Maybe you want to play a lesser known piece… or you play a tricky 2nd violin part in your orchestra and in recordings you can’t really hear this individual part.

In the end of the video I’ll show you a quick and easy way in which you CAN learn how ANY piece sounds exactly, but before that there’s something important I’d like to discuss.

This is a modern problem, because we can find everything online. In the old days we had no recordings at all and sheet music was the way to record music. Later we had to save up our money to get an expensive LP or CD.

When you look at sheet music… what do see? Do you instantly hear the notes in your inner ear?

Just as you can hear the words and understand their meaning, structure and expression of text in a book.

Or do you just see notes indicating the grip on your instrument?

If you can’t hear pitch and rhythm when looking at sheet music and you’re not able to sing it, you need to work on your ear training.

We call this solfège. I have some bad memories about that I share in the video.

It’s important to establish a connection between sound, note, note name and grip in all possible combinations.

When you can’t sing it, you probably can’t play it or aren’t able to correct yourself while playing.

Lots of violin students don’t want to sing, while it’s vital for your musical development. We’re not robots hitting notes. We need to be able to speak our musical thoughts through our instruments.

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