next book: The First Hour by Amit Peled
What a wild couple months it’s been around here! Tamarack Arts launched, a semester...
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Tag: practice
Does your bow grip work?
Originally published 5 Jan 2008. I really wish I had somehow been able to wrangle the bow in the...
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music from another time
Originally published 11 Dec 2007. I still haul these pieces out now and again, and they continue...
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visualization: the mental mock-up
A short medium sized video about the importance of visualization and the difference between it and...
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stuff to round out your approach: studying scores and critical listening
Even if you can hear the music in your head when you look at a piece, it’s never a bad idea...
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vintage srcb, part 3: pinky pressure
Originally posted 9 January, 2008. This, and the next one, are two of the most popular posts on...
Read Morevintage SRCB, part 2: practice makes perfect, if you survive
Post originally published 12 June, 2007 I wish I could send my adult students to music school, if only just for a week. Not to be inspired by the hours and hours of practice or the tide of talent that floods the halls every...
Read Moresmall change, big results 3: improving your practice as illustrated by Dr. Who
In the third installment of this series, I’m going to encourage you to do something fairly radical: pay much MUCH more attention to your bow during your practice. Favor it. Examine it. Look to it as the cause of 80% of...
Read Moresmall change, big results 2: improving your practice, as illustrated by English period drama
If we think about the relationship between you and your instrument as a romance, practice can be seen as courtship. You’re getting to know about the cello, finding out about yourself, and making your intentions known. You...
Read Moresmall change, big results: improving your practice, as illustrated by MXC
The goal of this series is to provide you with several small changes in approach, presented one at a time, that will streamline and improve your practice process, while also reminding you that MXC* was perhaps the only...
Read Moreworkshop digest, part 1!
I promised the participants at Lone Star SCOR some kind of run-down on topics we covered...
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sticky wicket
I need your advice. I have a teenage student who has not responded positively to any...
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