eMedia My Violin - Learn at Home

product never worked

I started playing the violin recently and thought I had few classes before, this PC tool is a great way for children and adult to learn the fundamentals of the instrument. Simple and direct, the many lessons (with your own personal virtual teacher) allow you to understand the basics in many fun ways and tricks when it comes to handle a bow, And trust me; its ALL in the bow. I enjoyed it, and expect my future kids to enjoy it as well.

Ive always wanted to learn to play the violin so about a month ago I broke down and bought my instrument. The next step was to find lessons and I looked all over. Bottom line: Every instructor was in high demand and lessons were expensive, about $30 for a 1/2 hour.

very satisfied

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!

Bought for my 6 year old she loves it!

I am 36 and this helped my pick up the violin for the very first time and play. would recommend this for the very beginner of all ages.

good!!!

Originally, I could not get this to install on my mac x10.7 but I was able to get it to run on my Win7 system. However, I recently found a solution that would allow me to install the latest version from the manufacturers website: [...] which did work and actually runs and looks better on the mac than on the PC. My only remaining problem is that since I have a macbook air, I need a CD rom drive for the software to access the video clips. So now Im having to look at buying an $80 superdrive to use the software but other mac users that have built in CD drives shouldnt have this problem. Another problem that has been resolved is the Val character is talking now rather than just sitting there blinking. Shes still a little slow to get started talking when you first begin a lesson but eventually she will read the words on the screen. I still think the games in this package will be very helpful to my daughter in learning to read music regardless of whether it is for violin or any other instrument. I have yet to work with my 5 year old with the software but am looking forward to being able to do this. At the moment I have high hopes that she will enjoy and get something out of this software. Suggestions to emedia on their next version would be to upgrade the graphics even further, add subtitles to the video because its difficult to understand the instructor who has a thick german accent, and perhaps do a little more with Val to help keep the kids interest levels up. On a side note, Amazon shipping was much faster than usual on this item. Id ordered it on a Saturday and it arrived the following Monday. Incredible delivery speed! Thanks Amazon.

I love it! It is explained very well and the repetitions and games are wonderful. I could not stop playing it.