Let ne take this opportunity, Beth, to tell you my violin playing has improved immensely since I began using your videos. I am now just a few months away from age 90 and I realize there are very clear limits to what I can expect to achieve. However, for the first time, thanks to your…
Hi Beth-I’m so pleased with your effective teaching! Many, many thanks. You are patient, sooo explicit, & passionate about your students gaining skill to play violin. I’m glad I signed on with you. Thank God for that. I appreciate you. What an enjoyable way you teach! I’m learning to play violin. Diane McKoy
I just joined your websight and I’m hopeful that it will make a big difference in my progress. I got my performance degree in clarinet from Indiana University. I went to school there the same years that Joshua Bell was a student of Joseph Gingold. I fell in love with the violin as a child…
May I first start by thanking you for all the work you’ve put into ViolinLab. I became a member last year and have been teaching myself to play through your videos. They have been such an enormous help to me as I am not able to take lessons from a private teacher at this time….
I wanted to write to say I’m really enjoying your video tutorials. I am an absolute beginner who has had only a handful of lessons many many years ago. I live in Tokyo, and I haven’t found an english speaking teacher yet who doesn’t charge the earth, so for now, its just you and I,…
Dear Beth: You have the most detailed and well cataloged video violin lesson encyclopedia on the Internet. I am studying under Gwendolyn Taylor, the Associate Concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra. She has seen your work and considers it an excellent resource in addition to my weekly lessons. I am getting towards the end of…
I’ve watched many instructional violin videos, and Violin Lab is clearly the most comprehensive and well-organized program. I like your in-depth discussion of topics, and your philosophy that there’s no “one size fits all” best way for many techniques. I also enjoy your having other master teachers present their own points of view, tips, and…
Hi Beth! I just became a member of ViolinLab, and I’m excited to learn more so I can pass the information along to my students! I’m a new high school/ middle school orchestra director. As a trained percussionist, I have little experience with string orchestra, other than playing timpani in college and as a fill…
Dear Beth, I think you have rescued me from a ‘slough of despond’! A rudimentary beginning, now over fifty years ago, got me started onthe violin and for my 60th birthday I bought myself a really goodinstrument and began again with enthusiasm. I am most fortunate to live in a truly tranquil paradise in isolatedwooded…
I want to thank you so much for the violin tutorial site, violinlab.com. Today I failed again to find the right teacher (I’m 47) – then, within hours, I found your site, through a YouTube video. Thank God for the modern age, showing us through technology what is possible for learners nowadays! Violin lessons have…
First of all your site is just amazing, and has been a Godsend for me. I have been playing unsuccessfully for 3 years. None of my teachers have given me the information that I received in just a few minutes on your site. I now have hope of being a descent violin player now due…
Words can’t express my respect and appreciation for you. I am really thankful for the huge efforts that you put in teaching others. I and all your students are the luckiest people in the world to have you as a teacher. I owned a violin for along time and I couldn’t learn how to play…
