However, utubes can only go so far, for both instruments. If faced with a choice, piano, only because the chance of causing irreversible damage to muscles, ligaments and tendons is less. Basically, playing a keyboard, the stressors are less, as both hands are doing basically the same thing. And you're sitting. One must be aware of the back, shoulders, elbows, fingers and more. How much more when we are talking about an instrument whos playing involves all these with different stressors for each hand and arm doing completely different motions.
Just standing and holding the violin under the chin takes practice. And if one does not have a professional instructor noticing any motions detrimental to the body, I cringe at the damage that can occur.
Yes, the same arguments can be put forth with the piano, but with the violin, other instruments such as flute and trumpet, one can really do harm. Non withstanding the asceticism of which sound you love so therefore pursue, ear training with the violin noted , the bonus of playing a piano and accomplishing playing a 2 hand composition quickly is a plus. I am approaching the original question basically from a standpoint of which instrument, is studied without an instructor, has the potential of causing greater harm physiologically.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What to choose? Violin or piano? Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 4 months ago. Active 5 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 55k times. I have a few questions: Is it too late for me to learn an instrument?
My choices are violin and piano. Which is easier to learn? Improve this question. You can safely tell those people to avoid a career in medicine or biology. They'll only end up killing people. It's easier for children, because their brains are in a unique stage that learns so quickly. By 25, we're pretty much out of that stage and learning, in general, takes more intentional effort.
But you'd rather try and fail than never have tried at all, right? At least, that's way I think everyone should live. You say that you want to learn an instrument,.
That's awesome and I encourage you to do so, but I suspect there is a reason why you want to learn an instrument. As my piano teacher wisely told me, some people learn because their parents force them, some people learn because they get pleasure from the music, some people learn because they enjoy entertaining other people.
What do you want to do with your skills once you have them? Knowing that would influence which instrument I'd recommend. To me the most important, actually the only important factor, in choosing an instrument to learn is to choose the one that speaks to you the most. If you ignore all the other instruments in the orchestra but the violin, if you stare hungily at them in music stores, if your heart soars when you hear a single violin note, then you should choose that regardless of anything else.
Likewise for the piano or any other instrument you can think of. I would start with piano, because it visually teaches music theory better than any other instrument. It's a great first instrument for any musician who eventually goes on to specialize in any other instrument; any musician would benefit from having some basic piano training. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.
Improve this answer. Jacob Swanson Jacob Swanson 1, 4 4 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. You could always learn both! I think starting on piano would give you basic theory, so you don't have to learn that and the violin at the same time. I think the piano also makes it easier to visualize the theory.
You'll find you know the notes because you understand what fits and what doesn't. On violin, you'll end up mostly memorizing for a long time. Sorry, dude. SE cannot replace a teacher , if the guy is starting from zero , unless you are willing to go visit him on weekends, listen to him, point out mistakes he isn't even aware of doing and help him with posture and physical aspects of playing before he gets hospitalized with tendinitis.
I'm not an expert, but doesn't much of the violin repertoire expect multiple musicians? For someone alone, a solo pianist can hold together a performance or back up a vocal performance of some kind, without requiring additional instrumentalists.
It is a resource for people to ask about things they don't understand in theory or on their instrument. Show 7 more comments. I will throw in my own take as I differ from the other opinions on a few points: Like everyone says: go for it.
Some obvious differences that you may want to think about: violin is portable; a piano isn't. At the end of the day, go with your gut feeling. Both instruments are marvelous. Lolo Lolo 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. I don't play violin, but I do guitar and piano.
I've never thought about the violin being more intimate than the piano, though now that I think about it, I believe I agree. These are good comments on practice 3 hours of unfocused practice for a beginner sounds too much to start with! Add a comment. For question 1: It's never too late to learn anything. For question 2: I play guitar and I learnt it alone. And for your information, as I have learnt in my life, 'Giving up is not an option" For question 3: It depends.
It's not about my muscles or bones are weak. But rather because some people says that my fingers will not be flexible enough compare to someone for example that played piano since a child because his fingers will be developed as more flexible and fluid in motion. Yes I plan to watch on youtube there are a lot of videos tutorials there. You have a point about not going for easier instruments.
But I find it quite hard to choose because those two instruments produces different but both wonderful sound. What I am worried is the steep learning curve — aozora. I don't think you will have issues related to flexibility in your fingers. Just practice hard and you'll eventually see the beauty of your talents within no time.
And as Jacob Swanson mentioned in his answer, yes, violin needs more attention and precise hand movements compared to piano, but still, what I suggest is why don't you just try both instruments and see which suits you the best. You'll feel it when you are playing it. I play both now. I started violin when I was 6 and piano when I was 8 opposite of most people. Orginally I would change my favorite every week. First Violin then piano then violin and so on. As I began going to more summer camps on violin I became more attached to the violin.
