Does learning to play the piano help with learning to play the violin?
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I am a high school student and am wondering if learning the piano first would help me learn the violin later.
Yeah, I learned piano first and then violin. Learning any musical instrument will teach you principles that carry over.
Piano is a good one because with piano you generally play lots and lots of notes at the same time and learn about chords and the ‘big picture’, and that helps somewhat when you’re playing the violin because usually you only play one or two notes at a time then, but you understand the music more if you know about chords and can sense where it’s going.
I was in the public school orchestra program in my town, and so everybody started at the same grade (4th) and continued through high school. I didn’t really practice more than anybody else (I didn’t practice at all outside of class), but I did learn faster than them because I played the piano too, or at least that’s my theory.
But all things considered, somebody who spends 200 hours learning the piano and then 300 hours learning the violin probably isn’t going to be much better a violinist than somebody who spends 500 hours just practicing the violin. (those are just random numbers, but you get the principle)
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It can help. If you don’t know how to read music, that would help a lot. It also helps build hand-eye cooridnation, something you need for both instruments.
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I am a pianist in training
, and can tell you that piano is an instrument whose practitioners must treat it with patience and respect (especially in the higher levels). I am currently in grade 8/10 RCM, and can say, honestly, that the piano requires lots of dedication and discipline. I am unaware of a violin’s specific playing and psychological requirements, although can say, that most instruments follow the same means of discipline. I doubt though, that the piano will provide you with many preparational opportunities before violin study (aside from long fingers and the learning of notes). Thanks for raising the question though, even I, now, wish to learn the specifics (perhaps from my aunt who during her adolescence studied both piano and violin… simultaneously!) 
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Yeah, I learned piano first and then violin. Learning any musical instrument will teach you principles that carry over.
Piano is a good one because with piano you generally play lots and lots of notes at the same time and learn about chords and the ‘big picture’, and that helps somewhat when you’re playing the violin because usually you only play one or two notes at a time then, but you understand the music more if you know about chords and can sense where it’s going.
I was in the public school orchestra program in my town, and so everybody started at the same grade (4th) and continued through high school. I didn’t really practice more than anybody else (I didn’t practice at all outside of class), but I did learn faster than them because I played the piano too, or at least that’s my theory.
But all things considered, somebody who spends 200 hours learning the piano and then 300 hours learning the violin probably isn’t going to be much better a violinist than somebody who spends 500 hours just practicing the violin. (those are just random numbers, but you get the principle)
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It helps you learn a lot about music in general. It can’t hurt.
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