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practice makes perfect. if you survive.

by Emily Wright | Aug 31, 2019 | Teaching & Learning | 1 |

Originally published 12 June 2007. Near the end of this piece, I talk about resisting change and...

Having tough lessons? You have a choice.

by Emily Wright | Sep 14, 2009 | Teaching & Learning | 8 |

The way I see it, there is this thing, this Difficulty (capital D, for emphasis) to playing the cello. And it’s there; sitting, waiting, towering, looming, quivering. Many a student has tried to devise strategies to get...

Keeping a Bigger Perspective

by Emily Wright | Jun 22, 2009 | Being, Teaching & Learning | 7 |

I find this very useful. Want more?

seasons

by Emily Wright | Aug 19, 2008 | Being, Teaching & Learning | 8 |

Must be something about summer. We all kind of fall off of the horse in one way or another. Cellists stop practicing. Bloggers quit blogging (or go all sporadic, like me). L’s work parallels the TV season, and it’s...

a new way to think about progress

by Emily Wright | Jun 24, 2008 | Teaching & Learning | 6 |

Sometimes a change in perspective makes a long process more bearable. Enjoyable, even. I came to this realization a few days as I looked ahead with dread to the longest day of the year. I thought of the miserable summer to come,...

becoming what you are

by Emily Wright | Jun 18, 2008 | Being | 9 |

I am a big believer in messages to (and from) the universe. I think that everything one does is a message, a request. It’s that “you get what you give” thing, where the style of life you live is, in very little...

Maximizing your lesson experience

by Emily Wright | May 4, 2008 | Teaching & Learning | 7 |

Nearly everything about the cello is, upon initial inspection, prohibitive. It’s big. It’s low. It’s difficult. It’s expensive. It reads that clef you didn’t really master when you took piano...

lookin' good (soundin' bad) (for a while)

by Emily Wright | Nov 11, 2007 | Teaching & Learning | 3 |

Other possible blog titles include:Acting the partAll for showTest yer gesture (ha)As many of you know, I am in the business of teaching how to play the cello. I was about to write, “I teach the cello” but then I...