E minor scale on the violin is easy to learn and a great place to start if you want to play pieces in a minor key. You may encounter three versions of any minor scale: the natural, harmonic, and melodic. But today, I am focusing on the E natural minor scale. E Minor Scales, Arpeggios [...]

I'm so excited to share my list of the best violin concertos with you! A violin concerto is an extremely difficult work for a solo violin with an orchestra. These are some of the trickiest, most beautiful pieces of music in the world, and are what many of us hope to aspire to. What goes [...]

A comprehensive guide to Italian music words, terms, and indications. As you begin learning the violin, you might wonder, "why there are so many Italian words in my music?" And, the longer you learn and play written classical music, the more Italian music terms you'll see! It's important to know what they all mean so [...]

One of the most foundational ideas you should learn as a beginning musician is how to read the time signature in music. The time signature, or meter, tells us the number of beats per measure and organizes the sound on the page of sheet music. To play written music, you’ll want to understand what these [...]