Dec 14 - 19

Monday - lessons, got some great pointers on Bouree, keep bow wrist straight when up at the frog, practice scales at the frog to get used to that position and to help me make a better sound there. Also going to try and work more on vibrato this week. 

Tuesday - 
Wednesday - lots of review from 11pm to 12am, waiting up for Corey to finish work. I love the violin, I am excited for when I sound better! I sent a polo of me playing to Nicole, her kids play the fiddle, they said I have improved 😁
Thursday - 
Friday - 
Saturday - 

Nov 29 - Dec 12

Sunday - Practiced the simplified Hymns "The Spirit of God", also "Jesus the Very Thought of Thee" by ear

Saturday - I'm checking in and see that I didn't record anything this week, sorry to myself. I did practice for over 90 minutes today - 60 minutes with Sophi, 25 with Natalie, and more on my own

Monday - Girls had lessons over zoom. Tonight I worked on Bouree

Tuesday - 9 pm - More Bouree and other review, played to calm myself down before bed. It helped. 
Wednesday - 10 am - Bouree bowing, I think I have it down! And I can tell that my sound is improving. 
Thursday - 
Friday - 
Saturday - 

Nov 23 - 28

Monday - traveling all day, left hotel at 6am, flight at 8, 5+ hour flight, 6 hour layover in LAX until 9pm CA time, in Las Vegas and to bed

Tuesday - drive home, left Vegas at 11, home at 6pm
Wednesday - good review of all songs, and started listening to Bouree on repeat
Thursday - Happy Thanksgiving! Didn't get to any practicing today
Friday - nothing :(
Saturday - practiced for 20 minutes with Natalie and an hour with Sophi! Go Soph! She was inspired after after Lily practiced for 90 minutes. I love the violin and I want to play better than I currently do, I want to practice everyday. 

Nov 2 - 21

Nov 2 - 7 - Monday S and N had lessons. I just did a little bit of Mussette on Monday, other than that I didn't do a lot or do deep this week. Practiced with Sophi on Saturday, Minuets

Nov 9 - 14 - getting ready for Hawaii, left on the 11 for Las Vegas, early flight on Nov 12

Nov 16 - 21 - Didn't practice as much as I would have liked, but did do some, I love the violin and look forward to being able to play well someday! Until then, practice practice.

Oct 26 - 31

Monday - lessons for S&N, C scale and slow Waltz for me

Tuesday - practiced with Sophi and Natalie - sight reading, and then Sophi and I did scales, happy farmer, and started gavotte, and Natalie and I practiced Allegretto and Andantino. Later I did a little bit of Waltz
Wednesday - nothing :( busy cleaning and reogranizing bedrooms most of the day, I didn't follow through with the girls. 
Thurs - Sat - didn't record it and cant's remember

Oct 19 - 24

 Monday - I practiced Waltz for almost an hour and then went for my own lesson and it was so fun, yay, I like violin. During the next month, I'm going to work on setting the bow on Hunters Chorus, on doing "sticky slurs" on Gavotte and Hunter's Chorus, and work on vibrato on the Minuets, Chorus, and Waltz. Also, getting deeper into the string but while using the whole bow, go deep from the elbow but at the same time being aware that the shoulder, elbow, and wrist all work together. Also going to work on some Schradeick techniques on A string - 

It was really fun, I liked having a whole hour to go deep playing, deeper than I usually had with the 5 min jump in lessons I had before. I playing violin!

Tuesday - waltz
Wednesday - nothing
Thursday - review with Natalie and Sophi, Waltz
Friday - Waltz, review with Natalie, tried to keep tone even/constant through the whole length of the bow as we did Allegretto
Saturday - C scale and arpeggios, Waltz, review with S, very slow on Minuet 3, Gavotte 1500 part, N didn't practice

Oct 12 - 17

Monday - scales with playlist, lessons today, From 8-9 tonight, I did scales and arpeggios with my violin playlist, then a review of everything, had to try a few times with Mussette and Gavotte. Gavotte is killing me! I might record a little video recital anyway even though I can't do that one, I will keep trying, but I also want to feel like I can officially move on from Book 1

Tuesday - Musette and Gavotte
Wednesday - review with Sophi
Thursday - good practice and review with Sophi and Natalie
Friday - review
Saturday - lots of Waltz slow practice, it was really fun!

