May 5, 2016 | Start to Play
This episode is about how many times you should repeat something while practicing the violin. We all know practice makes perfect. Did you know in some cases too many repeats can make your playing worse? It’s been researched that five to nine repeats is most...
Apr 29, 2016 | Start to Play
In this episode I comment on a video sent in by a viewer who wants to improve her vibrato as a beginner violinist I’ll teach you how to loosen up your wrist, so you can create a beautiful sounding vibrato and control it’s tempo Tape your orchestra scores together in...
Apr 22, 2016 | Bowing Technique
You might have noticed that there are so many ways to bow and so many bowing techniques. There are so many ways to color your sound on the violin with bowing. It might be confusing that there are so many possibilities. What would be the standard way of bowing (if...
Apr 14, 2016 | Play Comfortably
This episode is specifically about the movement of your left arm while crossing strings. Also watch my other videos about string crossing more focussed on the bowing technique of it: How to Cross Strings without Noise How to Smoothly Switch between Strings with your...
Apr 6, 2016 | Music Theory
This is the episode a lot of violists have been waiting for! Do you annoy yourself on the fact that so much beautiful music is available for the violin and that you can buy every song in sheet music, but for the viola you can’t find it? This video explains...
