TEACH SUZUKI

Yesterday, I had a fun lesson with one of my young students. We came up with a little pinkie practice exercise to get her using the pinkie m...

I wrote an earlier article about teaching Etude, but in my current timeline of discussing Suzuki Violin Volume One, this is the place where ...

This practice tip is about building up speed in difficult passages but in a manner more advanced and complex than the earlier practice tip I...

Life is stressful, but violin playing and making music should not be. We should enjoy the beauty of creating music and expressing emotion wi...

I have never enjoyed warming up. I understand the reasons why warming up is a good thing, but in general, I have never been very good at it....

In the past year I have been reacquainting myself with the materials put together by Otakar Sevcik, a Czech violinist in the latter half of ...

In my last discussion, I talked about improving intonation by improving tone. Today I want to talk about awakening the student's ear and...