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...
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...
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,...
Do you feel your violin playing has reached a plateau? Are you afraid that ‘this is all’ and that you lack the talent? It was in the fourth year of conservatory that my playing only seemed to get worse It was even worse than getting stuck. After spending...
Can you teach yourself how to play the violin? Can you learn to play the violin without a teacher? Look, whether you have a teacher or not: in violin playing (and music making in general) we’re ALL self taught. If you have weekly lessons and practice daily: most...
