Fiddlosophy

During your sessions, find a balance between practice and play. I suggest spending roughly three quarters of your time engaged in focused deliberate practice, and then the rest of your time engaged in play. I talk a lot about Deliberate Practice on FiddleHed.. Chunking Going slow Spaced repetition Ear-training Deliberate Practice lays the foundation for … Continued

In this lesson, you’ll learn to play with ease using the FiddleHed Music Meditation process. Opening Questions: Do you feel tension in your body while playing? (Left-hand death grip, hunched shoulders) Hard to focus due to wandering thoughts? Introduction: If yes, this lesson will help. You’ll learn to play with ease using the FiddleHed Music … Continued

Anyone Can Learn Music. Period. Realize that if you really want it, then you can do it. A lot of people tell themselves, “I don’t have talent. I’m too old. I don’t have the right gear. I don’t have the right look.” None of those thoughts are true. They’re just stories that wound up in … Continued

Introduction One of the biggest problems that I hear about from students is that they don’t like the way they sound. I hear a lot of comments like “Oh the dog left the room when I started to play. LOL.” So in this lesson, I’m gonna give you a few practices you can do to … Continued

It’s hard at first At first learning something new is slow and challenging. You’re building a network of neural connections. Like going to the gym, it can be painful and frustrating. I’ve been learning the Chop bowing. Every day I practice, and initially, it feels like I’m not improving at all. But then, something clicks—it … Continued

Let’s learn and practice Ashokan Farewell with call-and-response. This is a great way to develop your ear which will help you learn tunes more easily as well as play in jam sessions.  Learning steps First off, I have a full tutorial for the tune here. I’ll play a little Chunk, and then leave you … Continued

Overview When I was a kid practicing violin, I’d sit in my room and make weird sounds like this…My Mom would yell at me from the other room, “Is that what you’re supposed to be doing?” No! I was supposed to be practicing classical pieces like Sarabande. Anyway, in this video, I’m going to do … Continued