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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 use Suziki Violin Method, Bastian for piano. I have also been developing my own method, and it's dependant in the students agenda. I encourage the building of reperatore early on. I have also used Liytle Einstein piano method and varies products produced by Hal Leonard. I find the students goals are very formative to the approach I choose to take. Sole students are doing the study for sheer personal enjoyment others are more serious and want to make a career out kf mus8c as they mature. Read More
Instruments: Piano Violin
I believe the best teaching method is one that focuses on the accomplishments of each student. I have several different rewards systems that I will use to motivate students to practice at home. Part of this system is encouraging my students to set their own realistic goals and walking them through how to reach them. Additionally, I am a big believer in affirmation and will do my best to encourage each student throughout the lesson. Read More
Instruments: Violin Viola
As a teacher i encourage my students to keep improving and progressing to the best of their ability. While I can be strict, I always try to make lessons fun, especially for young children because it is essential to their learning capability that they enjoy learning their instrument. Students are given opportunities, words, and support to increase their self confidence while constantly challenging them so that they can make the greatest strides possible to their own personal level and learning speed. Read More
Instruments: Violin
I have been playing the violin for the past nine years and have had four excellent violin instructors, each with different backgrounds and approaches to violin instruction. Because of this, I have had well-rounded education in the violin which is a great benefit in my violin teaching. Up to this point, I have taught violin to six different students and have seen each of them make remarkable progress. Not only have my students enjoyed their time with me, but I have also looked forward to and planned for each of their lessons throughout the week. Read More
Instruments: Violin Fiddle
I use a variety of different methods and I tailor my curriculum to each individual student, offering you a personalized approach that is unique to your personality and learning style. I teach repertoire from the Suzuki Violin School and Barbara Barber's Solos for Young Violinists, I also like to incorporate other styles if the student is interested, such as fiddle and bluegrass, and even pop and Disney songs. I also use etude and scale books to help build and enhance certain techniques, such as Wolfhart Etudes, Barber Barber Scales for Young Violinist, Carl Flesch Scale System, etc., depending on the level and individual needs of the student. 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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