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 PastBy David BraggerTraditional old-time fiddle and its mesmerizing bowi... Read More...
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Tackling the Beginning of the Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
By Emily Wright | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazineElgar’s Cello Concerto has everything a player could dream of, with soaring them... Read More...
Tackling the runs in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
By Laurie Niles | From the July-August 2020 issue of Strings magazineLeopold Auer might have hit on some truth when he declared that the violin concerto wr... Read More...
Creativity and Technique Come Together in Fritz Kreisler’s ‘Praeludium and Allegro’
By Scott Flavin | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazineA major work for any advancing student of the violin, Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro i... Read More...
A Little Flash: How to Practice David Popper’s Gavotte in D
By Benjamin Whitcomb | From the March/April 2020 issue of Strings MagazineDavid Popper’s Gavotte in D major is a delightful, short work that intermediate c... Read More...
A Detailed Guide to Practicing Mark Summer’s ‘Julie-O’
By Benjamin WhitcombThe repertoire for cello is vast, and contains many single-movement works that are suitable as encores. One of the most distinctive is ... Read More...
Tips on Nailing Tricky Double-Stops in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
By Laurel ThomsenConsidered one of the world’s greatest violin concertos since 1845, when it was first premiered by its dedicatee, violinist Ferdinand Davi... Read More...
A Rhythmic Approach to ‘Receita de Samba’
By Catherine Bent
As choro—samba’s instrumental precursor—gains international popularity, many string players are drawn to its charms and challenges. It’s a goo... Read More...
Approaching Rhythm in Édouard Lalo’s Sonata for Cello & Piano in A minor
By Miranda Wilson
Anyone expecting Édouard Lalo’s cello sonata (1856) to sound anything like his cello concerto is in for a surprise. While the concerto, like ... Read More...
Tips on Approaching Campagnoli’s 41 Caprices for Viola
By Nicholas Cords
Bartolomeo Campagnoli’s 41 Caprices, Op. 22, are rarities in the realm of 19th-century studies in that they are actually written originally f... Read More...