Hi everyone! Here’s another entry in our Let’s Play series. This time we will take a look at Suzuki’s Twinkle Variation B. There are five variations total culminating in the theme (the nursery rhyme we all know and love). The Twinkle variations keep the same pitches and order of pitches as the original nursery rhyme, […]
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Household name If you’ve been in the violin game for any longer than sixty seconds, you’re likely to have heard about the fabled, mythical, and legendary Stradivarius violins. These instruments are lauded as the pinnacle of musical engineering. They often sell for millions of dollars. For the most part, only the most accomplished and revered
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To grow, go with a pro Gather round, friends, for today we speak of the great and mysterious violin lesson! Ok, so it’s not so mysterious. But violin lessons are great! I’ve been playing violin for twenty plus years, and of those years, I will have taught music professionally for sixteen years. I’ve sat under
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Old School Meets New SchoolElectric violins have been available for a long time. The first ones became available during the 1920’s. They’re incredibly cool and versatile to use. You’ve probably seen them used by performers such as “Nuttin’ But Strings”, Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band, or Lindsey Stirling.They are built off of the same
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Pitch perfect Hey everyone! If you’re like me, you enjoy having lots of options when it comes to your purchases. I don’t like to settle. I like to tailor my acquisitions to best meet my overall needs. Well, fortunately for us, that’s exactly the position we find ourselves in when it comes to violin tuners!
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Elementary Essential Elements, my dear violinist. That’s what this article is about. There are a myriad of different methods for learning the violin. Such as the Suzuki Method for learning the violin. Many of them are quite usable and do a good job of teaching students how to play. However, each method has it’s strengths
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Why Suzuki? The Suzuki Violin method is a group of books containing songs/pieces of educational significance. As with any method, it starts out very simple and works it’s way up from there. I personally have found a great deal of merit in using this method under the right conditions. However, I will start out by
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We need to talk So you’ve got your fiddle, your music, your music stand, and you’re about to dive head first into a practice session. You think you’re ready. Nay. You KNOW you’re ready. You’re going to walk out of that room playing like the result of a mad scientist’s efforts to combine Paganini and
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Hi everyone! This is part of our Let’s Play series where I play songs slowly for you to be able to play along easily. This is for after you learn the piece, but before you have it polished and at full speed. Please, pay no attention to the terrible thumbnail. The piece we are playing
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A Violin Bow Buying GuideSo you bought your violin outfit. You’ve been playing for a while now and you notice that your bow just isn’t producing the sound you want. You notice that the bow is on the heavy side, that you’re not moving as nimbly as you see other violinists. Perhaps you are making
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