I created a Playlist on my YouTube channel where I upload Practice Along Accompaniment Tracks for my students.
I recommend you'll make your own practice playlist for yourself out of these accompaniment tracks and make it your daily routine. So, whenever you start your practice session, you know what to practice and can get on it right away.
Click to see the YouTube Playlist.
Hello, there!
It's been a while since I post here. Lots of things happened to the studio. On the night of the hurricane Ida on Sep. 1st., the studio got flooded very badly that we needed to evacuate. We'd been moved to a temporary location for a while and, just recently settled into the new apartment in the same building on the 3rd floor.
I appreciated all the support messages from my students.
We'll be continuing to do in-person and online lessons.
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Here's my new violin lesson video.
I've been noticing that some students play a song and soon after take their instrument off their shoulders and put their hands on them to ease the ache and soreness.
That's a lot of tension on the shoulders.
And playing the violin in that state makes you feel dreadful. I know it because I've gone through the pain before. And I want to shout out that that shouldn't be the way it is. Playing the violin can be fun and easy on the body. With the right body stance and the movement.
I hope this exercise in the video helps to release the shoulder tension.
Here is a song from Super Mario Galaxy 2. I didn't know this song, but one of my students brought this song to learn, so I made a tutorial for it. Hope you'll enjoy!
I strongly believe that learning and playing the music you are enjoying listening to is one of the most effective way to get better and stay motivated for violin playing. It doesn't always have to be violin music, either. When you listen to music with the intention of wanting to play it on the violin requires your a lot of imagination. And it strengthen your musicality and gives you deeper understanding of music.
St. Patrick's Day is approaching. I used to play in an Celtic band for a few years and have traveled to many Celtic Festivals and Folk festival in the U.S. It was great to see many people loving the Celtic music and gathering around, playing, singing and dancing. This season always brings me back the fun memory.
In the last blog post, I posted the Irish bow exercise as an intro to learn this Irish jig.
Here is the part 2 of 2 video for "Irish Washer Woman", covering the melody part.
At the end, you can play with me with a loop backing track that I made.
Have fun!
St. Patrick's Day is coming up. Here is a tutorial of how to play "Irish Washer Woman" Part 1 of 2.
Jig has 6 eighths notes per measure.
To get a good feel, this warmup bow exercise will help to get ready for learning the melody with the Part 2 video.
Have fun jigging!
One of my students is working on this song and here is my play-along tutorial. Have fun!
Five (+) ways to practice "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
You can warmup with this song for any technical aspect you're working on and make up your own variation.
1. Yummy yummy cup cakes rhythm
2. Play on only E & G strings
3. Long bow with vibrato
4. Double-stops
5. Improvise with the chord tones.
