Master Violin Playing
Learn Music Skills and Playing from Scratch
What you'll learn
- Learn the basics of playing the violin
- Understand different playing techniques
- Apply a variety of musical maqams
- Master reading sheet music
- Play simple musical pieces
- Manage your time while playing
About this course
This course explains how to play the violin from zero, and it is designed for beginners who want to enter the world of music through the violin. You learn the basic playing skills and the different techniques, then learn to read sheet music and musical maqams, and how to apply what you learned to simple pieces. The course moves gradually from the basics to practice: you start by understanding the instrument and how to handle it, then move on to exercises that build your skill step by step, until you reach playing musical pieces. It suits anyone who loves the violin and wants to learn it, whether you are a child, a young person, or an adult, and whether you have never held the instrument or tried it a little. No previous music experience is needed, and all you need is a violin and a willingness to practice regularly. The course focuses on hands-on practice with every new skill so that it sticks. By the end, you will be able to play the violin with confidence, read sheet music, understand the different techniques, and compose simple pieces.
Expected outcomes
- Develop basic violin playing skills
- Understand various playing techniques
- Learn to read musical notes
- Increase confidence in musical performance
- Explore different music genres on the violin
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Course content
1Mastering Piano Playing
20 lectures
- Parts of the Piano and Basics of Playing It10:27
- Basic Notes on the Piano
- Exercises for the Right Hand
- Exercises for the Left Hand
- Exercises for the Right and Left Hand Together13:02
- Playing the First Melody on the Piano with Metronome and Sheet Music26:54
- Raised and Lowered Notes on the Piano (Sharps and Flats)7:47
- The Meaning of Scale, Number of Scales, Their Notes, and the Phrygian Scale on the Piano with Songs16:58
- The Major Scale on the Piano12:38
- The Natural Minor Scale on the Piano13:06
- The Church Modes8:28
- The Harmonic Minor Scale on the Piano14:25
- Basic Chords14:12
- Chord Circles and Their Relation to Scales10:11
- Progressions and Intervals12:13
- Rhythms (Tango or March Rhythm)7:13
- The Eastern Divided Rhythm4:29
- Some Rhythms and Arpeggio on the Piano24:20
- Piece La cumparsita5:24
- Increasing Playing Speed on the Piano - Piece Für Elise7:36
Instructor
Artist Samih Ali
