eMedia My Violin - Learn at Home

I purchased this program for my 7 year old daughter after she got a violin for Christmas. Im impressed with the program because she doesnt really need adult direction and can teach herself. Will this program teach you to become an accomplished professional violinist? No, but the lessons are simple to follow, have engaging games for reinforcement, and really do help teach the basics. I wanted to do this before investing in expensive private lessons. I believe it was a good call. I would recommend this not only for children, but anyone wanting to learn how to play violin. I also purchased the my violin and was equally impressed with that one.

This product, DVD, for violin instruction is simply bad !! This product is very very basic. You can go online to YouTube, type in violin instruction and watch several videos for FREE and obtain a better lesson. Search violin parts for the beginnner, violin techniques for the beginner, first violin songs for the beginner etc... You can do this for free and get a better lesson. I purchased this for my daughter. I watched it once and it was horrible !! They have a nice yet old lady to play the violin. She DOES NOT capture the childs attention !!! My child would not watch the video it was so boring. This video is the equivalent of your childs first lesson for $15 or $20 bucks. Not only this, if you have simply 2 or 3 months of prior piano lessons 20 years in the past and you watch about 1 hours of videos for fee on line. You could teach your child or yourself everything in this CD. Simply this DVD is crap, take it from experience it is not worth the money. If and only if, you live 200 miles from your nearest violin instructor and you have NO experience with anything remotely similar to music instruction then you might want to buy this. I took piano for one semester in college 30 years ago and I am more than easily able to give my child more instruction than this video can !!!! Plese read the prior sentence several times. I am very serious about this.

Using for homeschool.Easy to understand for all ages!!!

Great program!

Cool little program, but my daughter was half way through the lessons in about 20 mins. Tuner in program is inaccurate, some of the lessons are annoying and repetitive. I would save the $$ and just go on and spend it on lessons.

This is great for beginners. Id try this before the expensive teacher then after getting a handle on playing move to a teacher for instruction. It gives the notes, the music, and a video example of someone playing - three ways to learn.

This is the best violin tutorial for kids. My 7 yr old started this and loves it. Its fun and easy to follow. And she doesnt get bored.

i gave this and a violin to my daughter for her sixth birthday, we have just started it and I am blown away! It makes me want to go and by myself a violin to learn with her. It teaches care for you instrument as well as general maintenance. It does not start you out playing twinkle, twinkle or Mary had a little lamb, it genuinely shows you how to play your violin, how to hold your bow, and techniques to improve your ability. Teaching for enjoyment of music is the way we want to go and I think this is a wonderful way to start.

This product is for the person who knows exactly nothing about playing a violin. It starts with the basics and works its way up. This is exactly what I was looking for. You can spend as much time on each lesson as you wish. I have not completed all of the lessons, so I dont know how advanced the lessons get.

My daughter (5 1/2) is in love with this program. Though I sit with her for lessons, shes able to easily use the program and understands all of the functions with no confusion. The combination of videos, pictures, and sound clips make this very clear and the pace is good. We did over 2 hours our very first day! Every morning, she rushes out of her room wanting to do her violin lessons--were now looking at purchasing the piano course as well---I just wish that they had more titles!