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| Hilary Hahn American Violinist |
Contents
1. The Motive For Learning The Violin
2. Playing The Violin By Treble Clef
3. The Tacky Violin
4. Various Violin String Set5. The Difficulty of Beating Time
6. The Difficulty of Becoming A Musician
7. My Actual Violin Performance Via YouTube
1. The Motive For Learning The Violin
🌹 When I was younger, which says, when I was full of hope, I wished to desperately play the violin and to beautifully play it on the stage even once before I die... To me, the violin was a most wishful instrument to learn. For whenever I saw violinists on the stage, it was like a beautiful movie screen. Plus a violin is small, thus is handier to carry and easier to learn than other stringed instruments; e.g cello, viola, contrabass, harp, etc.
2. Playing The Violin By Treble Clef
Besides, violin learners don't need to read the bass clef that looks very difficult and complicated. Instead, in general, violin learners read the treble clef, so that violin is a musical instrument for melody rather than for chord(multiple melodies). Of course, violinists can make sounds a varied chord at one time. However, as far as I know, those who learn other stringed instruments such as cello, viola, contrabass must read the difficult bass clef.
True be told, I'm not accustomed to reading the bass clef yet, specifically, I cannot even read it. Most people who are not expert musicians may be the same as me. I'm not a talented person to do music nor am I an expert musician.
3. The Tacky Violin
Eventually, I purchased a handmade violin that was not made by machine at a factory in bulk( in large quantities). It is typically made for those who play the violin as a hobby like me. Because violinists don't buy nor do they play that kind of tacky violin that I have now, even if it was a handmade violin. Violinists have a zillion old violin as if Stradivarius. Even they get stolen it...
Even so, I saved up money to purchase that kind of handmade violin, for I wanted to have a far better one, about that time its price was approximately $ 450 including other accessories, such as shoulder rest, bow, rosin, four strings(G, D, A, E: sol, re, la, mi), violin case, as below.
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| My machine-made violin was $35, apart from its case |
4. Various Violin String Set
There are several violin strings, a manifold quality, each of them has various characters and makes diverse sounds, but I have only used four types of stringsã…¡its brands are Dominant, Tonica, Larsen, and Obligato.
Because I lost interest in playing... Anyway, these are the Obligato strings that were wrapped by a paper cover :
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| Violin String Set Product Obligato Made in Germany |
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| My Violin Accessories |
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| Shoulder Rest 4/4 Size Made in Germany |
5. The Difficulty of Beating Time
However, I was not good at beating time with an "exact" metronome, which was the best difficult course to play the violin for me. It was not difficult to master playing violin itselfã…¡of course, not as an expert. For example, shifting position, bowing, making sound vibrato, etc.
But rather, beating time was an unconquerable hurdle to me. Even I was ashamed of learning the violin with having this flaw among other violin learners in a group violin class, after all, I gave up learning it. It is utterly impossible when someone plays a musical instrument without knowing how to beat time.
What was more shameful and more perplexed was that the "picky" and "indecent" violin teacher used to get angry at me, whenever I bumbled to beat time... It was terrible... Think about that, what if you were me, what would you do....? No one likes to be shameful in such a way...
Nevertheless, I couldn't forget the desire to beautifully play the violin with other musical instruments(e.g: piano, guitar, cello, etc.) Of course, I'm not a violinist... And I don't want to be a violinistã…¡ any kind of MUSICIANS. Having said that, I have listened to music from time to time, generally whenever I feel lonely, sorrowful, and painful to live...
Time just elapsed, at last, I learned how to play the violin to some degree, not as a pro, and taught myself how to beat time, so that the shortcoming of missing time was improved than before.
What was more shameful and more perplexed was that the "picky" and "indecent" violin teacher used to get angry at me, whenever I bumbled to beat time... It was terrible... Think about that, what if you were me, what would you do....? No one likes to be shameful in such a way...
Nevertheless, I couldn't forget the desire to beautifully play the violin with other musical instruments(e.g: piano, guitar, cello, etc.) Of course, I'm not a violinist... And I don't want to be a violinistã…¡ any kind of MUSICIANS. Having said that, I have listened to music from time to time, generally whenever I feel lonely, sorrowful, and painful to live...
Time just elapsed, at last, I learned how to play the violin to some degree, not as a pro, and taught myself how to beat time, so that the shortcoming of missing time was improved than before.
6. The Difficulty of Becoming A Musician
Now, I no longer admire violinists and all musicians, which says their lives. Not that I can play the violin as much as violinists do, it's impossible, but that I realized what a musician's life is, I was aware of their inside story directly by learning the violin I experienced. The true colors of violinists behind the splendid stage are neither beautiful nor is enviable.
They are unenviable, for they have to practice a violin technique every day lest they should be dulled to play the violin, and every time they have to perform it on the stage, thereby an inestimable tension, like stage fright, weighs down themselves, further they must graphically learn by heart many pieces of sheet music, what about pianists? Period. Pianists must entirely memorize sheet music not only the part of the piano but also the other parts of musical instruments at one time; how busy it is to beat time along with! And what incredible it is to do! But I cannot even understand its sheet music per se.
In such a setting, all musicians are not likely to suffer from a degenerative "dementia", for their brains were trained in playing music all their life long, which might be able to prevent dementia therewith. I cannot memorize sheet music at all, even a short quantity of sheet music, furthermore my brain is being aged...
Plus, musicians also have a good "quickness", "endurance", and "sensitive ear"; some of them have an absolute pitch because of severe musical training or inborn musical talents. No easiness or free charge is supplied in this inexorable world, thus we humans have to work, expecting the result of our labor. However, there may have no fruition at all! That is a punitive and cruel life we humans have to live in this world...
7 . My Actual Violin Performance Via YouTube
Anyway, this is my short music video that was cut short due to the limited volume. I played the violin with the piano accompaniment and with the singing voice that was downloaded from YouTube. He is an old German, and his song is German as well. How fascinating it is that a German accent and German voice make a sound like that... He played the piano and composed this song based on the lyrics that were written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer(1906~1945, Germany), who was martyred by Adolf Hitler.
I post some parts of the translated lyrics, is this:
Quoted :
The song was entitled "Perfect".
Yet
There is no a "perfect thing" in this world
I post some parts of the translated lyrics, is this:
Quoted :
By loving forces silently surrounded,
I feel quite soothed, secure, and filled with grace.
So I would like to live these days together,
and go with you into another year.
By loving forces wonderfully sheltered,
we are awaiting fearlessly what comes.
God is with us at dusk and in the morning
and most assuredly on every day
and most assuredly on every day
Still, matters of the past are pressing our hearts
and evil days are weighing down on us.
Oh Lord, to our souls, so scared and sore,
Give rescue, as it's that you made us for.
ã…¡Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I played the violin its song along with the German musician, it was recorded by the tacky violin $35 that I purchased and by the string Tonica in 2019 as below:
And I also played the violin in the well-known song "PERFECT" that is originally being sung by Ed Sheeran, who is an Englishman singer-songwriter. It was also recorded by the tacky violin $35 and by the string Dominant in 2018 like below:
The string Tonica and Dominant have different characters, it sounds to me like Dominant is more strong and more powerful like its own name, whereas Tonica makes the sound warmer, and deeper, and milder, more plentiful, more sympathetic. I prefer Tonica to Dominant.
The song was entitled "Perfect".
Yet
There is no a "perfect thing" in this world
as same as my music is.
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