Teaching – Page 3
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis November 2020: The devil and the deep blue sea
With a Covid-19 second wave looking increasingly likely in the UK, string teachers are faced with the choice of returning to work in schools, or continuing with online tuition. By Peter Somerford.
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Technique: Playing with expression
Ideas to help you experiment, and to find new sounds and means of expression on your instrument
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The Spice of Life: Teaching different styles
Too often string teachers shy away from embracing styles outside the Western classical canon, but in doing so they’re ignoring a wealth of useful skills and techniques, not to mention repertoire, writes Julie Lyonn Lieberman
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Technique: Artificial harmonics
How to use this less-common technique to improve harmonics, hand frame, intonation and bow control
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All for one: Nicola Benedetti
When violinist Nicola Benedetti launched her Benedetti Sessions at the beginning of this year she had no idea that the mass-participation workshops for string players and teachers would be stalled by Covid-19. Undeterred, she moved the programme online, which, as she tells Peter Somerford, was no bad thing
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Bach Cello Suites on the Double Bass: A New Register
Although learning Bach’s Cello Suites at pitch on the double bass has only relatively recently become commonplace, they are now featured on music college syllabuses around the world. Virtuoso bassist and conservatoire professor Leon Bosch explains how he introduces the works to his students
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Technique: ‘Speedrunning’
How to use a competitive video gaming approach to plan out your practice, maximise your technical efficiency and play consistently accurately on stage
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Analysis August 2020: Preparing for a brave new world
Conservatoires around the world are preparing for seismic changes in their teaching provision when the autumn term starts in September – and the problem of one-to-one tuition is just the tip of the iceberg
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Technique: Using Ševčík to tackle flying staccato on the cello
How analytical, targeted practice can help you to overcome any problem in the repertoire
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D. C. Dounis: Training the brain
For Demetrius Constantine Dounis, the secret of good technique came from developing the brain and memory, as well as the arms and fingers. James Dickenson examines what made his ideas so special, and why he became one of the 20th century’s most influential teachers
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Technique: Swing bowing
How to inject new rhythmic fluency and flexibility into your playing by working on jazz
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From the Archive: July 1920
In response to readers’ letters, violin pedagogue Alvin C. White tackles the difficult subject of when – if ever – someone might become too old to learn the violin
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Technique: Scales for violists
A system specifically for the viola, which has not been adapted from violin alternatives
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Music Therapy: A Different Way to Help
Music therapy can be a fulfilling profession for any musician looking to make a significant impact in the community. Violinist and music therapist Joy Gravestock outlines the routes to this rewarding career and describes a typical day in the field
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Technique: Legato and Lyricism
Ideas to help you grow your sound and articulate every note within each bow
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Technique: Training Musicality
Exercises and advice to help build musical awareness and understanding
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Béla Katona: A Pupil’s Perspective
Former Béla Katona student Dona Lee Croft, now a professor, recalls her lessons with the Hungarian pedagogue
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Béla Katona: A Teacher Through and Through
One of the 20th century’s greatest violin pedagogues, Béla Katona would have turned 100 this month. Tully Potter charts his life and career, and speaks to former pupils – mainly at London’s Trinity College of Music – about the success of his teaching methods
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Ask the Teacher - Roy Sonne
The Pittsburgh-based pedagogue asks his students to be adventurous and to watch clips on YouTube
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Ask the Teacher - Cathy Elliott
The London-based pedagogue encourages the use of practice charts, as well as musical games