Oct 5 - 10

 Monday - Review with girls, scales, sight reading

Tuesday - Review all, Musette
Wednesday - Sophi yes, N no
Thursday - Minuet 3 with Sophi, Gavotte, N no practice
Friday - Musette, Gavotte, Waltz
Saturday -

Sept 29 - Oct 3

Monday - girls lesson, I'm going to take a full lesson for myself once a month

Tuesday - review with girls, lots of mussette, slow Gavotte for 20 minutes, Sophi and I working on the 1500x part from Gavotte 15 x super slow each day

Wednesday - just updating the blog here today, sorry I missed the past two weeks. I have been practicing, not as much as I'd like, but doing ok considering. I'm taking a full lesson on Oct 12, working to have each piece polished the best I can by then, we'll see if I get to Waltz

Thursday - 
Friday - 
Saturday -

Sep 7 - 12

 Monday - nothing, fun outing with the kids though

Tuesday - review with Sophi
Wednesday - review with Natalie
Thursday - nothing
Friday - with girls
Saturday - lots of practice today, it was good, lessons on Monday should go well

Aug 31 - Sep 5

Monday - Lessons. I didn't listen to Sophi's cause Corey and I were talking to Ethan on hangouts, Came in for the end of Natalie's lesson, I passed off Long long ago and had the bowing right, yay, cool. Amy taught me C scale and introduced 3rd position, fun stuff
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday -
Saturday -

Aug 24 - 29

Monday - violin playlist
Tuesday - Book 1 review by myself while kids were at school
Wednesday - review with N&S, N finished practicing, Sophi started but didn't finish.
Thursday - Worked on Perpetual motion and minuets with Sophi, Natalie perpetual motion too, Book 2 songs for me, worked on bowing on Long long ago book 2
Friday - mostly helped the girls today
Saturday - I think I've got the bowing down for Long Long ago in book 2. We have a lesson on Monday, our first in 4 weeks, so it will be nice. We're going to start going every Monday again.

Aug 17 - 22

Monday - nothing
Tuesday - violin playlist, g scale
Wednesday - 20 min review of Happy Farmer through Hunters' Chorus
Thursday - violin playlist, practiced vibratto
Friday - nothing
Saturday - Got in over an hour practicing today - did my violin playlist, review with Natalie of Book 1, then helped her on Perpetual motion and Allegretto, Helping Soph on Happy Farmer, and Allegretto through Hunters Chorus, still can't do Gavotte fast enough

Aug 10 - 15

Monday - left for Bear Lake today - I'm taking my violin and hope i can practice up there in the hotel
Tuesday - nothing
Wednesday - nothing
Thursday - back home, didn't practice at Bear Lake
Friday - review with S and N
Saturday - little bit of Mussette and Gavotte

Aug 3 - 8

Monday - Book 1 reviews and lots of slow and medium Musette
Tuesday - Practiced with girls, Happy Farmer with Sophi and Alegretto with Natalie
Wednesday - Review of Minuets through Hunter's Chorus, lots of Musette
Thursday -
Friday -
Saturday -

Jul 27 - Aug 1

Monday - At Park City this week. I did Hunters Chorus 14x, I think I got it at slow speed
Tuesday - nothing
Wednesday - Hunter's Chorus 3x
Thursday - nothing
Friday - little bit of duets with Seth
Saturday - nothing

Jul 20 - 25

Monday - Lesson today, I didn't do much last week except review songs, so it was just Soph and Natalie today
Tuesday - Long Long Ago Book 2
Wednesday - review with Sophi and Natalie
Thursday - fiddled around from memory, old joe clark and other fiddle tunes and review from memory
Friday - Did my violin playlist
Saturday - Review with Sophi and Natalie

Jul 13 - 18

Monday - Lesson today over zoom cause the kids have all been sick with sore throats, and we went and got Wes tested for covid since he was the worst of the kids and had a low fever of 100.0. So lesson was fine, the girls didn't practice or play any hymns Fri, Sat or Sun, so they were a little rusty. We practiced today though - just review of their pieces to pass of - Perpetual motion for Natalie and Minuet 2 for Sophi. They did good, I did a little bit of Long Long ago from book 2, going to work on getting the bowing correct this week
Tuesday - Did my violin playlist for G scales and intonation, all book 1 review and book 2 through Musette
Wednesday - review
Thursday - played along to all book 1 and started book 2, mussette is really fast, I couldn't play it that fast, so I worked on slow speed then medium speed mussette
Friday - Mussette Medium speed
Saturday - review with Sophi and Minuet 3

