Nathan Cole - violin
There is method to the mastery
To download this arrangement as a PDF, scroll down to just above the video... During this time of trouble, hordes of unaccompanied pieces for every instrument have crawled out from under their …
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Here's a secret they don't tell you about joining a professional orchestra: over the years, your colleagues get younger and the jokes get funnier. When you start out as a bright-eyed 20-something, …
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I have an ambivalent relationship with the metronome. We've had enough difficulties over the years that we eventually had to set some ground rules. Still, the metronome (or its modern cousin, the …
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Sometimes you know without a doubt that your hands are out of sync on the violin. Other times, things seem just a bit... unclean. You'll notice it most in fast passages with all separate bows, and …
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If you joined the Violympics this past summer, this Mazas is already an old friend! If not, you'll love exploring what seems at first to be a run-of-the-mill etude. It's all about hand frame on the …
Now that the Violympic Games are over, I've been itching to get back to my YouTube roots. So here's a new video for the fall, even though the thermometer is supposed to hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit in …
