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Bowing is hard!
It needs a lot of practice... and as others have said, a teacher can be invaluable. We can all play a guitar perfectly well with a piece of old bank card ... a cheap'n'nasty bow will be very difficult to get even moderately satisfactory sounds. As a quick route to giving up these are far worse than that cheap'n'cheerful plywood box guitar with rubbish intonation and an action you can drive a car under. Working hard on your right hand when you start out seems to be really important... a decent tone that's not quite in tune (yet) is easier to develop than accurate fingering of a tune while the bow judders and scrapes... |
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Maybe a soundproof room?
Bob
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But PLEASE don't leave the mute on at a jam! I have a friend who can play ANY stringed instrument very well, yet is self-conscious about their fiddle playing. No one can ever hear them at the jam because they insist on playing with a mute!
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