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This looks like a lot- but I believe you will recognize most, if not all of these practice techniques that we’ve done in our lessons. Enjoy 🙂 For intonation (pitch accuracy):......
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Sounding good once is wonderful – but can we do it again? We tend to spend hours and hours practicing what we want to improve and analyzing why things don’t......
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What does taking risks mean when we’re playing music??  First of all, when you’re playing in an orchestra as a section member with lots of other players playing exactly the same......
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Revisiting Long-Time Friends! What a great privilege it is to have been around the viola-chamber-music-block enough times through the years to have performed the iconic repertoire many times over. As......
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Have you ever had trouble just thinking about getting your instrument unpacked to start practicing during a break?? Well, to be fair- yes, a break should be A BREAK- but......
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Hello! I just finished my 25th summer at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival in Blue Hill Maine. As every summer, including this one- the teaching and performing......
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Okay- we violists (and violinists) have a total of four fingers to use. We can all agree that our 4th fingers are often by far the weakest finger. So we......
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