Jul 6 - 11

Monday - worked on 3rd part of Perpetual motion with Natalie, Sophi review of Minuet 2, started Minuet 3, then fiddled around, tried to transcribe "I Can Change" with Lily to play on sax and figured out my notes on violin too
Tuesday - helped Natalie and Sophi practice, review the Minuets with Sophi, some sight reading of the simplified hymns with Sophi
Wednesday - I did a Suzuki review with Sophi, Natalie did Perpetual motion in A Scale, D scale, and G scale
Thursday - Stitches with Lily, Review with the girls, Hunter's Chorus and Long Long Ago
Friday - fiddled around to different songs on my playlist, Hunter's Chorus and Long Long Ago
Saturday - nothing :(

Jun 29 - Jul 4

Monday - no lesson today, fiddles some Ol' Joe clark in the morning and Sky full of Stars intonation
Tuesday - Sight reading and review, some duet review for myself
Wednesday - Review with girls, Museette and Gavotte
Thursday - girls up in Park City, I did scales and intonation to my violin playlist, then Gavotte, Boil 'em cabbage and Turkey in the Straw
Friday - nothing, E got his wisdom teeth out today, then kids gone boating, I'm home with ELP, didn't exercise or practice violin
Saturday - Practiced with Natalie - first two parts of Perpetual motion 6x, then with Sophi on Minuet 2, reviewed whole song 2x on med speed, then focused on measures 23-24 eight times

Jun 22 - 27

Monday - lots of Musette and review before lessons today - it's been 3 weeks since our last lesson so I had both N and S have 30 min lessons and then I had a quick check in at the end and played Mussette, she said it was great and all the notes were right, no tricks or secrets to improving the tone other than practice, so that is good! I had the bowing all down and didn't mess up. We did America the beautiful and some fiddle tunes too which was fun (Boil 'em cabbage boys)
  My notes from the lessons - I took lots of notes cause Natalie and Sophi both act during their lessons the same way that they act when I try to get them to practice. But I feel so frustrated and Amy handles it like a pro (she is a pro) so I took copious notes so that I can apply them as we practice. :
NATALIE 
Playing position - feet, violin up
A scale - Legatto
Remember in lessons we need to take turns
Wait for the instructions
Do you start up or down bow?
Use more of your bow
What did yo notice?
Pick another review piece (let them choose)
What would happen if you used more bow in lightly row
Watch your bow
Keep your eyes on your bow
Get a dice - each side with a different way to play - eyes closed, one foot, kneeling, laying
Allegro - steady
I'm leading
Follow the leader for temp "I'm starting, 123 ready go"
Notice some bows are choppy, some are smooth, some are extra silky smooth
Every note in it's place
Perpetual Motion - 3 parts, practice one part each week
Watch the fingers each on its place
SOPHI
Open straight wrist
Play scale together, me to keep tempo on open A
Eyes on fingers, esp since it is a new instrument
Minuet 2 All C natural
My turn your turn
Watch my fingers and bow
I know you could keep playing and/or sing it, but stop on D#
We have a purpose, to have D# find it's spot
We didn't do it any time yet cause it wasn't in tune
They have to be exactly right/in tune
Part of what we're practicing is stopping at the end of the practice spot or I can't count it
(Amy got her bead counter from "The Practice Shoppe" Leslie Thackery - going to order one)
Tuesday - lots of Musette, played it for my mom and niece Aurora, worked a little on Gavotte, review of all songs, minuets, chorus
Wednesday - I learned Boil 'em cabbage down, it is really fun! I also started Turkey in the Straw. I can do it but much slower than the youtube video I watched (wow!)
Thursday - This morning I did more Boil 'em Cabbage and Turkey in the Straw, then I also learned Old Joe Clark and Skinny Rat Jig, so fun! Sophi came in and started to clog dance as I played. Hyrum begged for mercy cause I just played the same 4 notes for 5 minutes and he couldn't hear the pro fiddler in the video over me. Also started Skittles at Buckley Bay
Friday - Suzuki review with S and N, and reviewed all the new fiddle songs from yesterday
Saturday - Boil em cabbage while the little kids danced and older kids begged me to stop. Ethan told me today that he's surprised with how much I've improved. ... but it was possible because I started so low

