There is method to the mastery
When it comes to getting all those notes, rhythms, dynamics, and articulations under your fingers, you've got to use every trick in the book. In this episode, we talk about how we get through our …
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A recent change of plans at the LA Phil leads us to reminisce on other times we've had conductors cancel. What happens when the audience is waiting and the show must go on? Transcript Nathan …
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Happy New Year and new season of Stand Partners for Life! In this episode, we take a look back at resolutions we've made about our playing... and not all of them stuck! From scale practice to …
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We've finally reached part 3 of 3! It's time to take our trill preparation from the first video and the Trill Drill from the second video to the third level, with what I call "Trill Drill: Double …
It's time to take our trill preparation from the last video to the next level, with what I call "Trill Drill"! It's part of my daily warmup, and here I've spiced it up with a deck of interesting …
We were pretty good back in the day, but even so we weren’t winning auditions on our own. Here are those moments when we got a helping hand! …
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