Then I switched piano teachers and that was the end of it. I quit piano for one uear and have since taken it up again, mainly to understand theory.
But I don't think you should be forced to choose. So it proves you can do both as long as you love them both. You may eventually have a favorite, but it is actually better to know both so you will have a better appreciation of music!
I ended up choosing the violin. Since I started it first, I found bass clef really awkward and found it hard to coordinate both hands on the keyboard. I was a klutz but that's ok. I also found the violin more easier to Um, not quite sure how to explain that. I felt more of an affinity towards violin than piano. Of course, now I have just recently started relearning bass clef on the piano and playing easy pieces to get away from violin once in a while, not that I'm sick of it.
I recommend violin though. Sorry I don't have a good reason. My mom who is also my teacher, heh started out with piano, then switched to violin around 6th grade. She stuck with both though, and she teaches both. So that's pretty great. Anyways, I have a friend who doesn't really have the problem with choosing between them.
She currently plays violin but prefers piano because it's more 'fun. I know that decision is entirely up to her, but I feel that if she's gone this far in violin, she might as well keep going; or else she just wasted all that time.
Know what I mean? I reread journal entries from elementary school where I say "I play piano, and it's fun, but I hate hate hate hate playing the violin, and I never want to play it again! I think I started getting more attached to violin when I started playing in orchestras. But then I started realizing that I was only "mediocre," which made a slump in my violin playing. Plus, I had pressure from my mother a piano teacher to prepare to play in a ten piano concert in Japan.
So I dropped violin for a few months and concentrated soley on piano. When I came back from Japan, however, I picked up violin again, and then during my junior year I took lessons, and the summer after my junior year I participated in a six week Governor's school where my area of emphasis was instrumental music on violin.
Sooo, now I play piano, I enjoy it, I'm good at it. But I think for me it was easy to make the decision - my mother is a great pianist, and I don't want to have to "live up to her" if that makes sense.
The half steps are all lined up for you in a row and you don't have to worry about being in tune, if you've got a good piano that holds its tune.
Personally I think that every musician, no matter what the instrument, should have basic piano skills. I pose the question, why does chossing an empahasis on one preclude practicng the other regalalry? I never bothered to learn the paino to any reasonable level and I cannot tell you how deeply I regret this. Not only does one have access to some of the most beautiful music ever written Bach is soon playable a swell as stuff like Schumann Childrens songs and Bartok Mikrokosmos but the depth one can appreciate sonatas by playingthe paino part is enormous.
I was not surpried to read John Dalley of the Guarneri quartet talking with enthusiaism about working at the Bach Preludes and Fugues as a theory exericse filling in the middle parts and then comapring with the masters version as a very significant musical exercise.
My grandfather got me into both violin and piano at the age of six, but he always said that he preferred the violin because it's so much more portable than a piano, LOL. Now, almost twenty years later, I agree with him. For me, nothing beats the satisfaction of bringing my instrument on the road and performing whenever I feel like it although more for myself than for others.
If your child has already expressed an interest in violin and has their heart set on playing violin then you should encourage this interest and help your child to begin learning the violin. If on the other hand, your child does not have a preference either way then I would present the piano as the perfect instrument.
You may also find it easier to win them over to the piano than the violin. As you know, the piano works on the principle of pressing a number of keys in combination to produce melody and harmony. Press that key combination on Monday and you will produce a set of precise tones. Press the same key combination on a Friday and the same tones will be produced.
My point is that there is consistency in the simplicity of the action. Much like typing on your keyboard, each time you press that key, you can expect the same response.
Now, how much pressure you apply when pressing the key as well as how rapidly, with how much vigor and for how long you hold it down will affect the tonal quality of the note produced. However, it is sufficient to say that each time you press a key on the piano the same note will play. On an instrument like the violin, this is not the case. To produce precisely the same note requires years of practice. I would even argue that a violinist very rarely produces the same note each time they play it.
Small variations in bow position, pressure and finger position will mean there are tiny discrepancies each time the note is played. Perfect for a child. Many instruments produce a note by vibrating a string at a certain frequency. The length of the string dictates the frequency at which it vibrates.
To change frequency we normally shorten the string by pressing our finger down on it. The piano also uses strings to produce a tone, however for every available frequency, the piano has a string pre-tuned to that frequency. As a consequence, the piano has 88 individual keys tuned to a different frequency. Why does this matter in terms of making it easy to play I hear you say? Well, what if I was to tell you that every note within the normal range is available at the press of a piano key.
And they are all in order of ascending tone from left to right, low to high. In fact, if you take the musical stave the lines on a page of music each space and line on that page corresponds to an exact key on the piano or vice versa.
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