Before we move on to Bowing Dojo next week, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of the amazing progress happening in this community. One story that stood out this spring was Graham's. What makes this especially inspiring is that much of the practice happened while deployed overseas with the Royal Air Force. Long shifts, limited time, air raid alarms going off and plenty of reasons to put violin on the back burner. Instead, he picked one skill, showed up consistently, and trusted the process. The result is in the video below. Nicely done, Graham. You should be proud. 👏 Vibrato Dojo may be wrapping up, but Bowing Dojo begins next week. If you've ever felt like your bow arm has a mind of its own, you're going to enjoy what's coming next. 😎 We've already discovered new vocabulary words like perpendicularity and shock-absorbery-ness. Are there any other bow issues or questions you have? We will soon be talking about all of it. Best, Jenny P.S. If Vibrato Dojo helped you make progress this spring, I'd love to see it. Feel free to post a before-and-after clip, progress video, or even just share one 'aha' or thing that's improved since we started. I'm putting together a community compilation and would love to include as many of your comments and videos as possible. Remember: in violin, small progress is big progress. When you focus on one thing at a time, even tiny improvements are more likely to stick - and much easier to build on in the future. 🎻

Welcome! Here’s how to get oriented: ⬜ Introduce yourself in the 👋 Introductions thread ⬜ Visit the 🥋 Dojo: Vibrato 2026 thread and try an exercise (coming March 3) ⬜ Share a win or question anytime This space is for encouragement and shared focus - whether you’re training inside Jenny’s Daily Lessons or are simply a fellow adult violin learner. If you’re enrolled in Core Training or Personal Coaching, use this space to support and strengthen your structured training. If you’re not enrolled, you’re still fully welcome here on Skool - and you can explore the full structured training path anytime → https://www.jennyoconnor.com/programs/ Nothing here is required. Jump in when you’re ready. — 🔔 Quick Note on Notifications (Optional) Skool can send a lot of emails by default. You may want to adjust this once: • Click your profile photo (top right) • Go to Settings • Select Notifications • Customize what emails you receive That’s it - set it once and you’re good. 🎻💪 Jenny

We have some new faces here - and a few familiar ones too - so let’s make this our official intro spot. If you haven’t introduced yourself yet (or if it’s been a while), please jump in and share: ~Where you’re playing from ~One piece that made you wanna learn violin ~One thing you’re into besides violin Brand new? Returning after years away? Grinding nonstop? Either way, pull up a chair. (Photos welcome but no pressure!)

What do you say we take a little break from all the serious training Dojo talk and share some fun inspo over the weekend? Doug's Cajun Fiddle post inspired me to share a video from my fiddle idol, Liz Carol. Please post yours as a comment here or make your own post by selecting "Hot Violinist Hangout" as the category when you post. You may notice that just about everything about her technique is "wrong." But somehow it's clearly working for her!! (Watch her double toe tapping while playing too - that's something we will do later this year in the Rhythm Dojo.) I got to see her play solo like this right in front of me at Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp in the early 2000s when I had not been playing very long. At one point the fiddling was just really cooking up and she was going off on all these improvised runs and she let out this vocal glee sort of laugh rhythm thing. It was really incredible, like once in a lifetime sort of experience. Meanwhile through the camp - I was miserable to be honest. Everybody there played amazing, even the other students sounded a lot like Liz. I was slower than everyone. I swear I was the worst one there. At the time I felt like I didn't learn anything because it was all too fast and I was so far behind where I wanted to be. But looking back, that's where I learned how to do five note rolls Liz's way. And that turned out to be pretty important actually! Those five note rolls are likely the link that allowed me to meet you! I wasn't happy or feeling too good at the time, but I was learning things that changed my whole life. I also bought a CD straight from David Greenburg's suitcase that had some tunes that one day I would learn. (On the E Muzeki, Sindh CD as The Greenburg Medley, if you wanna search on streaming and check out my eventual progress.) Have a great Memorial Day weekend if you're in the states! And a great weekend wherever you are. Memorial Day means Summer is here, which means we can soon put a bookmark in Vibrato and go on to Summer Bow Focus in the Dojo.

OK, Once I got past the "eye candy factor" (which,believe me, took awhile🫤) I noticed the oldest daughter's bow hold . Not sure if all French Canadian Quebecois fiddlers hold their bows like this or not. She's definately got her own thing going on here.ttps://youtu.be/AF3TgdBIGMk?si=sPnsvlBBNHdHNoIq