Beginners' Violin Lessons - How to Choose the Best

You probably know already that the violin is unlike most instruments when it comes to learning. It requires a lot more dedication and hard work than most other instruments. One of the biggest challenges when you start out learning the violin is finding a quality, trustworthy source of beginners' violin lessons.

The most basic option is to go to a teacher. If you're doing this, it is crucial to look at the credentials of the teacher. As most violin instructors charge $30-$40 per hour for beginners' violin lessons, you need to be sure that you're getting your money's worth. Oftentimes, people make the mistake of signing up for classes and paying in advance only to later realize is that the teacher isn't very good or that their style of teaching doesn't suit the learner.

One way to make sure you're in the right place is to ask the teacher what their credentials are. How long have they been teaching violin? What have their students accomplished? Have the produced any professional players? What awards have their students won over the years? Has the teacher himself/herself ever played professionally? This is not very important but professional playing experience can help greatly.

If you do not wish to learn from a teacher, either because you do not have the time or because you cannot afford private lessons, you can choose to teach yourself to play. There are numerous books, DVDs and other media available that will make this process easy for you. You can purchase many of these online, and I in fact recommend that you do.

This is because most online shopping sites like Amazon let users rate their experience with the product and you will quickly find out whether a product is good or not. It's also worthwhile to double-check a violin learning product's credibility by doing a search about it in a search engine like Google and then see what people are saying about it in discussion forums and other websites.

And remember that just having great beginners' violin lessons won't make you a great player. You need to respect your commitment to learn the instrument and make sure that you practice everyday and never give up.