A violin has four strings, from the lowest note to the highest note they are G, D, A, E. It's like the lowest strings on a guitar, except backwards, which was extremely awkward at first.
Guitarists, if you want to get used to what notes on a violin feels like, lower your low E string to a D. This is drop D tuning, if you didn't know. Mess around playing single notes for a while. Try figuring out the Major scale. This really helped me get used to the violin's notes. I won't go too far into depth about that because it's not very related to the violin.
You're also going to need to know how to tune a violin. The pegs at the top are pretty hard to work with at first, because they are held in by friction and pressure against the hole they go in. They tend to go out of tune very often, so make sure to push those pegs in when tuning. If you have a guitar tuner, you probably know how to use it by now. You turn it on, then play the string to see if it's in tune. If it isn't, you twist the peg and try to get it as close to the proper note as you can. The fine tuners are located at the opposite side of the tuning pegs. Turn them to get as close to perfectly tuned as you can.
Keep in mind that when you bow your violin, it is putting tension on the strings and will make it sharp. It is best to tune your violin while bowing, not plucking the strings.
Rosin made confused me at first.. I didn't know what it was for or why it worked.. I didn't know why it was put on the bow. I still don't know why, but I put it on. I know that it's supposed to be put on slowly, and too much is bad... That's about all I know about Rosin. It still confuses me.
I haven't even gotten into playing notes yet. Too bad.
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