, and do not know how to read music. Can I at this age really learn this instrument? How difficult is it? Will I ever be able to play by ear?
Tags: Learn Violin, How To Read Music, Adult Beginner, Plays, Adult Music
The violin is actually one of the more difficult to learn. I started playing an ocarina two days ago and already I know several songs. I can’t read music, but I play by ear.
It’s never too late to start learning a new instrument. It will provide you a lifetime of enjoyment.
of course its not impossible, but yes, it will be harder if you have no musical experience. But if u can get down the basics, practice, and follow your wifes advice, you’ll do fine!
ps. I played the viola for 3 years and made it into my district orchesta. it CAN be done!
MOST definitely!!
Yes. With enough determination.
However it is a difficult instrument to play. I speak from experience.
Playing by ear takes talent as well.
You may want to think about getting a private instructor to teach you the basics, as I doubt you could learn how to play yourself. But who knows!?
you can do it.. it takes perserverance and hard work.
What I have found over the years is that we humans tend to limit ourselves and make ouselves believe we can only do certain things. I don’t think age has any bearing on whether or not we can do something we want to. I think it is a matter of applying oneself to the task and giving it all you can to get it done. Part of our reason for being is to develop talent. We are given some but it is our duty if you will, to gain as much as we can in this journey we call life.
Absolutely! And don’t let anyone tell you different! I am going to retire soon, and one of the first things on my list is to take either piano lessons or guitar lessons, something I’ve wanted to do all my life. At 26, you can do anything you want to!!! Go for it!!!!
It would not be hard to learn , if you get a beginning violin book. Follow the instructions carefully and look at pictures carefully to learn to hold violin properly and the care of the instrument. then you should go through the book to learn the basics. Learn the notes and after you learn where to put your fingers and how far to space them. YOu can then learn to play by ear. I play by note and by ear. but starting out with a book to learn the basics will make it much easier to learn.
Age is no boundary for learning a musical instrument.
Large hands for a violin, however can be a pain in the butt.
The best thing for you to do would be to get private lessons from an university professor on violin, or a music store as well. These people will be more than qualified and probably the best to teach you, being that you are an older ‘budding’ musician.
Before getting into lessons, feel free to get a hold of any beginners method book, to get a grasp of notation and fingerings you will see as well.
As for a method of instruction, the ‘Suzuki’ method is a great way which many string instructors will use, and is used also between other instruments as well. Further, Suzuki relies on teaching by rote, so you learn the music by ear before learning things on paper. That should help you to learn by ear tremendously
The difficulty of learning the instrument, if it is your first wont be too hard once you overcome the initial schematics of learning finger placement, strings and what not.
Best of luck.
Ohh. for your first lesson.
Your strings are going to be: (All plucked on straight beats, 4 per string)
–E: Eek, Eek, Eek, Look at all the….
–A: Ants, Ants, Ants Digging in the…
–D: Dirt, Dirt, Dirt Digging in the…
–G: Ground, Ground, Ground, all the way to…
–(Need a Cello for this one): China.
:)
Yes! I find it refreshing that you’re picking up something new past high school!
Yes, it is very difficult. But it depends on you. It depends on how much you want to learn it, how much you want to grow with music…
If violin is something you’ve always wanted to play, you’ll have a great time learning. Go for it!
The playing it by ear is something that is more of a born talent or not… You may be able to, you may not… that will come with time.
Good Luck!
I am the Drum Major of a High School Band in Texas. Trust me, I have seen MANY people pick up a instrument one day and within a week they can already play 3 different songs pretty well. Now, these songs are like Mary Had a Little Lamb and Pied Piper, but it is pretty good for someone who just started 1 week ago. As long as you have confidence in yourself, then I am almost positive that you can learn it. It can be extremely difficult if you make it that way. All you have to do it practice, and you should be fine. Yamaha makes some great beginner books for all different kinds of instruments. You should look into those to not only advance you in learning the instrument, but for a couple of popular songs that you could learn. As for the playing by ear, thats a talent that you just develop after playing a instrument for while. I have that talent, and it is really handy. But, the drawback is that it doesn’t really teach you the music like the way you should learn it. Look up methods of learning to read music on Google or Yahoo!, and there a bound to be great methods on teaching you how to read music. Good Luck!
Oh, you are still very young. Besides, my father-in-law took up the piano at 65 when he retired and had about 20 years of total and complete enjoyment. He practiced every day. He believed it kept his mind active and I’ve heard that before. I played the violin as a child and loved it. I don’t think it’s that difficult if you bite off small chunks and set goals. A competent teacher would be very helpful but you can learn the basics on your own with books. Piano is a bit easier to self-teach. I did that later in life and didn’t find it hard at all, but I really practiced a lot. I’m 60, by the way, so you can see it’s never to late to learn.
Yes you can learn, our brains remain very plastic throughout our lives, and we don’t get to a point where we cannot learn.
well i can help a bit here. i play the viola(its similar, doesnt have the E string, has a C and its like an octave or so lower) no experience at all? well it is difficult at first. with learning the proper bow technique, the posture(its a killer at first but you’ll be able to drill it into your brain), the notes are hard for begeners too.
what’d i do with the reading music is one string at a time. start with learning your highest string(E), the notes. how to read them. like practice by reading the note and playing it so the fingering,note and pitch become farmilliar.
good luck!
yes you can but the violin is a very hard instrument to play . [im 14]I play the violin and im on grade 2 however i began at the age of 9 .
you can learn to play it… but only in a basic way… you will only achieve mediocrity… i don’t say this out of cruelty, but from experience… it is generally accepted that the violin is the hardest instrument to play. you will rarely find a virtuoso who didn’t begin playing before the age of 10.
but don’t lose hope… even if you can’t play well at all, it’s still fun to squeak out a simple tune