- Buy a cheap violin
- Try to play
- Realize you sound terrible
- Find a teacher
- Learn Twinkle
- Listen to Twinkle
- Listen to other classical music
- Practice
- Learn more basic songs
- Practice
- Cry because your fingers haven’t developed callouses yet and they hurt
- Practice
- Listen to the songs you’re practicing
- Practice
- Listen to classical music
- Practice
- Learn to read music
- Practice reading music
- Go back to Twinkle to learn vibrato
- Practice
- Cry because you’re tired of practicing
- Notice that you’ve developed a permanent hickey from practicing
- Display your violin hickey as evidence that you’re practicing
- Become very proud of your violin hickey
- Practice more
- Celebrate the callouses and lack of feeling in your fingertips
- Practice
- Get excited because you’re playing a piece you enjoy.
- Realize that music is amazing
- Start to enjoy violin
- Go on to another piece
- Practice
- Spend your life savings buying a better violin
- Adore your new violin
- Practice on your new violin
- Move to a new teacher after becoming too advanced for your old one.
- Cry inside when they tell you all of your technique is wrong
- Learn new technique on Twinkle
- Practice basic bow strokes on Twinkle
- Practice vibrato on, you guessed it, Twinkle
- Start to hate violin
- Start to hate Twinkle
- Find more pieces that you like
- Practice them
- Enjoy practicing them
- Perform them
- Find another piece
- Practice it
- Start to love violin again
- Realize that all of your technique is wrong
- Practice it on Twinkle
- Rejoice that your technique is finally close to correct
- Join a chamber group
- Realize that your intonation is wrong
- Practice it on Twinkle
- Join an orchestra
- Realize your rhythm is off
- Practice with a metronome
- Get tired of all this practicing
- Perform
- Remember why you love this so much
- Keep practicing
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