Learn the third position finger patterns in the 12 major keys. Improve intonation, muscle memory, and agility in third...
Violin Teaching Posts
Free Violin Studies on Wohlfahrt Etude No. 39!
The exercises below give you shifting, position, and bowing exercises that help you master this intermediate violin...
Mini Open String Exercises for Violin, Part Three!
We are excited to release Open String Bow Workouts for Violin, Book Three! Focusing on bow control, this book has...
Another Free Christmas Solo/Duet for Strings: Ding, Dong Merrily on High!
Make the Christmas season special with another free Christmas Solo/Duet for strings! Ding, Dong Merrily on High is...
Free Christmas Solo and Duet: Good Christian Men, Rejoice! (In dulci jubilo)
Three new Christmas books were just released! The Advent study books give you 25 warm-up exercises, solos and duet...
Introducing Our Newest Music Clip! Plus, Other Solutions for Keeping Pesky Music Books Open!
We teach with and practice with hard-to-open music books too. It has been so difficult to keep them open that we have...
7 Ways Duets Can Make Teaching (and Studying) Easier!
I had been teaching for a couple of years before I realized that there are a number of ways that duets can make...
Better Bowing Articulation: Free Mini Open-String Workouts for Violin, Book Two!
About a month after I wrote Open String Bow Workouts for the Violin, Book One, back at the end of 2019, I got the...
Forked Deer: Free Mini Fiddle Tune Booklet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass!
All of the music was ready. The snacks, the chairs, the stands; we were ready for anything. Myanna and I had spent...
Learn Violin Scale Spaces – Free Sheet Music!
One of the best ways to map the fingerboard for your mind and fingers is by learning scales. In this blog post, you...
Improve Your Violin Bowing: Free Mini Open String Workouts
This past year Theresa Villani, a wonderful cellist and cello teacher, wrote and asked if I had any exercises for...