This video is dedicated to @acidyo who, thanks to the Steem prices, feels like drowning in the icy Atlantic.
The beauty about being a beginner at something is that you can easily watch and feel the improvements on a daily basis. This is a real nice feeling that keeps me going. I guess I'll quit when I'm good enough to be truly arrogant about my abilities.
Still got some bow issues, you might still hear some kind of... almost a throat clear via the bow, a wobbliness from the hairs bouncing against my will. Those with a keen ear will also notice I keep going a bit sharp on some notes. I'm aware of that but I'm not always in a comfortable position that I can just subtly shift up or down to hit the right spot.
Now that I feel content not bothering with Vibrato for a while, I feel the challenge is minimal, so I'm mostly just working on cleaning up my act, memorising scale positions and slowly introducing myself to the lower half of the... 'fretboard'.
I'm very confident I'm doing about 45 things wrong, but I'm only aware of about 6 so any string players out there, hit me with all you got!
And if that got you depressed, I did an extra bonus tune to demonstrate my virtuosity and raw speed: