Violin Lessons With Dr. Lewis

When I was about 11 years old, I was up in the attic one day, looking for treasure. That attic was end-to-end boxes and bags and stuff wrapped in sheets. In between a bunch of stuff was an old, scuffed-up violin case. I knew what it was immediately, because my sister played the clarinet in the high school band.

I opened the case and was mesmerized by what I thought was an absolutely beautiful instrument. It was magical, because I was certain I was looking at family history. Uncle Fred, my mom's brother, had died of cancer when he was 22, long before I was born. Mom had told us what a great violin player he was. It had to be his.

I was hooked. Over the years, I've taken lessons from some pretty good teachers. I played in high school and college, of course. And still today, I pick it up once in awhile and play. Nothing in my life has ever been more fun. Sometimes I think of what might have been, if only I didn't have to earn a living.

And then not long ago I read about some easy violin lessons, the training videos by Dr. Eric Lewis. He's first violin for the Manhattan String Quartet, and he's played all over the world. Over the years, he has taught some very, very good players.

When I read about his videos, I got excited, and I ordered them. The first thing I did was to watch them all, which got me even more excited. on every video, I saw 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 things I could do that were an improvement over how I had learned music and played.

When I finished them all, I went back to Video #1 and got started for real. I've always been confident that I could play almost anything really well and get a great reaction from people. The problem is, it takes so much practice. I just don't have the time to put into it. And why do it if I'm not going to do it well? There's no satisfaction in giving a crappy performance.

What I've learned from Lewis is, it just doesn't take all those hours of practice every day to get really good results. If you learn a few simple techniques, you can get way better results than you would ever have thought possible.

I'm as excited today as I was when I first found that old violin in the attic. If you want to learn to play the violin a lot better in a hurry, I strongly recommend ViolinMasterPro. It is a great course.

Violin Lessons at Home with a Master

Lately I've been getting violin lessons from one of the world's greatest living violinists. Not in person, of course. Who could afford that? Instead, I spent $29.95 to download ViolinMasterPro, a series of videos from master violinist & teacher Dr. Eric Lewis.

Dr. Lewis has a ton of credentials. You can Google him if you don't recognize the name. But he's known worldwide, and now he performs every day in my computer.

Sometimes I think I'm a pretty good player, but I guess a real professional violinist would call me a "wannabe." And that's true. I definitely wanna be. That's why I figured, "How far wrong can I go with this video training?" Worst that could happen was, I'd be out a
few bucks.

But now that I've been doing the training a few weeks, I have to tell you - I am a WAY better player than I used to be. And that isn't just my opinion. This last week, my wife had some friends over ... and she asked me to play for them. She showed me off to them, like I was some circus act. But don't kid yourself - I loved entertaining for them. And I love the fact my wife thinks I'm a pretty good player.

In one of these videos, Lewis shows how to take a piece you've never heard before, and just play it off the cuff ... and do a darned good job of it. I always figured that was one of the abilities that set a pro apart from an amateur. But guess what? By that definition, I'm now a pro. And my confidence level has gone through the roof.

As you can probably figure out, I'm having a lot more fun in my life right now. And some of the changes I've made are really basic. You'd think after more than 25 years of playing and a long string of pretty good teachers, I'd at least have my arm and wrist in position to get the best results. But Dr. Lewis gave me just one tip on proper wrist position that has made a huge difference in the energy I can put into the pieces I play.

The step-by-step in these videos is easy enough for an amateur to follow. But I'll bet even pros will get some valuable tips out of them. I figure it doesn't matter who you are or what you do, you need a coach. Every Olympic athlete has their own coach. Tiger Woods is the best golfer ever, and he still has his own coach. Anyone who wants to improve their violin-playing could do way worse than to have Dr. Lewis as their coach.

You can get the videos at ViolinMasterPro. I think you'll be pretty glad you did.