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Here are just a few of the many teachers offering Violin lessons in Raleigh . Whether you are looking for beginner guitar lessons for your kids, or are an adult wanting to improve your skills, the instructors in our network are ready to help you now!
Instruments: Piano Voice Violin Viola Keyboard
I begin teaching fine arts music in 1990. It was one of two jobs I had at the time. I worked for " Yje School of Gone Arts" in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma for a few years. Mrs Roger's and her daughter Thesa Loving owned and operated the nice school. I taught violin, cello, piano, voice and some drama. After my initial experience there. I was employed at " Newark Community School of the Arts" in Newark. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin
For beginning piano students, I typically start with Faber's Piano Adventures. I also use these books as a foundation for intermediate students. After students have grasped the basics, I will talk with them to determine their interest in different musical styles and songs. I will then add in supplementary material to go alongside the Piano Adventures books to give them a broader range of musical ability. Violin lessons are a combination of the Suzuki Method and Strings Builders. Read More
Instruments: Violin Fiddle
I like to create a relaxed and welcoming environment, and my students have commented on my approachability and my ability to create a nonjudgemental environment. Private lessons should be a place where students feel comfortable experimenting with what they have learned and being open to always learning new things without the fear of making a mistake. I help my students build a strong technical foundation so they have the freedom to express their creativity and play the songs that they have dreamed of playing, without any technical setbacks getting in their way. Read More
Instruments: Violin Viola
Its my greatest pleasure to help children and adults alike succeed and improve! In 1990 I first began learning violin and i never stopped since. I graduated from UNC-SA through both their highschool and collegiate programs. After earning my violin performance degree I continued to travel around the United States and Japan, teaching violin everywhere i went. When i returned in 2015, I joined the Durham Symphony and started performing with various symphonies throughout North Carolina. Read More
Instruments: Violin
Eventually, a students love for the violin will naturally lend itself to a desire for further violin instruction. Students who desire violin instruction progress the fastest. I give students the amount of instruction and new information that I believe they can handle but that will also help them progress as rapidly as possible without overloading them. Focus on technique: Over the past few years, I have been learning that there are key violin playing technique principles that many teachers and violinists do not understand. Read More
Instruments: Violin
What advice do you have about practicing effectively?
Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent! Too many students go home and just play through their music several times and say they've practiced. It's a habit that often remains with students even after they've reached more advanced levels. When a student does this, they are doing two bad things. First of all they are wasting their time, because you don't need to run through the whole piece 5 times a day. Secondly, and more importantly, they are practicing mistakes every time they play through without focusing on the difficult part, and they are making those mistakes more permanent each time they run it through. Instead I often make a list for my students of all the difficult parts and tell them to carefully practice those difficult parts before playin anything else.
Did you have a teacher that inspired you to go into music? How did they inspire you?
I had many wonderful teachers growing up and during music school, but no teacher had a bigger impact on me than Bud Fenstermacher did. Mr. Fenstermacher was an old man who had recently retired from playing in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and was teaching purely for fun. I came to him as an advanced violinist in my mid teens, but he completely re-taught me violin from the ground up. While doing so I learned a great deal from his method of teaching, which involved breaking everything down into manageable pieces and mastering them, and making each piece sing before putting everything together. It was like constructing a great art masterpiece one part at a time.
Why did you choose your primary instrument?
I grew up in a very large musical family. Most of us played instruments and a few of us went to music school and went on to pursue professional music careers. I chose violin when I was seven years old. After watching VHS tape recordings of Itzhak Perlman and Midori Goto I went to my Mom and told her that I wanted to "sing" the violin. It was soon after that the little seven year old me realized that "singing" the violin was not as easy as it looked. After my first few violin lessons I wanted nothing to do with the violin anymore as I thought it was too hard. But my Mom made me stick with it and practiced with me for 45 minutes every day (this was an eternity for a seven year old). One day when when I was ten years old I suddenly realized that I really liked playing the violin, and was also getting very good at it. Soon after that my Mom never needed to remind me to practice and instead had to pull me away from it to do homework.
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