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Getting Repertoire
I don't really seem to have caught on to much starting late, but I started watching some orchestras on YouTube, while going on my laptop. You can find stuff you like or are interested in. If you really know nothing, I suppose you could either take a class or read up on music online. I wish I knew what was good.
I caught on to some things studying music in high school, too, basic things like vocabulary and things as opposed to just nothing. They were special for people who played music already, though.
One thing you could do is look up the different time periods, with debatable start and end dates:
Medieval / Middle Ages Music
Renaissance Music
Baroque Music
Classical Music
Romantic Music
Contemporary Classical Music
People don't usually seem to consider music before Baroque music often, at least in the classroom in my experience in the US. Baroque music is considered very significant, though, and is taken for normal repertoire. However, I think the orchestra might have gotten bigger in the Classical period, though I am not sure. When people say "Classical Music," they mean it as a genre and not the time period I listed.
There are many people who like classical music who don't play, I think. They seem to know a lot of repertoire.
Where to Start
Suzuki seems to be good for intermediate violinists and has 10 levels. Essential Elements seems to have 3 lesson books, at least, at 3 levels of technique books. I have never tried or heard of the technique books. Anyway, we used this book I posted a picture of in college group string class. I don't know much about other books that start maybe from scratch.
Also, I already was a piano major when I started violin, so I could read music and understand also the nature of chords and arpeggios, as well as being good at the key signatures already. I don't know what it's like to start from scratch. I did want to do music when I was younger, but we also got to learn to read music in music class at school when I was age 7 and 8 years old where I lived at the time. I started piano at age 9 years old. I was also in a good choir and other choirs affiliated with church age 8-18 mostly. That helped with music and before I got into piano. I liked to sing since I was 5 years old and wanted to be a singer. It was the first time I remembered it in school that I remember.
Demographics of Pedagogy
I notice here, where I live with my dad in Orlando, Florida, USA, teachers look for when you have difficulties in life completing tasks, like they won't teach you much at all maybe, just there to talk or walk through things and get at you like they're just there to coach if you practiced or not or how much but not teach.
Perhaps, when you move, like I did, people take advantage of you and you are placed as not as advanced in some way and then the teacher does not do what you want them to or you get a new book or something.
Faithful Teachers or A Lost Cause
If a violin teacher believes in you, you will technically get ahead.
If you start too old, they may hold you back pretending you cannot get ahead. You know, maybe go back to where you were before after a break or something...
The Biggest Cut
Auditions shouldn't be something you can hold against someone, especially if you refer to master classes, where you are to present your unfinished work for fun along the way... It shouldn't be the gate to Heaven or Hell.
Turn around and you'll be surprised how people hold such private things against you. It could ruin your life. I noticed both times I had issues, I even forewarned them of my difficulties in some manner, which was probably a cut already.
Affordable
Violins on Amazon are like under $100. I paid mine off for about $900-$1000 over a series of months, like 2 years. I got it at a public music school, where I started private lessons when I was age 29 years old and now am age 34 years old. I did get a cheap Baroque violin maybe on eBay or Amazon, under or around $100, though the 3rd string broke after not very much playing. The Baroque violin is different, and I used it to audition for a camp in Germany for a week this September, though I don't think I will make it. So, the camp said there was a Baroque violin section, which is why I needed it. I also got an electric violin I need to get fixed up. They even sell electric Baroque violins, which also I think are not that expensive. The electric violin was also under or around $100, probably like an electric Baroque violin, too. Some electric violins are pretty, like made of glass or something.
Get on Instagram
A lot of people log their violin playing there. I think you can post videos of any length there, now. You should also load it to YouTube, but if you want more views perhaps try Instagram, on top of YouTube.
A great way to get ahead...
...some YouTube videos can be pretty nifty, I know like showing the fingering for 3 octave scales and where to shift to different positions. I also came across some good exercises to do with finding notes shifting, as well, from an adult beginner violinist. She showed us and linked us to exercises. Not all videos are quite that magical, but I've enjoyed beginning my sojourn/search. I just save the links in a playlist on my YouTube channel, you can also make it private. I've had 5 violin teachers and stopped to teach myself, so I'm grateful for this. I'm sure the teachers on YouTube are grateful, as well, as they get "a good turnout."
If you search YouTube...
...there are plenty of adult beginner violinists. You can make multiple YouTube channels on your Google account.
I've run across other countries, like the Netherlands and Norway.
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