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doctor-oswin-song asked: I wanted to take my guitar on a flight, is that even legal?
It sure is! There was a guitar on my flight back from school. Make sure you have it in a hard case!
“Excuse me, would you be able to check—”

“Can you move your instrument out of the way? I don’t have space for my roller bag—”

“Why didn’t you just check—”

“Your instrument takes up too much space”

“Why are you traveling with your instrument?”

reblog if u understand this inspirational message
I read it in bass clef and spent too much time trying to figure out what the hell was so inspirational about ecddcbg.
hauntingly beautiful.
woah there, that just hit my feels real hard.
lmfao it sounds so beauty on violin„,
I just got super confused cause I was reading the comment about reading this in bass clef so I automatically started reading it in bass but then my violinist instinct kicked in and so I read the second half in treble. Whoops.
survivingtheplague asked: The tags in the cup song post. I can't even. AHAHA. Because it's so accurate. HOW DO MUSIC?
Haha I’m glad you appreciate it. That was me for the first hour of playing, I was like HOW DO I CANNOT
contrabassic asked: Arm vibrato is really great when you play the bass. Just saying.
gonfal asked: I'm thinking OP with the vibrato problem actually has a tension problem. My advice: sans violin, stand as comfortably as you can. Take your left hand, and touch your thumb to your second finger. Everything should feel loose. Take your right hand, your left hand shouldn't resist. Use RH and move your LH in vibrato motion, make sure you're not resisting. In slow motion with the violin, rest your LH third finger on the string, and relax your wrist back, and then move it back up. Check for tension.
exploringaesthetics asked: I agree with the last post. My advice for vibrato is to chill, both physically and mentally, and make your sound as characteristic (grotesque, gorgeous, brilliant, pale, earthy, etc.) as possible. Work on vibrato as for variety needed but stressing out about it has the opposite effect. Different bodies and different set-ups have different natural preferences for certain types of vibrato. Musicality is the primary objective. Happy Music Making!
Exactly this!!