by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | May 10, 2019 |
Should you keep practicing daily or is it even good to leave your violin at home during your holiday? To get good results on the violin it is NOT absolutely necessary to keep practicing daily on holiday. It can even be good to let your mind and body rest, so the...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | May 3, 2019 |
Do you feel lost when looking at that new piece you want to play? Use these 6 practice strategies to learn beautiful music fast and play expressively: If playing through the piece endlessly is not the most effective way to learn. Perhaps that worked in your first...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Apr 22, 2019 |
Your general playing technique improves, but your tone production is behind? Perhaps you make this mistake in practicing the violin: Do you catch yourself not minding a bad tone when you’re practicing scales for intonation or when you’re discovering a new...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Apr 19, 2019 |
This is one simple tip gets you big results from your violin practice Practice makes permanent, not perfect! Do you know those 10 hour YouTube videos with a movie quote, like Hitler saying ‘nein nein nein’ for hours? I often joke to my students that one...
by Violinist Zlata Brouwer | Mar 28, 2019 |
You don’t need to push yourself every day to learn to play the violin You can get fast progress without discipline! Use this strategy instead: As a small business owner my to-do list is enormous and my work is never finished. After eleven years of pushing,...
