All string-teaching articles

Review

Book review: Stringtastic Beginners

2022-01-25T23:59:17.203Z

Alex Laing reviews the latest teaching method from Faber, for violin, viola, cello and double bass    

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Should all string players learn how to improvise?

2016-08-22T00:00:00Z

Dutch violinists Martin Norgaard and Tim Kliphuis believe teaching children improvisation and alternative styles of music should be a requirement of string lessons in the 21st century, writes Pauline Harding

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Electric instruments can be helpful tools for group string teaching

2016-06-10T00:00:00Z

Julie Lyonn Lieberman describes ways that electric instruments can inject energy into group learning sessions

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Limits of the system – is too much expected of El Sistema?

2013-10-24T00:00:00Z

As new research into El Sistema-inspired projects in England is announced, Michael Quinn asks if too much is expected from, and invested in, imports of the fabled Venezuelan music education programme