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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: Violin Viola
Ive been performing violin for almost 20 years, teaching for 15 years, and running my violin studio here in NC for the last 6 months. I currently teach for Kidsnotes in Durham, as well as running my own music studio, and I am able to teach children of any age. My specialty lies in identifying the needs of every student, and providing them with the tools, performances, and motivation they need to achieve greater heights! Read More
Instruments: Violin
Teacher interaction with hands-on at lessons: In order to help students understand the feeling of correct violin playing, I occasional assist them in such ways as guiding the bow, hands, and arms. Student interaction: I want every one of my students to be engaged and excited while learning the violin. My aim is to combine fun with learning. I want to make learning the violin enjoyable for them. More important to me than the material that is covered is if my student learns to love music, specifically the violin. Read More
Instruments: Guitar Violin Fiddle Acoustic Guitar
My private students have won spots in All-County and All-State Orchestras and have gone on to study Music Performance in college. I teach students of all ages and playing levels, and I like to emphasize the importance of learning proper technique in my lessons, as building a solid technical foundation gives you the freedom to explore your creativity without the frustration of having to overcome technical barriers on their own. Read More
Instruments: Piano Voice Violin Viola Keyboard
Good day ! I have been a musician. all of my life, started training in my early childhood. It's been a pleasure and a joy. I trained at Eastman Conservatory of Music o atthe University of Rochester, New York in the mid 80's. I also studied at Oral Roberts University, where I was preparing for a Performance Degree with an emphasis in Education. I have also taught sence 1990, both strings and piano. 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
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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