(Adult Beginner Milestone) Rieding Violin Concerto in B minor - Op.35 - Mov 1

3 years into learning violin starting at 22 years old. 6 months of time away, 6 months self-taught, and the rest spent fixing my self-taught behaviours.
I wanted to share these milestones for other adult beginners to see what can come from the effort. Obviously if you don't harm your progress by self-teaching like I did or having so long and so many times away from the instrument, you will get a lot farther a lot faster.
Big thanks to my prior teachers, and especially to my current teacher @Yann Eldor for what has been only 15 weeks of amazingly tangible progress, I was incredibly close to quitting before getting his help. 🤘💖🤘

[@sofiamaldonado528]

Amazing ❤

[@yanneldor]

Bravo Stephen!!!!

[@HarFin123]

Your intonation is so good! And you use the whole bow! I’d rather people play slowly but correctly than fast but all over the place, so bravo! 👏

[@cackslopper5321]

I'm performing this in about a week. Your intonation is much better than mine :) Well done

[@StAASN]

I'm told constantly that intonation is a life-long journey, I wouldn't worry. Though when you focus on really slow methodical practice, I find it harder to let intonation issues occur. Hope this helps you and good luck with your performance!

[@charlotteeime2201]

slay

[@smophos]

This is lovely ❤ I’ve just started my “adult learning violin” journey, I hope to be even half as good after three years!

[@StAASN]

I started by self-teaching for 6 months and then my first teacher spent a lot of time fixing those mistakes self-teaching. I guarantee you if you've just started and you have a teacher from day one, you'll surpass my speed 100% for sure, likely much faster too. Best of luck ❤️