Practice Tips to for Fast Progress on the Violin
Practice makes perfect? Nope, it just makes permanent…
Fast progress on the violin is achieved with good quality practice.
Watch these free video violin lessons for tips:
Why Should You Practice Daily?
Practicing daily? Should you really? Yes! Why do you have to practice daily? Automated movements When you start playing you need to learn a lot of automated movements. If you want to program these in your brain, you have to repeat them a lot so your brain can process...
A Little Violin and Viola Study Secret Based on the 80/20 Rule
Have you also heard so many tales about that you have to study many hours a day to be able to play the violin or viola beautifully? Using the 80/20 rule for studying the violin/viola If you want to become a good violist, you have to spend time studying it. But most...
Does Your Practice Make Perfect? 5 Tips…
Shirley writes: Hello! I am a violinist and now retired violin teacher. I have a friend who has been playing about 10 years and is not progressing as she feels she should. I have seen her play and have given her some advice as her request on bowing. For some reason,...
Why Would You Record Your Own Violin or Viola Playing?
Recording yourself is a very powerful practice tool. Why? Facing problems while practicing: dividing attention When practicing playing the violin or viola, you focus on many things at the same time. Your main focus is on playing the piece itself and you might forget...
4 Violin and Viola Exercises You Can Do Silently While Watching TV!
Hello there, little couch potatoes! If you are a couch potato, but you would also like to be a very good violinist or violist... this video is must-watch for you! Do you feel like you don't have enough time to practice the violin or viola? How many hours a...
How To Make Your Personal Practice Schedule?
Practice make perfect! Yes, it certainly does, but only if you practice a lot in an efficient and effective way. Practice makes perfect: how to create your personal practice schedule When practicing to play the violin or viola, you may find yourself struggling to...
What To Do if You are Practicing Hard, but Your Playing Only (seems to) Get Worse?
How frustrating is it when you are practicing the violin or viola very hard... but the results are not there... even worse: your violin or viola playing seems to get worse. Sometimes you’ve been practicing for some time, but your playing only seems to get worse! For...
How to Learn to Play the Violin or Viola as Fast as a Child?
In this video I share secrets from violin teachers around adult beginners... People that learn to play the violin at an adult age get frustrated because they think they can never learn as fast as a child. Let me tell you two secrets from violin teachers: It is an...
How to Practice Daily While Being a Mortal?
Do you get all the results you want in playing the violin or viola? Do you get all the results you want on the violin or viola? Do you practice daily? If the answer to both questions is 'no', then this video is a must-watch for you! You know you have to...
Why Can’t You ‘Just Play Something’?
Are you having nice progress playing the violin or viola? When a friend or family member asks you to 'just play something'... does this scare you? Do you doubt what to play and how to play it? Do you have no clue what to answer to that question or what to do? Maybe...
9 Tips to Keep Your Teen Child to the Violin or Viola
Does your teen child seem unable to combine homework with violin or viola practicing? Consistently playing the violin or viola can be a struggle for all of us. So it isn’t a surprise that it is an even bigger challenge to keep your teen child motivated to play the...
3 Essential Improvisation Tips especially for Violin Viola and Cello players
Are you playing violin, viola or cello? Would you like to improvise? Do you want to improvise on a violin,viola or cello but don’t know where to start? Or would you like to learn how to improvise without knowing everything about chords? In this article I’ll share with...