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Monthly Archives: December 2008
A Student’s Guide to Learning a New Piece
Check out a post I wrote over at Double Bass Blog for students learning a new solo. It has a worksheet and flow chart to assist learning.
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Solo Learning Tool for Young Players
Here’s a tool I’ve recently developed to help my middle school students learn their solos for our upcoming solo festival. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Lesson Assignment Sheet
There are many tools to help your private lesson students remember their assignments and complete their tasks. Shar Music offers a very useful Musician’s Practice Planner. I use it with some students as well as myself. But sometimes something simpler … Continue reading
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Happy Holidays
I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday season. Posts will be sporadic due to the holidays.
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Consulting
Is your school setting up an instrumental program? Are you wondering where to start with purchase orders, curriculum, music, and assessment? I can help! I have 13 years of experience teaching all levels and have saved everything throughout the years!! … Continue reading
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Learning an ornament
I posted a new practice page on learning ornaments. Check it out.
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Keeping it light…
Here are a two funny scores… You can click the thumbnails for larger images.
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GOOD Orchestra News
A few weeks ago as I was driving to conduct my middle school orchestra rehearsal (at 7am) I was listening to National Public Radio (NPR). Since the election is finally over they have resumed interesting programming and this morning were … Continue reading
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Practice Tools
Check out some practice tools I blogged about at Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog.
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Motivation, Discipline, Goals… and just plain stick-with-it-ness!
I’m a fairly disciplined guy – I get up early, I exercise daily, and practice almost every day. I eat healthy. I save 20% of my income. I also try to have a social life and hobbies. But all of … Continue reading
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Game Day
Below is a newsletter / article from speaker and best-selling author, Jon Gordon. This one talks about practice and the performance. — Game Day “You don’t love me. You don’t care. You’re not taking this seriously,” my wife said to me … Continue reading
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Even more…*groan*
Golden Rules For Ensemble Playing by J.W. Swing
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Mute Pictures
I posted some pictures of my clamp mute in use over at Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog.
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Some favorite quotes…
“A life out of balance produces no greatness. ” Dr. James E. Loehr “All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one’s faculties.” … Continue reading
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How about a laugh?
How about some humor… Here are some things I’ve found – I don’t claim them as original. ___ Doctoral Music Exam – you have 1 hour.
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Need Stock Photos? (shameless plug)
Are you a designer, artist, or webmaster? If you’re looking for stock photos check out these sites that have my photography: Shutterstock.com
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Practice Record Thoughts
Should you use a practice record? I have found that practice logs can be very useful depending on how they’re used. I use mine (currently the iPhone app GoalKeep) to see patterns and how im doing keeping up with practicing.
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iPhone Practice Tips
First, to track my time I use Chronology. It’s a great, simple little app that supports multiple timers. And you can see that I also use it for my laundry . Second, I have my practice playlist. I have used … Continue reading
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A Better Mute
You can achieve a better muted sound with a clamp like this one. Plus it won’t fall off and you can get different effects depending where you clamp it. For example, you can put it by the G string for … Continue reading
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