Hi. This is stupid to say because a violin is the most difficult instrument in the hole orcestra. By the way clarinet players are you such fools!! Dont` you know that on a violin if you are mistaken by 1/2 a millimitor you go to minor. Not like you you have fixed fingerings and blowing hard. I have been playing violin for nine years. I am good but i still do kreepy sounds. When i was a beginner too. I you clarinet players are so clever give the violin a try.

Hi. This is stupid to say because a violin is the most difficult instrument in the hole orcestra. By the way clarinet players are you such fools!! Dont` you know that on a violin if you are mistaken by 1/2 a millimitor you go to minor. Not like you you have fixed fingerings and blowing hard. I have been playing violin for nine years. I am good but i still do kreepy sounds. When i was a beginner too. I you clarinet players are so clever give the violin a try.

You won`t be a semitone out of tune with a millimeter`s difference unless you are in a very, very high position. If you did, vibrato (which I STILL can`t do!!!! This is really starting to get on my nerves!!!) would be rather... interesting.
Jen- bad clarinettists sound like ducks. Good ones sound rather different. Just like the difference between good and bad violinists.

I think that Patrick was saying that a milimeter off makes you flat, which is very true (sorry If you were replying to someone else). And I`m sure you`ll get vibrato eventually, you seem very determined!

Yes, I thought that was what he was saying. I just wanted to clarify it.
This vibrato thing is SO ANNOYING. Honestly, I`ve been playing for about a year and a half, and I play to about a Grade 6 (AMEB) standard for everything else, but I CAN`T DO VIBRATO.
Oh well, I suppose it will come eventually.

ive just started learning the violin one week ago. I have absolutely no background musical excperience at all! the sound is excruciating! but i am determine to stick at it. is there any hope? when will i begin to hear sweeter sounds? I joined a fiddle class where the teacher had me playing twinkle twinkle within 30 minutes of picking up the violin for the first time in my life. is this too fast? i thought i would be just looking at the violin and practising bow holds for weeks first!

ive just started learning the violin one week ago. I have absolutely no background musical excperience at all! the sound is excruciating! but i am determine to stick at it. is there any hope? when will i begin to hear sweeter sounds? I joined a fiddle class where the teacher had me playing twinkle twinkle within 30 minutes of picking up the violin for the first time in my life. is this too fast? i thought i would be just looking at the violin and practising bow holds for weeks first!

It might not be too fast, it depends on you. I just started teaching a couple of beginners last week who have no musical experience, and I was surprised at how fast they picked things up. I did just have them do bowing diferent rythms on open strings for this week, because I think that`s enough to start with. It`s wierd enough to have to hold up a violin under your chin, making your body do unfamiliar things, and to hold the bow properly, then trying to move it straight across the strings without too many squaks. I think it`s good to get a basic idea of that before adding left hand fingering. Maybe you`re just having trouble getting it all together at once, since everything`s new to you? Don`t worry though, you will definately improve a lot since you have only been playing for a week. And with older students, I don`t think anyone spends weeks on bow holds and stuff like that.

I don`t think it`s fast I learnt twinkle2 little star in my first class too...hehe...

The violin is the most beautiful instrament ever, all instraments can sound bad when you first start, with out a doubt, but it is the corse sound that is made when you hit a blue note that can really bother someones ears, i see whre they are coming from. the viloin is a powerful instrament, that can effect the human mind in good and bad ways.

violin is definatley one of the most difficlut to master and you dont have anywhere saying "NOTE HERE" like on a piano and because of its strange position it makes it very odd. Anyone who says that the violin isnt difficlut should be killed for there ignorance! (yes, i know thats harsh, but they make me so mad!)

I think violin is not a hard instrument to master, because I can play Twinkle-twinkle Little Star at the first time I touch the violin... maybe the violin produce odd sound but that`s acceptable.

It`s fun that we can search the notes just by our feelings.

My friend has been playing violin for two years but she still produces false notes and that makes everybody laugh

Nobody is perfect at something the first time, including your friends. If they think everything is supposed to be perfect, then I think they have already been to heaven.

Im a clarinettist. i recently started playing the violin and i love both the clarinet and the violin but clarinet still is my primary instrument and always will be.

it is not fair to be baised against all clarinettists just because 1 clarinettist made a negative comment about the violin. some people sound awful when they first try clarinet but there are talented pupils who sound great on their first lesson and sound like they have been playing a lot longer than they actually have.

the quality of the instrument your playing on also makes a lot of diffirence because a cheap clarinet sounds like a cheap clarinet.

so drop this steriotyping against clarinets!

they clarinet isnt just blowing and the right notes come out.

you shape the pitch of every note with your lip. the higher the note, the tighter your lip must be. if your lip is too tight you sqeak, if your lip is not tight enough, the note doesn`t come out.

if your fingers move off the tone hole just a bit you sqeak or no note comes out.

the violin is more difficult than the clarinet but not that much more. some people have a natural talent for the clarinet and they learn it faster while others have a natural talent for the violin.

so have respect for clarinettist too.