Jun 15 - 20

Monday - Just one song of scales (Sky full of stars). Busy day for Corey's birthday
Tuesday - g scale and totalization to my playlist, reviews alone and later with girls
Wednesday - practiced duets
Thursday - nothing
Friday - reviews, lots of Musette
Saturday - nothing :(
Sunday - Fiddled around trying to play Church music and patriotic songs

Jun 8 - 13

Monday - No lesson today, worked on Musette bowing
Tuesday - Review, it feels like it's been a while! I was a little rusty
Wednesday - Musette
Thursday - Musette, Gavotte, Chrous, started Hunter's Chorus and Long Long ago, I was able to do pretty good on those last two for my first time!
Friday - some reviews and Musette
Saturday -

Jun 1 - 6

Monday - worked on Gavotte and D minor, then lesson with Sophi. Amy pointed out her violin is getting a bit small for her, so I looked on the classified and right after the lesson we drove to Sugarhouse to pick up a 1/2 violin for $99
Tuesday - Review with Natalie, Minuet 2 with Sophi, and Mussette by myself.
Wednesday - reviews
Thursday - lots of Mussette!
Friday - Duets and Mussette
Saturday -

May 25 - 31

Monday: No lesson for Memorial Day, worked on D and D minor scales in scale book, Musette
Tuesday - Friday: Mostly just did reviews with Sophi and Natalie as I helped them practice
Saturday:

May 18 - 23

Monday - I had first lesson today, and I got 40 min cause it was just me and Natalie. Went over the scale book with Amy, D and D minor scales
Tuesday - review with Sophi and Natalie, duets
Wednesday - I started Musette today - so fun and pretty!
Thursday - Musette, reviews, Gavotte, Chorus
Friday - reviews with Sophi
Saturday - "fiddled" around to some Brandon Flowers songs

May 11 - 16

Monday - no lesson today, lots of review with the girls, practiced Gavotte, also started Chorus by Handel, it's a lot easier than Gavotte, phew! I can play the whole song if I read the music, yay
Tuesday - review with Sophi and Natalie, Natalie has May song down!
Wednesday - reviews with Sophi (Minuet 1) and Natalie (May Song)
Thursday - reviews, Gavotte, Chorus
Friday - Happy Farmer, Gavotte
Saturday - I worked on Happy Farmer and Gavotte. AND a Suzuki Duets book I ordered arrived today and Sophi and Natalie and I did the duet for Lightly Row, it was so fun! Took me about 15 min to get it down, then I also started the Duet for Song of the Wind, so fun!!!! I recorded Minuet 1 for my family today via polo, Minuet 2 for the moms, and Minuet 3 for Nicole. I get a (very) little bit better each week.

May 4 - 9

Monday - lessons at Amy's house
Tuesday - nothing
Wednesday - Piano Guys scales and lots of review as I helped Sophi and Natalie practice
Thursday - review with Soph and Natalie, a little bit of Gavotte ultra slow
Friday - nothing
Saturday - slow Gavotte and scales

Apr 27 - May 2

Monday - Lots of review with Sophi and Natalie and spent time on the minuets, happy farmer, and Gavotte too.
Tuesday - Just a few times through Gavotte. Violin is one of my favorite things so I really wanted to play more today (it's my birthday) but it was a very good and productive day overall.
Wednesday - just a little bit of review today with Sophi, most of my free time I was getting ready for family pics tomorrow.
Thursday - no violin, getting ready for pictures
Friday - scales with Sophi, Minuets, Gavotte
Saturday - Minuet with Sophi

Apr 20 - 25

I'm here at the end of the week and I see that I didn't keep track of anything, so instead of making up what I did each day, I'll try for a sum up. We didn't have lessons this Monday cause we're skipping a few weeks since Corey is looking for work. Our next lesson will be May 3, so I'm trying really hard to make sure the girls practiced and are progressing so we have good things to show Amy when we have our next lesson. I did G scale and tonalization while playing along to the Piano Guys (Fight Song and Sky Full of Stars) and lots of review with the girls. 

Sophi has almost got Etude down! I'm excited for her to start the Minuets. 

