Teaching – Page 3
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Focus5 tips from Max Grosch for improving jazz rhythm
The jazz musician shares his wisdom on ways to improve our jazz rhythm and internal sense of pulse
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How can I play jazz bowings on the violin?
Do you sound uninspired when you try alternative styles? How should you interpret the printed notes? Julie Lyonn Lieberman reads between the lines to bring life to your right hand
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Technique: Jazz soloing on the double bass
How to build from a simple bass accompaniment to an improvised solo line in a few basic steps
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How to nurture a musical prodigy
Early public exposure and adulation can overwhelm highly gifted youngsters. Catherine Nelson talks to expert teachers about how they help prodigies cope
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Bomsori: ‘The mentality at Juilliard was so different from what I was used to in Korea’
The South Korean violinist talks to Andrew Mellor about studying in the US and her experience so far of life as a professional soloist
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‘Practise difficult passages while standing on a rickety chair, or spinning around in circles’ – Evan Wilson
The former principal violist of the LA Philharmonic shares ideas to help you improve strength, endurance, flexibilty and control
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Musical groundbreakers: Ševčík’s female pupils
At the beginning of the 20th century, 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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UK music school ‘vicariously liable’ for sex abuse by violin teacher
Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester has been ordered to pay £45,000 in damages for assaults carried out in the late 1990s
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Analysis June 2021: Limited access
Most conservatoires depend on their annual intake of international students. What happens when a crisis such as Covid-19 affects the young musicians’ ability to travel at all? By Peter Somerford
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Technique: Left-hand calisthenics
Quick warm-ups to help you improve strength, endurance, flexibilty and control
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Accessories 2021: Teaching Online – Amplified Learning
Coronavirus has upended the lives and livelihoods of musicians around the globe – and one consequence has been the rapid growth of online instrumental teaching. Charlotte Smith looks at ways in which dedicated technology can enhance the experience without breaking the bank
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How should we articulate early music on modern instruments?
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Opinion: On the margins
Conservatoires should do more to make 17th-century music a fundamental part of the curriculum, writes Walter Reiter
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Henning Kraggerud: Life Lessons
The Norwegian violinist and composer explores the importance of finding a work’s inner meaning when creating one’s musical voice
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Technique: Early music articulation for modern instrumentalists
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Violist Geraldine Walther to head Colburn School chamber programme
Walther spent 14 years with the Takács Quartet, following almost three decades as prinicpal violist of the San Francisco Symphony
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Technique: Cello warm-ups - the left-hand
Exercises and advice to help string players develop a left hand that is strong, balanced and agile
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‘Open strings are just as interesting as a Brahms sonata’ – Coosje Wijzenbeek
In this interview from 2012, The Netherlands’ most celebrated pedagogue (and Janine Jansen’s teacher) tells us about her approach
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Hideko Udagawa: Life Lessons
Like her teacher Nathan Milstein, the Japanese–British violinist argues that technique isn’t everything
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Debate
Opinion: Follow the science
A teacher can never rest on their laurels with a pupil – it’s important to keep observing how things are going and ask questions, says Naomi Yandell
