When Yolanda Bruno started playing the last piece in our Music for Your Blues session, I could not place what I was hearing. It was so familiar, but so fresh on her fiddle. The theme came together into focus in a few short phrases, Little darling, it's been a long…
It's a new year! Carry over from before get off book, learn off book, practice off book, off book everything!On the road/Internet get-togethers - Old Time Rollick, Banjo Fest (maybe), Sierra Fiddle Camp in California, Mike Block Fiddle Camp in Verona Beach Florida, Blazin' in Beauly on 11-15th…
My hearing is changing within the last 2 days. I'm not sure what I did or what I didn't do, but on the right side I am regaining a bit more sensitivity. This isn't to say I can hear more, but just that the sensitivity is a bit higher so…
logic I'm trying out Henry Schradieck's School of Violin Technics Book 1 for the week, to review fundamentals in left hand fingering and right hand coordination. Schradieck has taken on a mythical reputation in the violin world as exercises that will transform violin playing if taken slowly enough (repeated and…
BAM Cabin violin case (blue) being sprayed down with soapy cleaner after an excursion into virus infected territory. Bow case on the left side just out of the picture frame.It is ironic to review a violin case designed for air travel during my second month of social isolation, but…
It's a bit hard to write about what I've been doing during these times. It's hard to put into words because it seems like I just need to take it day by day, and writing for me means remembering the past and imaging the future, no matter how positive or…
I'm carrying over the goals from 2019 since they worked really well! Well done 2019 me! Get even more off-book: learn off book, practice off book! Live and breathe off book! I have to "Know my shit" (as Scott says) for the SoundCrowd choir music and that needs…
For Christmas one year, my choir sang Sure On This Shining Night, composed by Morten Lauridsen. It's a beautiful piece of music, and it got me hooked on Lauridsen's other works. O Magnum Mysterium started as a choral piece, but versions for violin and orchestra and violin and piano were…