Natalie has learned Go Tell Aunt Rhody and we're starting O Come Little Children

Apr 13 - 18

Monday - scales, review, etc, then lesson, going to try and go further on Gavotte
Tuesday - Minuets, Happy Farmer, and a little Gavotte
Wednesday - Usual Scales and intonation and review, going to pause lessons for 2 weeks and hopefully by then we'll know if Corey has a job
Thursday - I can practice intonation to Piano Guys "Sky Full of Stars"
Friday - Reviews and worked on Etude with Sophi, review with Natalie
Saturday - Scales to violin playlist, intonation, Gavotte

April 6 - 11

Monday - review and scales, Gavotte part. Lesson, Amy said what she does for her practicing, so this is our new goal for practicing:
1) scale and tonailzation
2) new piece
3) review
4) note reading
She told me to do Stop, Bow, Go to make sure my fingers are in place on Gavotte before I start bringing the notes back down, so BDC#E stop EDCB
Tuesday - G scales, tonalization, Minuets, 100x of Gavotte hard part
Wednesday - G scales, tonalization, Minuets, 100x of Gavotte hard part
Thursday - G scales, tonalization, Minuets, 100x of Gavotte hard part. Sophi's A string broke today
Friday - G scales, tonalization
Saturday - Tonalization, put new strings on one of my violins and Sophi's violin. Review with Natalie and Sophi, Minuets and Happy Farmer, 50x Gavotte part

Mar 30 - Apr 4

Monday - Lesson - Happy Farmer and started Gavotte, grace notes and she told me to start on the 16th notes part and to do it 1500x, She tells her students 15x a day for 100 days
Tuesday - Did the 1500 part 100x
Wednesday - Minuets and Happy Farmer, Gavotte part 100x and grace notes practice
Thursday - Suzuki stuff with Natalie, Gavotte measure 20 100x
Friday - Gavotte part 100x, Minuets and Happy Farmer, Fight Song G Scales
Saturday - O Come O Come Emmauel, Gavotte part 50x

Mar 23 - 28

Monday - Suzuki review
Tuesday - Suzuki review, worked on Allegretto with Sophi
Wednesday - Scales to Fight song, Suzuki review, Minuets and Happy Farmer
Thursday - Suzuki review, Minuets and Happy Farmer
Friday - Suzuki Book 1 review so far
Saturday - Suzuki Book 1 review

Mar 16 - 21

Monday - Review, the little girls had long lessons, I just had like 5 minutes of some spacatto tips
Tuesday - suzuki review
Wednesday - Review, Minuets, Happy Farmer
Thursday - G Scales, Review, Minuets, Happy Farmer, and I just barely attempted the first line of Gavotte, ooh! It's going to be tricky!
Friday - Tonalization, Review, Minuets, Happy Farmer
Saturday - Tonalization and Review, Minuets, Happy Farmer

Mar 9 - 14

Monday - Lesson today, and I told Sophi she could go to Activity days after school, so it was just Natalie and me, and I didn't think to check if Natalie's violin was in her case, and I didn't notice it right there on the wall in front of me, so when we got to the lesson I opened her case to help her get ready and gasp, it was empty! So I got a 45 minute lesson to myself and then Natalie did 10 minutes of pitch and rhythm practice. Learned the difference between Intonation and Tonalization, new words" hooked bows and spacatto.
Tuesday - Only worked on The Happy Farmer for a little bit
Wednesday - Book 1 review, and then Slow practice of Etude, Minuet 1, and Minuet 2
Thursday - some suzuki review and Happy Farmer
Friday - I didn't practice today! :(
Saturday - suzuki review

Mar 2 - 7

Monday - Suzuki Review this morning, worked on all 3 Minuets, then we had our lessons at 4. After we got home I started Book 2 Intonation exercises and arpeggios.
Tuesday - AM 60 min of review and intonation arpeggios
Wednesday - AM 30 min of review, I can almost do the fast part of Etude. I started The Happy Farmer, worked on it for an hour
Thursday - Worked on Happy Farmer, I can do it ultra slow
Friday - G scale, Book 1 review, Happy Farmer for 20 min, and vibrato on fingers 1, 3, and 4 during Minuet 1 for 15 minutes
Saturday - lots of review, video link here for myself. And everyone practiced piano for 15 min today!

