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Music: a Sixth Sense
Learning a musical instrument is, to most, a new hobby, a chance to feel good about yourself, a way of meeting and socializing with new people. What many fail to understand is, that learning music adds a new dimension to your mind, and your general outlook on life and those you live it with. ...
Choosing a First Instrument
It is important to choose an instrument that is set up properly and is the correct size for your child. I recall several occasions when a new student arrived for a first lesson with an instrument that was too big or of poor quality. Two common problems that are easy to spot are pegs that don't...
Practice: the Nutritional Component of Music
At various points in my musical development, I have found myself asking teachers and colleagues for ideas on how to practice. I continue to do so to this day. It is a topic that I find fascinating, and one about which nobody can ever know too much. However, every so often I have received an...
Advice on Buzzes and Wolf-tones
A wolf tone is a very raucous and unsteady tone, which may seem to want to jump to a slightly different pitch or sometimes up an entire octave [1]. Wolf-tones appear on most cellos somewhere between the notes E to F sharp, particularly on the G string and in some cases the D string. Cellos are...
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Chopin Polonaise & the 'Virtuoso'
The definition of the term 'virtuoso' has not always been thought of as we do today. The meaning has changed from one of rather derogatory terms – the 14th century virtuoso singers improvised so much of what they performed that they were thought to have been possessed: “a bevy of singers who so...
my teaching philosophy
One of my students' dad told me that my student was trying to give up for the music lesson one year ago, because her teacher in France was so strict to her. For my teaching philosophy, only those who don't know the right way to teach, they will shout or yell to their students. Yes, you have to...
Editions, the Bach Cello Suites
Picking a good edition of baroque music such as the Bach Cello Suites can determine the difference between a good and bad performance. For the advanced player, the Barenreiter Urtext scholarly performing edition is an essential source of information. There are many performance practice issues...
Why the Cello?
Why choose the cello to learn? This is often a question I am asked when I play demo concerts in school assemblies and junior string concerts. My answer is simple. The cello is the most amazingly diverse instrument in the orchestra. No other instrument can sound like a beautiful voice, or...