The Viola Challenge!

The viola.  An instrument, a tool, and a story.  Each viola is a story of struggles, of people learning, skills being developed, music playing, frustration, and pride.  With each song you master you feel better about yourself and your instrument.  You see the instrument different than those who don't play it, but in ways you can't explain.  At first, you want easy songs, but you want difficult ones quickly, and you learn them faster.

This is more or less what it's like to learn the viola, (or any instrument really, if played long enough.).  I might have it more dramatic, but that's okay!😄  Playing the viola was first, fr me, just some variation.  I played band in the US, so why not do Orchestra here?  The viola was my weapon of choice, because everyone else had chosen either violin or cello, except for me and a double bass player (in my grade).  But over time, I started enjoying playing the viola more than I had enjoyed playing the trombone, for reasons I don't know.

I used to be really bad at playing the viola.  But recently, I've noticed that I've improved at the hard parts in the songs.  For instance, once I was the only viola player in the front two rows, and I usually messed up on the viola solo in the song, but i played it perfectly because there were no others of my clan to cover up my mistakes.  I realized that I could play well if I just tried hard enough and really, actually cared.