1. You have to get the right instrument. In a perfect world, the only violin you want is the first violin you can afford. This price starts at $700 and goes up to $6000. It is a long and arduous road to get the instrument you want, but it will give you the peace of […]
I’ll choose viola. I think that I can do it in two years, at least. I want to make it as a soloist. I’ll never learn enough music to become a proper teacher, but I’ll be well-practised in classical music. What was the rehearsal like yesterday? I made an appointment to meet with a student […]
If your guitar is not playing, do not worry in most cases. A few months of vigorous regular exercise and a few good “sessions are all that it needs to get back to playing like the pro!” This is generally done by moving your neck slightly backward in a counterclockwise motion, which causes the upper […]
It’s extremely hard. And you have to learn every day. Why do you think that is? Because that’s an incredible commitment and a commitment that people, when they see someone that’s making the commitment, say, “Oh, they must be really good.” They do not take it. When I was young I would watch my older […]
What is a fiddle a violin or a viola? What was the “v” in “Voltaire”?” I have no idea what you might mean. I would have no objection to seeing you play a “fiddle,” as I am all for playing it. I would have no objection either, if you can prove by sound and not […]
You have the right to decide whether or not you are interested in a professional sport-related career. The fact that your parents made a conscious decision to send you to the musical instrument class of one of the finest classical schools in Boston should not make you feel that you have anything to lose in […]
Yes, a lot. If someone writes an instrumentation-rich piece of music like Liszt or Brahms and doesn’t know anything else about violin, they’ll get a lot more work done because they just want to make it sound great. If he has to worry about things like the size of the instrument, the sound of the […]
I haven’t studied it so I don’t know. In general, the easier you are to play the better your understanding of the instrument, but if you have a lot of wrong ways of thinking about it or you have already learned to play a difficult instrument and haven’t mastered it or learned anything special, the […]
No. The name “cello” refers to the combination of the instrument “c” and the strings as well as its sound. Because of the way it’s constructed and how it’s tuned, a “d” in the name makes no sense. Are all instruments made the exact same? Yes. It’s up to the user to make a unique […]
You know, like the good violinists can put out? In the studio? This post is also available as a podcast: This isn’t just some random thing I had in my mind – I tried hard to think of something cool, and I couldn’t find anything that did what I wanted. I tried to make the […]