Canada Day 2009

by Steve Maus on July 1, 2009

Despite the fact that this is a blog with many readers coming from various countries it’s nevertheless the Canadian Violin Blog.
Today, on July 1, 2009 Canadians celebrate the 142nd birthday of their nation, the so-called Canada Day.

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So, no matter if with or without your violin -

Happy Canada Day!

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All By Myself

June 21, 2009

This morning I stumbled upon a video a didn’t know so far. I couldn’t resist to share it with you.
Have fun!

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Maintenance

June 13, 2009

This weekend we’ll have a pretty extensive update going on here.
First of all the entire system will be upgraded to WordPress 2.8 – I think it will be a little faster and hopefully as stable as the previous version.
Second, the theme I’m using, Thesis, will be updated as well.
So, if anything looks a bit weird [...]

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The Secret of Practicing Part 11

June 7, 2009

Up to now I’ve been a little hesitant when it came to hints and tips concerning fingering and bowing since they are very personal and depend to a certain extent on our personal taste.
But I was asked about a particular passage in Bruch’s Violin Concerto that is much easier to handle with a different fingering [...]

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The Secret of Practicing Part 10

May 17, 2009

Today we’ll focus on the chords in Bruch’s violin concerto. We often come across those kind of chords in violin literature, so basically we can apply our practicing pattern there as well, no matter if we play Bruch, Vieuxtemps or Waxman.
Now let’s have a look at this:

At first glance a tohubohu of notes waiting to [...]

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The Secret of Practicing Part 9

May 3, 2009

Some weeks ago I was asked if I could provide some kind of operating instructions for Bruch’s violin concerto.
Well, it’s hard to do this, first because of the amount of information. If I wanted to write such an operating manual I would have to publish an entire book.
Second, because every violinist has different problems. Ideally [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 9

April 19, 2009

In the past weeks I got several questions about shifts, correct positions and exercises to improve shifts generally.
So let’s take a short break from our practicing series and let’s focus on shifts again.
In this article I’ve already mentioned Sevick’s “Op. 8″. A particularly amazing work when it comes to shifts. In that post I chose [...]

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Happy Easter!

April 12, 2009

Happy Easter to all of you folks!
Enjoy the time with your family and – of course – your violin!

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The Secret of Practicing Part 8

April 4, 2009

Shortly before the Easter week let us come to the question “how much time should we invest for practicing?” Or, to be more precise, how should we arrange our practicing time?
As a teacher I’m tempted to say “as long and as often as possible”. But this is only partly true. Our concentration will upset this [...]

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