Learning the Basics.....Again

I feel I am ready to go. I bought myself a book to help teach me how to play the violin. It starts off with information about the notes, which is the first thing that I need to learn...again. First, the book began to teach me about the spaces and lines of the staff so I would be able to read some basic musical notes.

 

Above is an example of the basic notes. To help remember what notes are where, there are some tricks I use. First, for the notes on the spaces, it spells the word "FACE" when you go from the bottom up. For the notes on the lines, there is another easy way by creating a sentence, such as, "Every Good Boy Does Fine". 

Now that I know the spaces and line of the staff, I need to know the strings on my violin. There are four strings to know. If I am looking down the bridge of my violin, the notes go GDAE, as pictured below.

Now that I knew the basic notes, I needed to next learn how to position my fingers on the violin itself. With a little practice I was feeling a little more confident. I had noticed in some videos that I have been watching that sometimes people would use the whole bow and some only used some of the bow on the notes. I decided that I wanted to learn more about it, so I looked up the different ways to use the bow when playing. I found these different techniques very interesting and I know that this knowledge will come in very useful as I begin to learn more notes and more songs in the future.