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Why Play Scales?
I have had quite a few students ask me why we play scales. One keeps saying they are boring and have no interesting melody. That is probably true. However, their benefits are surely extraordinary. Legendary violinist Jasha Heifetz mentioned on several occasions the importance of daily scale...
How to Explore Repertoire
Many people choose to play an instrument because they like the sound of learning something new and challenging. This is all very well, and a good foundation of initial motivation. However, too many people make the presumption that learning an instrument is all about the instrument, and not...
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki
I cannot extol the virtues of this man enough, I would have loved to have met him. I particularly like his belief that 'talent is no accident of birth'. Suzuki devised the 'Mother Tongue' approach to learning the violin: the core concept of this is that students learn how to play by ear before...
Playing Music in Groups
When you start learning an instrument or learning to sing, I recommend that you join a group such as an orchestra, band or choir as soon as you can play all the notes and read a bit of music! Singing is particularly beneficial to your musicianship and really good fun too. If you are learning an...
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Being a violinist.
Being a violinist -The violin is an amazing instrument. It can do so many things. It has a wide range producing notes very high and very low. You can make a wide variety of different sounds on the instrument and it has an enormous amount of repertoire written for it. At every possible stage...
How I Chose the Violin
I come from a musical family and, when I was aged 3, we went to stay with another family of violinists in a beautiful cottage. I was enchanted with the place, and in particular with all of the violins around the house. The father of the family looked a bit like a pirate with a gold tooth - he...
How to Practise
As a teacher I am often asked how much practice a student should do. I can thoroughly recommend Simon Fischer's 'Basics' - it really is the string player's Bible of how and what to practise!
Violin Beginner Methods
For violin beginners, I would like to recommend a particularly good Tutor Book which seems to be relatively unknown in the UK: It's called Der Junge Geiger (The Young Violinist) by Fortunatow (available on www.musia.de), and good music shops in the UK can order it for you. It offers a very...