The story
My son picked up a violin at 5. He was keen, his teacher was great — but he really struggled with something that sounds simple: understanding where his fingers belonged in relation to the notes he was reading.
I looked everywhere for something that could help him make that connection. An app, a game, anything. There was nothing. Everything out there either assumed he could already read music fluently, or skipped the fingerboard entirely.
So I built it myself. As an amateur violinist, I knew the colored tape method was standard — teachers put tape on the fingerboard to mark finger positions, and it works. That became the foundation of Violin Dots.
The app takes him all the way from open strings through to accidentals and challenging key signatures — everything he needs to build real fingerboard confidence, one level at a time.
