Let's just say I don't know how to play any instrument at all :lol:. But I've always had a fascination for violins, do yall think it'll be hard to learn from scratch by myself? and also, whats a cheap decent one?
Probably yes, unless you've learned another instrument before (which you seem to not be able to). I played classical piano for 11 years as a young man, but the stringed instruments always seemed so foreign to me. Good luck w/ it though. Music trains your brain in ways academia cannot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkWcUtga1lw&feature=player_embedded#! I mean, look at that, that's just beautiful.
I think a violin would be really tough to learn on. Unlike a guitar, there aren't any frets which help you with finger placement. You've got to know exactly where to place your fingers otherwise you'll hit a bum note. If you really want one, i'd advise signing up for some lessons to go with it otherwise you could get really frustrated and end up hating the thing.
i suggest straight flute as a start. very easy gives some satisfaction easily and will make you learn time, notes and all the basics
i've played the flaute. I did because my parents were cheap fucks and it was the cheapest instrument to buy, I hate it because after a while it stinks.
A violin is one of the worst instruments to start on in my opinion. As bobzee pointed out there are no frets to keep you in tune, which means that for the first few months you'll sound like you're torturing a cat. You have to learn to use the bow at the same time, which isn't easy either. Taken together, this will almost certainly kill your motivation, unless you're really, genuinely committed (or are 8 years old and have parents constantly pestering you to practice, which seems to be the far more common scenario). There's a reason the guitar is popular - it's easy to pick up and bash out a few chords, which keeps you satisfied until you can do something more substantial. Monophonic instruments like brass and woodwind tend to have a sharp learning curve due to the mouth work, and playing one note at a time tends to kill the appeal of learning on your own as you can't really create a full sound. The piano is the other good starter - it's pure finger work on a linear horizontal scale - but requires a lot of physical space (and money, probably). Keyboards will suffice but they aren't as satisfying to play, I don't think anyone sets out to learn the Casio. The advantage of the keyboard is the flexibility. There's no fretboard shifting from string to string to get your head around, no fucking about with reeds or a mouthpiece. If I could trade in the many thousands of hours I've spent on the guitar and sax (and all the others) for time spent on a piano I'd probably do it, just because the range of music you can play on a piano is so broad. But that's just me, and it's also just what I want right now - ultimately the most important single thing is motivation. If you lack that, if you get frustrated with the process of learning and the end result you're looking for is just a passing thing that you don't really care about, you won't get anywhere with any instrument. Pick something you really want to learn, fight with it for a year, and you'll get somewhere. None of that sounds like fun. It isn't, to begin with. I'll end this ridiculously long post by apologising for its length and assuring you that playing an instrument well is one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done.
I don't play so I can't speak for quality but amazon has a good selection at different price ranges. http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_bm_b...F8&node=11971521&no=11091801&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER
I second this post. As a person who truly appreciates music but cannot play any instrument (due to a birth defect in my left hand, I cannot flex the middle finger, which is as you can probably imagine a very bad scenario for any sort of music training) I get the point that playing an instrument really well must be tremendously fullfilling. I also would love to play the violin, and even set out to do so by talking to a couple of professors. Setting my problems aside, almost all of them told me that with weekly lessons and AT LEAST one hour of practice every day, it takes a year to start making some comprehensible music. For me, piano is the best way to start. If you don't have too much money/space get a cheap keyboard and once you get more practice and start sounding good, you can set out to buy a real piano. Casio is your friend-to start... if you're really serious about it, you'll probably end up buying a real piano
It certainly helps to have some music theory behind you to learn violin, and you need to do it with a tutor. Learn drums, easy!
Ergonomically that sounds like a nightmare, but it might not prevent you from playing an instrument. It'd add another hurdle, no doubt - for a stringed instrument you'd need to switch fingering hands or otherwise adjust (a lot easier said than done, but great music can be played with few fingers - see Django Reinhardt just as an example), for brass/woodwind you'd probably get by as the middle finger rarely performs more than one function at a time. Don't be put off is my point, I guess. Admittedly I'm talking without knowing the exact situation, I don't mean to be presumptuous or rude.
If I could play an instrument it would be a violin. It's really shaped my taste in music (not so much towards classical but I tend to enjoy songs with violins more then others). Second is piano with cello third. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhSw7zbe90
I got an electric guitar a few years back and so far i've not got that into it and i doubt i'll ever be able to play it although i have tried.
get a student violin, they're pretty cheap here http://www.musicianvip.com/index.php/violins-violas-cellos-basses/violins/violin.html
The first instrument I ever learned to play was the violin. I played from the ages of 5 to 12. You can get starter Violins which have fret boards and dots if you take lessons you'll progress quickly if you're dedicated enough. I could play a lot of stuff on the Violin but I'm really struggling to learn the guitar. If you love them that much, go for it.
if ya ever learn how to play violin let me know I love the sound of it and I produce music i can sample something onto a beat would be pretty sick.
