Archive for January 21st, 2011
Can’t I Learn to Play Without Performing?
A good question—and as someone who has battled with extreme performance anxiety I would like to say “Yes,” however personal experience as well as research shows otherwise. I recently ran across a blog post (Kavbar’s Blog: Recital Retrieval) which does a very good job of explaining why we need to perform in order to learn. […]
Teaching Questionnaire
I was recently contacted by a fellow violin teacher to answer some questions regarding private lessons. She was asked to speak at a homeschool conference and wanted to get her peer’s insights into the material she was going to present. I was happy to oblige and I thought some of you might be interested in […]