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📍 START HERE: How to Use This Space
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
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Feb 25 •
📌 Community Guidelines (Please Read)
Welcome! I’m really glad you’re here. This group is here to support your practice in a way that feels encouraging, clear, and sustainable. --- 🤍 WHAT THIS SPACE IS FOR • Encouragement and accountability • Sharing practice wins and challenges • General questions about navigating Jenny’s Daily Lessons • Feeling less alone in your training Engage as much or as little as you like. --- 🌿 FREE COMMUNITY + JENNY'S DAILY LESSONS Some members here are part of the free Skool community. Some are enrolled in Jenny’s Daily Lessons (Core Training or Personal Coaching). All members including free are very welcome to join in all Skool activities: - Post wins and struggles - Join conversations - Participate in seasonal Violin Dojo posts The full lesson library and structured practice paths live inside Jenny’s Daily Lessons. You can explore that anytime here ---> https://www.jennyoconnor.com/programs/ And you're still welcome on Skool either way. --- 🎻 ABOUT SHARING VIDEOS You’re welcome to post practice clips for encouragement, accountability and as a way to look back and see how far you've come. Please note: - Skool is not a technical critique forum - If someone mentions a struggle, feel free to share your experience on that - Peer encouragement is welcome - teaching is not expected Detailed technical feedback and personalized practice direction are part of the Personal Coaching option and happen outside of Skool. --- 🔥 CORE TRAINING & PERSONAL COACHING (CLARITY) Core provides the full structured system and Violin Dojo focus. Personal Coaching includes weekly personalized video feedback and tailored practice direction directly from me. This keeps Skool a supportive community space rather than a coaching forum. --- 🥋 ABOUT THE VIOLIN DOJO Throughout the year, we rotate through optional Violin Dojo practice focuses, training one core skill at a time using a clear progression. (First practice focus drops March 3)
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Feb 24 •
👋 Introduce Yourself
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!)
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Hot Cross Buns at an Easter Dinner 😅
Another violinist sent this to me today. We agreed we hadn’t thought much about Hot Cross Buns being an actual food item. Happy Easter! 😋🎻
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Encouragement for Vibrato Dojo
Simple message today. If you're training vibrato this Spring... keep going. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of how to do that effectively and without going crazy. To keep going: spend the first and last 5 minutes of every practice playing reps in the sweet spot of your training process. To not go crazy: add one fun, slightly challenging song to your practice. --- Here’s a bit more on how to keep going on your main goal (vibrato if you’re following the current Dojo focus), and why reps are where the magic happens. Quick reminder of the steps: White Belt: prep for movement Blue Belt: lock in one technique Purple Belt: reps Brown Belt: formed brain pathways Resist the temptation to try vibrato in songs (that's a black belt activity) until brown belt is feeling easy, or keep it to a minimum. Since I’ve been working with adult learners for over a decade, all my best tips have come straight from you. One student said something I love: It helps if I change from thinking- “I’m practicing violin” to “I’m training my brain to play violin.” Ok if I get a little nerdy? When we do reps, we’re building new matter and connections to the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for automatic movement. It's crazy - it's a small mini brain looking thing way at the back of our head. (Take a look at the brain diagram attached.) Meanwhile, the parts of the brain we rely on for everyday life like planning, logic, memory... don’t help much here. Which is why this can feel so frustrating. It’s like we’ve spent our whole lives building a beautiful boat… and suddenly we’re dropped on dry land. 🥴 Everything we usually rely on doesn’t help us here. The cool part is, this is exactly why playing violin is so good for the brain, no matter where it leads. One more thought: Remember texting on flip phones with T9? Or pressing the 2 three times to get a C? Then smartphones came along with full touch screen keyboards, and it felt awkward at first. Now look at us go! 😅
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