Today I’ve started learning violin. I think my violin teacher is giving lessons the indian way. The strings are named 1, 2, 3, 4, rather than E, A, D, G - the normal standard. The swara, note in telugu way are
sa , ri, ga, ma
pa, dha, ni, sa.
The fingering positions are slightly different from the normal first position I’ve seen.
These are the fingering positions:
sa open A string 
ri 
ga 
ma 
pa open E string 
dha 
ni 
sa* 
The practice exercise for just playing the violin is just using bow on sa and pa for 20 times without gaps, for now, I am doing a bad job not delaying and changing the A and E string at once easily
for a song each part consists of four notes,
My first practice song is simple it’s called: maaya maalava goula raagam - aadhi thaalam
sa ri ga ma , pa dha ni sa*
sa* ni dha pa , ma ga ri sa
combinational notes
2.
sa ri ga ma, sa ri ga ma, sa ri ga ma, pa dha ni sa*
sa* ni dha pa, sa* ni dha pa, sa* ni dha pa, ma ga ri sa
3.
sa ri ga ma, sa ri sa ri, sa ri ga ma, pa dha ni sa*
sa* ni dha pa, sa* ni sa* ni, sa* ni dha pa, ma ga ri sa
4.
sa ri ga ma, pa ma ga ri, sa ri ga ma, pa dha ni sa*
sa* ni dha pa, ma pa dha ni, sa* ni dha pa, ma ga ri sa
5. here paa refers to pa and pa in first instance
similarly maa refers to ma and ma in first instance.
Things change in second instance,
paa changes to slightly slower elongated note in
* `second instance` --> which is twice faster than `first instance`.
* `third instance` --> which is twice as fast as `second instance`.
sa ri ga ma, paa paa , sa ri ga ma, pa dha ni sa*
sa* ni dha pa, maa maa , sa* ni dha pa, ma ga ri sa
6.
saa* ni dha, nii dha pa, dhaa pa ma, paa paa
ga ma pa dha, ni dha pa ma, ga ma pa ga , ma ga ri sa