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String Courses 2024: Start your course hunting here!

2024-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Before you start combing through the string courses listed in our guide, take a look at these suggestions to help find the course that’s right for you

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How to adapt the Suzuki Method for adult learners - violinist Meghan Faw

2024-09-04T09:10:00+01:00

Using the method while teaching adults requires a different approach from teaching children, writes the Suzuki-trained violin teacher

Ray Chen_June 2018_Photo Credit John Mac (1)

Ray Chen: ‘Practising with others pushes you to improve’

2023-03-23T13:34:00+00:00

The violinist shares his approaches to practice, in line with his community-based app Tonic

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6 tips for empowered recording: Susanna Klein

2023-01-05T08:33:00+00:00

In the first of a three-part guide to practice strategies, the violinist gives advice on how to reap the benefits of recording yourself in your practice sessions

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20 reminders for musicians: Cellist David Finckel

2022-11-30T13:27:00+00:00

David Finckel shares 20 pieces of advice on big-picture topics often forgotten in the teaching room

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A Musician’s Ten Commandments: Cellist David Finckel

2022-10-26T08:56:00+01:00

How to enjoy a sustainable and fulfilling musical career through ten guiding principles

BeginnerVn

Ask the Experts: how to help a beginner pupil with intonation issues

2022-09-14T11:15:00+01:00

Strad readers submit their problems and queries about string playing, teaching or making to our experts

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Opinion: How learning a language can inform musical practice

2022-09-05T07:32:00+01:00

Naomi Yandell’s efforts to learn a language using Duolingo have inspired her to rethink the way she teaches her own students, particularly with regard to repetitive practice

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Neesa Sunar: How I use the mutuality of Intentional Peer Support in my music teaching

2022-08-10T23:16:00+01:00

To aid students who have hit a barrier in learning, violist and clinical telehealth therapist Neesa Sunar provides four teaching scenarios which benefit from the empathetic approach of Intentional Peer Support

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‘I can see good tone’ - Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises

2022-08-08T09:42:00+01:00

With musical examples, Helen Brunner examines how Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises are used to create a beautiful sound on the violin. From the September 2021 issue

Guides

Photo for The Strad 2023 (4)

String Courses 2024: Start your course hunting here!

2024-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Before you start combing through the string courses listed in our guide, take a look at these suggestions to help find the course that’s right for you

ACS_0229

How to adapt the Suzuki Method for adult learners - violinist Meghan Faw

2024-09-04T09:10:00+01:00

Using the method while teaching adults requires a different approach from teaching children, writes the Suzuki-trained violin teacher

Ray Chen_June 2018_Photo Credit John Mac (1)

Ray Chen: ‘Practising with others pushes you to improve’

2023-03-23T13:34:00+00:00

The violinist shares his approaches to practice, in line with his community-based app Tonic

empowered recording

6 tips for empowered recording: Susanna Klein

2023-01-05T08:33:00+00:00

In the first of a three-part guide to practice strategies, the violinist gives advice on how to reap the benefits of recording yourself in your practice sessions

DSC_0062_psd_horiztonal

20 reminders for musicians: Cellist David Finckel

2022-11-30T13:27:00+00:00

David Finckel shares 20 pieces of advice on big-picture topics often forgotten in the teaching room

Guides

Cello-Reading-at-Menlo-1000x500

A Musician’s Ten Commandments: Cellist David Finckel

2022-10-26T08:56:00+01:00

How to enjoy a sustainable and fulfilling musical career through ten guiding principles

BeginnerVn

Ask the Experts: how to help a beginner pupil with intonation issues

2022-09-14T11:15:00+01:00

Strad readers submit their problems and queries about string playing, teaching or making to our experts

pexels-nothing-ahead-4440715

Opinion: How learning a language can inform musical practice

2022-09-05T07:32:00+01:00

Naomi Yandell’s efforts to learn a language using Duolingo have inspired her to rethink the way she teaches her own students, particularly with regard to repetitive practice

Manhattan1

Neesa Sunar: How I use the mutuality of Intentional Peer Support in my music teaching

2022-08-10T23:16:00+01:00

To aid students who have hit a barrier in learning, violist and clinical telehealth therapist Neesa Sunar provides four teaching scenarios which benefit from the empathetic approach of Intentional Peer Support

22665_fig1circletraining_763699

‘I can see good tone’ - Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises

2022-08-08T09:42:00+01:00

With musical examples, Helen Brunner examines how Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises are used to create a beautiful sound on the violin. From the September 2021 issue