Music festival is over for me for another year. It is always a stressful event for both students and teachers. It is impossible to know what someone else is going […]
Tag: fiddle
“It sounded so much better at home!” How many times have you said that to your teacher? Trust me, we all have! I know that I had that thought many […]
Recently two students came to me with the same concern. “One moment I can play the piece just fine, but when I try again, it is terrible!” Welcome to life as […]
It’s that time of year again. My students are coming back for their first lessons of the school year. I like to take this time to talk to them about […]
I was recently teaching one of my adult classes about playing double stops. My students told me that they were finding it difficult, and that they found that their violins […]
I recently had a pep talk with one of my students from Park St. Elementary School. She was struggling with playing some of the music that we had been working […]
I celebrated my birthday over Easter weekend, and realized that it was a year ago that I launched the Legacy Project, recording “Greenseleeves & Puddin’ Pies”, a CD of Christmas/seasonal […]
Fun with scales? Did I say fun? Ok, so, perhaps my idea of fun is a little twisted, but I do actually enjoy playing scales, and have several different ways […]
Have you ever been to a lesson and thought, “I hope that my violin teacher does not ask me to play that piece! I am having trouble with it!” I […]
History of the Fiddle: The medieval fiddle emerged in 10th-century Europe, deriving from the Byzantine lira (Greek:λύρα, Latin:lira, English:lyre), a bowed string instrument of the Byzantine Empire and ancestor of most European bowed instruments. The […]