What To Look For In a Violin Teacher
Tue, 12/11/2012 - 3:42pm
When you’re looking for a violin teacher, you’re looking for someone who understands the learning process. No quality is more important. There are different violin teachers for different students, and different violin lessons for you at various times of your life, but they must all understand how the mind takes in and retains information. After that, the most important attributes for a violin teacher are knowledge of the violin’s mechanics, general musical and repertoire knowledge, skill as a player, and strength as a communicator. No single violin teacher possesses all of these attributes to the highest degree, but a weakness in more than one will make it very difficult for you to make good progress!
When you’re looking for a violin teacher, you’re looking for someone who understands the learning process. No quality is more important. There are different violin teachers for different students, and different violin lessons for you at various times of your life, but they must all understand how the mind takes in and retains information. After that, the most important attributes for a violin teacher are knowledge of the violin’s mechanics, general musical and repertoire knowledge, skill as a player, and strength as a communicator. No single violin teacher possesses all of these attributes to the highest degree, but a weakness in more than one will make it very difficult for you to make good progress!
Spanish Guitar or Classical Guitar: A Lesson on Leyenda
Mon, 12/03/2012 - 11:32am
In this video Jason Vieaux identifies some common trouble spots when learning how to play the famous Spanish guitar song "Leyenda". Many people often get confused by the distinction between classical guitar and Spanish guitar. Since Jason is an expert, we had him explain the difference:
I find that my travels now are great opportunities to tell people I meet in airports, planes and hotels about my online classical guitar lessons at ArtistWorks. Whenever I'm asked, "do you play in a band?" whilst on the road, I often respond that I play "Spanish Guitar", only because it's an easy answer in a busy world. Even though "Classical Guitarist" is a better umbrella description of what I do, "Spanish Guitar" puts the image into most people's minds of a guy or gal sitting, unamplified playing Spanish guitar songs or Latin American music - alone. And yes, I do that… kinda.
What I really do is play music by "Classical" composers from Spain and Latin America, with the requisite classical technique and musical study that is required to play it. I also play Bach, modern, pop and jazz arrangements, 19th century, lots of concertos with orchestra and chamber music, but that's not the point.
Free Online Classical Music Lessons Contest
Mon, 11/19/2012 - 4:19pm
Topics: classical
The ArtistWorks Classical Campus FREE Master Class Facebook contest gives you three months of free access to virtuoso musicians who can improve your technique and help you win auditions (a $299 value!).
Give us a (approximately) two minute sample of the orchestral excerpt of your choice. Upload it to YouTube and provide the link when you enter the contest on Facebook. The video with the most votes, wins!
The winner can choose from classical music lessons in one of the following ArtistWorks Classical Campus Schools:
Flute Solo: Orchestral Excerpt from Daphnis and Chloe
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 1:36pm
The big flute solo in Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe is possibly the most requested orchestral excerpt at flute auditions. It is a popular amongst the many flute audition pieces because it's an extremely challenging flute solo and thus shows a great deal to the judges about the technical and musical abilities of the performer.
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