What are your "small skills," robots? Things that you don't consider big hobbies or a part of your job but you still want to be good at? For me it's:
>weightlifting
>violin
>cooking
(not sure how to measure if I'm a "good cook" or not)
>foreign languages
>reading canonical texts

I don't think you really know anything about the violin. That's a really cheap violin right off the bat, and that's fine, you can play on the shittiest of instruments if you want. But looking at that bow, you don't know what the fuck you're doing. I won't even explain why. I'll let you sweat it out

i am trying to learn to play the bass(guitar)
i used to play the bass(string)
i was also a bass in choir

>>81493882 (OP)
How good are you at the violin?
I played it for 8 years before stopping and now it's been 6 since then and I forgot everything.
It's my favorite instrument, so I kind of want to re-learn, but....
From scratch? Oh boy...

>>81493971
Bro bursts into the thread with diminishing and gaslighting
>t. female anon

>>81493971
This isn't my violin. I just took a picture off google images. But my violin is really cheap. I'm not starting off the hobby with something expensive.

>>81493985
>how good are you at the violin
Not very. I picked up a lot of the technique quickly because I used to play a different stringed instrument, but the fingering is off and sometimes it sounds kinda creaky (I assume due to bad bow work). I've only just begun learning.

>>81494002
One thing I'll tell you that I remember is, keep your bow high and "loose" between the fingers, and your thumb on the fingering hand straight.

iirc that's what my teachers drilled into me
also don't hunch ;)

>>81493882 (OP)
I played the violin when I were a kid and offhandedly told my friends I wanted to pick it up again sometime and they pooled money to get me one. That was 8 years ago and I've barely touched it. I get the urge, I look up some online classes and practice for a few days, get frustrated and abandon it again. It's one of those things I feel constantly guilty for. Perfect metaphor for my entire fucking life, actually.

>>81494077
Thanks for the advice fren

>>81493882 (OP)
i-i consider an instrument to be a big hobby :(

I play the guitar a lot, have done for years, primarily death metal to get really decent at one thing, I dont see the point in doing a load of genres, I can fingerpick well, thats fine, classical type shit but my go to is that. I also weightlift and I draw. I spend most of my time not working doing these things.

>>81494152
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any offense. I didn't mean that the things I listed CAN'T be big hobbies. The division I'm drawing between "big" and "small" hobbies is how important they are to you personally. My "big" hobby is filmmaking, but I can see that being a "small" hobby for someone else. I only consider violin a "small" hobby because I don't spend much time on it or consider it a big part of my identity.

>>81493993
lol! I mean I came in talking shit and it's fine. I just like being obtuse. But yeah that picture they must have that bow so fucking tight, that the gap between the wood bow and the strings themselves as that much distance. That is crazy. I guess I need to go ahead and whip mine out. I just bought it from a middle-aged China man up in carmel. My dad forced me into learning guitar when I was in my teens. So I can read sheet music and play it but not any advanced stuff. And at this point my life I can't do a damn thing because I'm 35 now. But the best way to learn, is to start by learning the notes and sheet music at the same time. And the end goal is to properly play Allegro and preludium. I think Josh Bell has the best rendition of it. He also has the ex-huberman stradivarius. He had it restored over a two-year period because the fucker that stole it from hooverman had put a bunch of shoe polish on it and played it for 50 years until he admitted to the theft on his deathbed. I don't blame the guy either. If I had a chance to get a stradivarius, and I knew I'd get away with it, I would do the same thing. You will never get a violin to sound like one that is hundreds of years old. The Aging of that wood creates uniqueness in the sound.

>>81494647
>learning the notes and sheet music at the same time
I basically already know this from playing cello. I just need to actually practice my violin more.

>playing keyboard
>swimming

My keyboard sucks and I probably still do too, but at least I have weighted keys now.

>>81494749
Those are good hobbies. Kind of parallel to mine, a creative hobby and a physical hobby

>>81493882 (OP)
Reading and other random intellectual shit

>>81494878
reading is a great hobby, I'm trying to read more canonical works these days. I just finished the Pentateuch and I'm roughly halfway through Beyond Good and Evil.

>>81493882 (OP)
throughout the years:
>drawing
>guitar, drums, piano
>songwriting
>recording and mixing
>reading
>journaling
>lifting
>languages
>woodworking
I want to learn everything but turns out, if you try to learn too many things you will suck at all of them.
Nowadays I just read, lift, journal, and play piano. I do woodworking if I need to build something, and I think I will find time in my schedule to study German soon.
I'm probably not playing guitar and drums ever again, I've spent too many years on those already, and recording and mixing is kinda useless since I gave up on playing in bands.

>>81495457
>if you try to learn too many things you will suck at all of them
This is how I am. I'd say that outside of work, I'm interested in improving at roughly six things, and I fear that is too many. But I have the time to learn them all.