Before you begin, take a short pause and congratulate yourself.

Playing the violin is a very rewarding experience and like many violinists say, you could not have chosen a more expressive, sublime, and fun instrument to play other than the violin.

Or maybe, you played the violin before and is returning now to continue violin playing.

Either way, this article can help you learn and remember how to play the violin and how to stay motivated.

We have also listed some of the common benefits in playing a splendid instrument called – the violin.

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Being a beginner violinist is challenging.

You have to maintain correct positioning, proper playing form, execution, and sound quality at the same time.

Aside from these points to consider, if you are not skilled in sight reading, playing music on the violin gets even more harder.

If you are just new to playing, chances are, you find some song difficult to play.

In this article we take a look at some of the best violin songs that are pretty easy to learn and play, even for a beginner.

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We all know that violins can survive for hundreds of years. And we are not just talking about Stradivari or Guarneri or Amati instruments.

It means that any violin (including yours) can last a lifetime (or more!) if, of course, you take good care of it.

Sometimes, we are not taught essential information about our violins, especially about proper violin care.

We forget that it needs to be maintained, and sometimes, most of us get too lazy to just even wipe the dust off of the violin.

Here are 22 violin care tips from experts and famous violinists to maintain your violin in its optimal playing condition and make it last a lifetime.

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When it comes to instruments, none are as wonderful to listen to than the violin.

However, when it comes to violin tuning, many people don’t know which violin tuners are the best violin tuners, or sometimes even how to tune a violin properly.

Due to there being no frets on a violin, it tends to make a violin rather difficult to tune accurately, without the aid of a violin tuner.

So when it comes to tuning a violin, how would you go about doing that?

Before we have a look at tuning the violin using a piano, tuner, or any other means, we need to have a look at the question of “how do you tune a violin?”.

To do that, we need to understand the violin, and a few terms that surround it.

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