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Does your bow grip work?

by Emily Wright | Nov 30, 2019 | Teaching & Learning | 6 |

Originally published 5 Jan 2008. I really wish I had somehow been able to wrangle the bow in the...

music from another time

by Emily Wright | Nov 28, 2019 | Performing, Teaching & Learning | 3 |

Originally published 11 Dec 2007. I still haul these pieces out now and again, and they continue...

visualization: the mental mock-up

by Emily Wright | Nov 1, 2019 | Teaching & Learning | 0 |

A short medium sized video about the importance of visualization and the difference between it and...

stuff to round out your approach: studying scores and critical listening

by Emily Wright | Dec 5, 2017 | Teaching & Learning | 1 |

Even if you can hear the music in your head when you look at a piece, it’s never a bad idea...

vintage srcb, part 3: pinky pressure

by Emily Wright | Jan 8, 2016 | Teaching & Learning | 0 |

Originally posted 9 January, 2008. This, and the next one, are two of the most popular posts on...

vintage SRCB, part 2: practice makes perfect, if you survive

by Emily Wright | Jan 3, 2016 | Teaching & Learning | 1 |

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...

small change, big results 3: improving your practice as illustrated by Dr. Who

by Emily Wright | Aug 29, 2015 | Teaching & Learning | 6 |

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...

small change, big results 2: improving your practice, as illustrated by English period drama

by Emily Wright | Jul 21, 2015 | Cello Illustrated, Teaching & Learning | 7 |

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...

small change, big results: improving your practice, as illustrated by MXC

by Emily Wright | Jul 14, 2015 | Teaching & Learning | 2 |

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...