How to Overcome Bow-Hand and Bow-Arm Tension on Strings
Before you can produce the smooth sound on violin, viola, cello, or bass, that attracted you to strings in the first place, you have to overcome that tension in the bow hand.
How To
Technique, advice, and tips.
How to Find the Best Warm-Up Routine for Strings
This 10-minute routine for cellists can easily be adapted for including violin, viola, and bass.
7 Strategies to Help Structure Your Practice Time
While we’re grappling with uncertainty and fear during this unprecedented time, many of us are also facing a new challenge: free time. Here are 7 strategies to help you handle uncertainty and use your free time more effectively.
Lean On Me: Finding Beauty and Expression in Appoggiaturas
Appoggiaturas are so powerful in terms of emotional content because they create an influence on harmony as well as melody.
Listen to the Past: 7 Tips on Learning Old-Time Fiddle
Learning old-time fiddle requires a lot of research with your ears open to the past. Here are 7 tips on learning how to play old-time fiddle.
Darol Anger Breaks Down Bluegrass from a Fiddler’s Perspective
By Patrick Sullivan
Exact numbers aren’t really Darol Anger’s thing. But over some four decades as a musician and educator, the incredibly versatile fiddler has... Read More...
How to Make Irish Fiddle Music Sound Irish
In this Celtic primer for classical players, learn classical vs. traditional bowing, plus three types of ornamentation, so you can capture the sound of Ireland.
Bring the Masters to your Practice Sessions: Every Recorded Interpretation of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major Provides a Valuable Lesson
By Brian Forst | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazineBach’s Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, are the perfect medicine for cellists trying to cop... Read More...
Silence: The Way in Which Great Composers Use the Absence of Sound has a Profound Impact on Their Music
By Evan Johnson | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazineSometimes we forget how important silence is in music. It has as many functions a... Read More...
All Motions Great & Small: How to Practice String-crossing Technique for Bariolage
By Laurie Niles | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazine“Bariolage” is a French word for a bowing technique that involves rapid changing ... Read More...