Should I post videos of me playing my violin? Would you watch them?

I would check them out.

So long as it’s genuine & not a fiddle, me no like cheats.

Oh yeah, Mozart?

You might want to check if it is ok with your parents first.

Are you good? If you are good then I’ll totally watch, specially if you are doing something different/original.

[mod says] Posting videos of yourself would likely result in being moderated as “self promotional”. A better option would be to pm a link to those members that have expressed an interest in this thread.

I will watch :D

Of course!!!

Aw @syz! What’s wrong with a little self promotion? : (

Guess this question’s over with! @poisonedantidote , I think I’m pretty good. I’ll PM all of you as soon as I get videos up and running!

If you’re good, then yes, I would love to see your videos.

Because you are under age, please talk this over with your folks first. They might want to protect your identity in several ways, either by making sure that your real name is not used, maybe even to hide your face (and just showcase the music, by adding photos of beatiful landscape photos or flowers or whatever, I’ve seen lots of nice videos like that) or to make sure that your location or where you live or go to school are not mentioned.

As a young person, it’s very important to protect your identity, and to make sure that your folks know exactly what kind of information about you is put out there on the internet.

And again, make sure that you are good. I’ve seen a few horrific remarks that were posted on musical youtube videos of young folks singing or playing instruments (that I thought were very sweet, not too bad, giving a great effort, but were slightly amateurish) that I suspect were posted by other young people, or just super mean people who didn’t realize that the video was a young person, simply trying to showcase themselves. I think some of the posters thought that some of the amateur videos were put up on youtube by other people just to make fun of some poor kid that wasn’t an opera star or virtuoso musician. I would hate for that to happen to you.

I have no idea what level your playing is at, but I do not want to see you get hurt in any way shape or form, so just talk to your folks, think about my ideas, and then decide if you want to post. I for one, would love to hear you play : ) I’m rooting for you!

I’d like to see videos of you playing, so please send me a PM when you have them uploaded.

Re what @Kardamom said: if you upload them to You Tube, I suggest that you disable comments for your videos.

I think I’ll wait a few days to post some videos. I think I’m really good, but you all might disagree. I’ll practice some more for a few days, then I promise I’ll PM all of you my videos!

Oh! And my mom said it was okay to post videos. I do anyway. But, I think I’ll do what @Kardamom said and play my music but post pictures instead of my face. If only I knew how to do it…