How hard to learn violin?

ViTong4
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:41:33 +0000

I play violin, piano, and am attempting to teach myself guitar [badly]

I found the violin much easier to pick up because of

1. only reading one line of music and its all in treble clef

2. you already know how to read notes so you save quite a lot of time

The difficultly with the violin is that you need to tune it and there are an infinite array of sharps and flats. The piano gives us the illusion that each note only has one sharp and one flat; however, with the violin, you need to practice and develop a good ear to all the different notes.

How long will it take to master the violin : … a long long time. You’ll probably need to study for many many many years ~ 20 + to only begin to ‘master’ the violin.

As for just getting good enough to have a decent placing in your school orchestra? You can do it in a year or two with a good amt. of practice.

Proficient on difficult pieces … uuh… what’s your definition of ‘difficult’? Plus, it’s different per person. Some are prodigies and they can pick up a new instrument frighteningly quickly. Some people like the semi-tone-deaf me just slowly plod along and hope no perfect pitch people beat me up.