Teach Yourself to Play Violin Like a Pro in Under 24 Hours By Scott Harber

Is it possible to teach yourself to play violin? Can it be done in under 24 hours?

In a word, absolutely!

I picked up a violin for the first time ever just over 6 months ago. Before that I had only ever strummed a guitar and most of my family would admit that I was no Jimi Hendrix. I never learned how to read music and never took a lesson in my life.

The violin is a complex instrument and one that many people shy away from due to this reputation. They think that only if they learned how to play the violin as a child would they be able to be proficient at it.

There is one factor that the study of all musical instruments have in common and that's the time requirement. A certain amount of dedication and practice time is required to get to a respectable level and this is certainly the case if you want to teach yourself to play violin.

My first concern was that I had no knowledge of music theory whatsoever and the results of my initial research online all seemed to require one to have at least a rudimentary understanding of sheet music.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

You see, the violin is an instrument like no other. It's what I like to call a "feel" instrument in that just the simple motion of drawing the bow across the strings evokes a sort of primal response in the brain that just seems to "make sense".