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[quote=Anonymous]One of my children had private lessons from a young age, and the other just took a year of school violin in 4th grade. The latter was still able to play what was required that year... but he practiced every day, and had the example of his sister to draw from. I had absorbed some of the techniques from attending his sister's private lessons, and taught him some posture and fingering/bowing basics at home too.

Here's what you do:
1. Insist on daily practice, including scales. Just a few minutes every day works better for memory and development than an hour once a week. 
2. To avoid solidifying bad habits, you can look for a beginner violin lesson on YouTube, where they teach how to stand, how to hold the violin, how to angle the left wrist and fingers, and how to hold the bow. 
3. He needs to practice scales every day, to learn where the notes are on the string and to memorize how they sound. This will greatly impact how in-tune he plays! He can listen to each scale online (memorize how each note sounds) and then replicate that on his instrument. I hope his teacher has placed colored tape on the neck of his violin as visual cues. You can ask that this be done by the shop you rent from.

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