Feb 24 - 29

Monday - We had lessons, it was just Natalie and I cause Sophi stayed to go to Activity days. So I had a 40 minute lesson! It was great. She had me practice by playing it very slowly and deliberately - not slurring my sounds together in Minuet 2 - Set your finger, Set your Bow, then Go - "Set, Bow, Go"
Tuesday - AM - Scales and vibrato for 20 min playing Piano Guys Fight Song
Wednesday - Suzuki reviews, Minuet 2 for an hour
Thursday - G scale, then worked on Minuet 1, 2, and 3 today
Friday - Suzuki review
Saturday - Suzuki review, Minuets

Feb 17 - 21

Monday -  20 minutes vibrato practice, 5 min each finger. Here's a link to my current playing ability of Minuet 1. After Sophi and Natalie I had a 15 minute lesson, Amy said I'm on good track for learning vibrato and to just keep practicing, but this week I'm going to do 3-5 finger vibrations each length of the bow.
Tuesday - Perpetual motion with Sophi, a little bit of vibrato practice, and some Minuet 1 and Minuet 2
Wednesday - 30 minuets of review and Minuet 1 and 2
Thursday - I did like 2 hours today - Suzuki review, G scale, Perpetual motion with Sophi, and I worked a lot on Minuet 2, plue 20 min of vibrato practice
Friday - nothing, doh!
Saturday - 30 min of review and Minuet 2

Feb 10 - 15

Monday - About a 15 minute lesson after Sophi and Natalie were done. I did a G scale, she said my tone is a lot better. I'm still working on tone for Minuet 1, and we did a little bit of Minuet 2. Amy tried to show me how to do vibrato. At home I practiced 5 minutes of vibrato on each finger on the A string, per this youtube guy's instructions.
Tuesday - 5 minutes of vibrato on each finger on the A string
Wednesday - Suzuki book 1 review in the morning. G scales for 15 minutes. 5 minutes of vibrato on each finger on the A string. Perpetual motion with Sophi
Thursday - 20 minutes of vibrato practice, 5 min each finger. G scale play along to Piano Guys Fight Song
Friday - 20 minutes of vibrato practice, 5 min each finger. G scale and Suzuki book 1 review for 40 minutes
Saturday - 20 minutes of vibrato practice, 5 min each finger. G scale and Suzuki book 1 review

Brief History of My Violin Efforts

So, I'm starting another online log for myself to keep track of my violin practicing and stuff.

Quick history - my daughter Sophi started violin in August 2018 at my husbands request. I was approaching the 3rd trimester of pregnancy with our 12th child, so I was not about to take on more things to do. So I told him that was fine, but he had to be the one making it happen - aka the one taking her to lessons and helping her practice. Cause I didn't have energy for it now and wouldn't have the time after the baby was born. Plus I don't know anything about violin. Corey picked her up dutifully from school each Thursday and then outsourced the teaching to Melodie, my then senior in high school. Mel would meet them at the teacher's house and would sit in the lessons with Sophi so that she could help her. Summer of 2019, Mel was getting ready to leave for college and it dawned on me that she wouldn't be around to help Sophi. Corey also wanted Natalie to start lessons. My baby was now 6 months old, so I'm still nursing him but we're getting a handle on juggling life, so I felt I could take this over now. I took it upon myself to prep to be their new parental instructor. But since I had zero knowledge of violin, I thought I better learn a little bit. On a whim I looked up used violins on the classifieds, saw one that was less than $100, and so I got it so I could start to learn a little. That one wasn't great, so I got a few more and I really enjoyed fiddling around with it! And that's how and why I started to learn violin as a 43 year old.

I caught up to my 2nd grader pretty quickly in the Suzuki book and our violin teacher says that I'm her best student at practicing, yay for me! We have lessons on Mondays, and after Sophi and Natalie get their instruction, I jump in for a quick 10 minute lesson.

I played in the group Christmas recital with my girls on 19 Dec 2019.

The web address of this blog is amaviolinist - which wasn't my first choice but it was available. I was going for a "Mom violinist" or "Too old to begin practicing violin"-ish kinda name. The idea behind AMA cause that is an acronym that describes me, or did during my last pregnancy, cause AMA stands for Advanced Maternal Age. So I'm an Advanced Maternal Age violinist. It kinda sounds like "I'm a violinist", it's also kinda fun, cause it's almost like "I love" in spanish - amo. I don't know if it will lead to anything amazing, but I like it and it brings me joy, I think it will bring me more joy the more I practice and the better I get.