I have been teaching my friend Abby how to play the violin! So far, she is super good at it and learning fast! I have been taking videos since she first started till now. And so far, I have only been playing for two weeks! She has had the violin for a week longer, but that does not count because she only practiced when I was there, and I was not there every day, so this only counts as she only practiced for two weeks. I put all the videos together and will now show them to you. But don't forget she has only been playing for two weeks!
We are learning the scales; basically, doe ray me fa so la ti doe. But keep going higher. I don't know if I even spelled that correctly, so don't judge! We have been learning the scales, and Abby has nailed it down!
I want her to use the whole bow, the very tip of the bow, and the frog down to the very bottom. But that is pretty hard to do. I mean, she doesn't have a scratchy noise or a bumpy noise but a clear-sounding noise. So, the next thing she can learn is to use the whole bow. She has done that before, but I want her to do it for every song she does.
Now we are learning for Christmas Feliz Navidad! I went on YouTube, and there is a video that shows numbers like 2, 1, 3 and stuff like that, so she knows what finger to put down. At first, she didn't understand it, but then she told me," Jo, the two words you said, I now understand it!" So now she is learning Feliz Navidad's song from YouTube and can play the music from the video. It's a little hard to place the third finger on the fingerboard for her because you have to stretch them sometimes, and it is hard to do, but I know she will nail that third finger over time!
Last night, we went on a Zoom call and practiced Feliz Navidad, but when she tried playing I couldn't hear her, which also happened to Abby. But I did hear her a little bit. So it wasn't too bad.
She is just so good at it!! So happy for her!! :)
We also made a funny video! Obviously, it wasn't her playing and it doesn't really look like she is actually playing the song because of the shifting and all that but don't judge!