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Lessons are fun! My philosophy is that students should have music in their lives and benefit from the lessons they take now for years to come. Learning to play a musical instrument will help students with math skills, study habits, and develop a skill that will last for a lifetime. After 3 months students will understand the fundamentals of their string instrument or voice, know how to care for their instrument, warm up properly, be able to read and play/sing introductory passages. After 6 months the student will have learned basic music theory, how to read music, and have advanced through playing/singing multiple songs. I have a violin and viola that I bring to assist in teaching lessons. I expect that the students provide an instrument and their books. A keyboard or piano is essential for voice students for vocalization, and an ipad or tablet keyboard works great. A student need not know how to play piano in order to take voice lessons.
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I usually begin with warm-ups, scales, music theory, then continue with reviewing past homework, focusing on posture, rhythm, technique, etc. Lastly, we will sightread and preview the next pieces to be assigned for homework. Pace is set mostly by the student and how much they practice, but I will always nudge the student to improve in musicianship and posture after every lesson, with patience and perseverance.
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My teaching method is based on the education I received from four great violin pedagogues who were representing the three prominent Russian, Belgian, and American schools, and also my 27 years of training students. In one hour of my comprehensive teaching, I work extensively on both right and left hand technique, with emphasis on scales, arpeggios, and etudes...which ultimately will result in good tone production, double stops, vibrato, and more importantly, high quality performance. Pieces of music are normally chosen from a huge selections of violin literature or from Suzuki books. Students show very good progress in a short period of time, and they are very soon able to produce beautiful sounds from their instruments, accurate intonation, strong vibrato, correct rhythm, and great musicality. They develop a positive attitude towards the acquisition of the art of violin playing, and look at the learning process as a fun experience, especially when they are exposed to a new piece of music, whether it is a simple song such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star or a major composition such as the violin concerto by Beethoven or Wieniawski. I know how to make the violin fun and enjoyable for students and they whole-heartedly enjoy playing the violin even more when they begin to execute vibrato during their playing and performances.
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I have loved music since the beginning. Growing up in a musical family allowed me to learn various music skills even before starting an instrument. Throughout junior high and high school I auditioned for and joined the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra in Orange County, California as well as various annual honor orchestras throughout the sate of California. In 2003, I became concert mistress of Vanguard University's Concert Orchestra for 5 years and performed solo and ensemble works as the first violinist during that time, as well as touring China and South Korea to perform as principle violinist with Vanguard University. Since then, I have had the opportunity to play with various orchestras including the Orange County Symphony.
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