Learning and Practicing the Violin
From the monthly archives:
I hope you made good progress with your scales, which are a little dry, I must admit. But they are excellent exercises to improve speed, precision and intonation. Today we have a look at the remaining part of the scales on one string. Let’s start with the thirds: This time we have four notes on [...]
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Actually I planned to post an article about the bow hold. But in the past weeks there have been several questions about practicing scales. So, here we go. A couple of years ago one of my teachers told me something like this: Everybody who wants to have at least a little success on the violin [...]
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Have you got an iPhone? Did you ever have a look at the vast array of applications, the so-called apps downloadable from the iTunes store? There are thousands of applications coping with all imaginable tasks, starting from a simple to-do-list to scientific calculators, from project planning to entire dictionaries. Of course there are various musical [...]
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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. So, no matter if with or without your violin – Happy Canada Day!
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