Essay or personal frustration about THE VIOLIN

I have no doubt music is the reason of my entire life, and through the course of my life I have tried a lot of things that involves music as well, I make sure that on all my stages of life music is the main part of it, and now I´m getting used to learn how to play different rhythms and instruments.


But from all my studies, and experience, the most amazing instrument I have discovered, is the violin, it has it all, passion, softness, intensity and tenderness, it is like the most powerful expression of music itself in the smallest wooden box I have tried.

Of course I´m an awful violinist, maybe the worst I´ve ever heard, but I don´t care, I enjoy myself playing it and discovering new things on the violin, I told my violin teacher that I have a kind of transformers notes on my way, those which are supposed to be A but sound as D and you are stepping on F, and even she laughs at me, It is also undoubtedly the highest challenge I have gotten, I passed through guitar, bass, vihuela, ukulele, cuatro, drums, keyboard, and all the basic instruments any musician should have tried, but this one, it´s particularly mysterious, it is like a mix of the old point of view of music and the huge diversity of new genres that can be played with it.

Also the Mexican folk music depends highly on this instrument as well as the folk music from other cultures, such as European, argentine, Chilean, and guaraní, passing through the genres of baroque, tango, country, celtic, even folk-rock and some strange fusion of music as gothic rock and others.

On the personal scope, the violin has been an important part for my life, I have always loved all the romantic stuff and the kind of dance that violinists do when they play, makes me crazy, actually and it´s a little bit funny, all the people that I have really been in love with have had something to do with the violin, maybe they only were the violinist of a mariachi in México, or were my partners on a music group where I had the chance to know Colombia, also I had a girlfriend who was luthier, violinist teachers as well, so that´s why I decided to try the violin, maybe that was a signal, and I am very proud of saying I´m learning, I´m not good now, but I won´t stop until I will.

So, I don´t know why I decided to upload this to the blog, well I barely know what I do this days, maybe I just hadn´t any better idea and I´m very excited about violins now, this romantic, mysterious, noble, and even fashionable instrument that have had very important role on music world since it invention some centuries ago.

By: Le Kath (who else? jaja )