The Perfect Portable Music Stand Light Well, I’ve got the perfect stand and the perfect pencil holder. But I recently discovered that I also need to get myself a stand light! I’ve been having trouble reading my music at … Read More
The Perfect Music Stand Pencil Holder Are you tired of losing your pencil under all your music? Are you tired of it getting in the way when you turn pages? And where do you put your eraser and your … Read More
The Perfect Folding Music Stand Welcome to the first blog post in a series of product reviews on my favourite rehearsal gear! After a couple of years of piecing together the many things I need for orchestra, I finally … Read More
Creating an Authentic Aural Traditional Music Experience Fiddle tunes are short, catchy and pretty easy to memorize. When you put a fiddle tune in front of students, they just can’t wait to play it, and the violas, cellos, and … Read More
The Learning Potential of the Humble Fiddle Tune When I first moved back to the big city and started teaching string classes again, I wasn’t sure how I was going to approach teaching fiddle tunes to my students aside … Read More
The Practice of Celtic Music This is Part 2 in Fiddle Tune Season, a series about how to teach Celtic fiddle music to your violin, viola, cello and bass students. Many string players are curious about Celtic fiddle music and … Read More
It’s January and that means… it’s Fiddle Tune season in my classroom! Every year at this time, in all my classes, we get out the fiddle tunes. I choose this time because it tends be down-time from school performances, so … Read More
Yes, I’m still here! Been very busy working on many different aspects of SMT, including many hours of editing to bring you a really cool scale method for strings. More to come soon! Meanwhile, I made counting metronome tracks for … Read More
Wouldn’t you like a simple way to show students how to set up their left hand without, well…. their instrument? You know how it goes…. Once you put an instrument in their hand, they get all nervous and confused and … Read More
Acadian* Music for your Students Do you want to incorporate some French Canadian and East Coast fiddle music into your private lessons or classroom? Last week my daughter and I attended an awesome performance by our favourite Acadian group, Vishtèn. … Read More
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