Teaching – Page 8
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Quick exercises to improve string playing technique
Bruno Giuranna, Mimi Zweig, Bonnie Hampton and Boris Kuschnir reveal their secret teaching weapons
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The 4 stages of memorising music for performance
With the right concepts and skills, any musician can successfully learn music by heart, as Gerald Klickstein explains
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Violist Roger Chase on studying with Bernard Shore
Lessons with Shore at the Royal College of Music in London emphasised enjoyment and gave valuable technical insights, remembers the Chicago College of Performing Arts professor
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Sound quality should be the main focus of string teaching
Young students improve when they learn to listen to themselves, says Royal Northern College of Music senior lecturer in music education Philippa Bunting
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6 tips for launching a music career after graduation
As hundreds of young string players leave college in a few months, music careers expert Angela Myles Beeching hands on advice for life after graduation
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Me and my teacher: violist Toby Appel and Max Aronoff
A year spent studying nothing but technique with Curtis Institute teacher Aronoff gave future Juilliard School viola professor Appel total musical freedom
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8 ways to make music lessons interesting
Violinist Sid G Hedges gives advice to teachers on how to inspire enthusiasm in The Strad's June 1923 issue
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Technique: the importance of practising in 5ths
How the ability to play in perfect 5ths can help you to hone your position, intonation and vibrato
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Should music tuition revolve around passing exams?
Toby Deller argues that young players should be inspired by fulfilling experiences
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Technique: Walking bass
Essential foundations for producing a jazz bass-line with good sound, rhythm and harmony
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Ask the Experts: how to make the best use of limited practice time
Four specialists in practice techniques advise a busy amateur musician how to make the most of his limited rehearsal time
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Stringed instrument myths exposed
Have you heard the one about checking an instrument crack by spitting on it? What about washing your bow hair in hot soapy water? We separate fact from crackpot theory
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Ask the Experts: helping double-jointed students
Five teachers and health specialists respond to a reader's query on how best to teach a double jointed student.
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In the mix
The Edinburgh Quartet recently selected its 2019 apprentice, following a round of public auditions featuring performances from nine young musicians. As the training programme enters its third session, Toby Deller discovers a unique opportunity for rehearsal and performance
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Where there’s a will there’s a way
During two months in Uganda, Pauline Harding learns about the indigenous one-stringed endingidi, and discovers how difficult it can be to learn an instrument in a country whose education system lends little support for arts training
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Women of the World
At the beginning of the 20th century, as social attitudes towards women were changing, a small number of female violinists became internationally renowned. Linking the members of this intrepid group was the famous Czech string teacher Otakar Ševčík, as Rosalind Ventris discovers
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New Music Curriculum in UK Schools: Analysis
The ABRSM, the UK’s leading music examinations board, will be drafting a new ‘model music curriculum’ for the Government. Harry Whie asks why its appointment raised questions
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Masterclass: Dittersdorf Double Bass Concerto, K172
Berlin Philharmonic bassist Edicson Ruiz advocates Viennese tuning and a period bow to bring out the best in this sonorous Classical work
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Masterclass: Mendelssohn Variations Op. 17
British cellist Guy Johnston talks about dialogue, contrast and sense of line in the German composer’s Classical–Romantic work
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Masterclass: Beethoven String Quartet No 16 in F Major, Op 135, first movement
Casals Quartet violist Jonathan Brown scrutinises this movement and explains why this piece is less abstract and unruly than many musicians first assume