Office Hours with Jason / April 2024

Questions and Topics

Staying focused, consistent practice, getting started

Learn more here: How To Practice Consistently, The Practice Challenge of Fiddling

Using recording as a music journal

Simply record things, add a title/date, then listen back next time you practice.

Learn more here: How To Improve Your Violin Playing Through Recording

How to practice with the Call-and-response Tracks

These ear-training tracks are fun but sometimes very challenging. I strongly suggest using the hints I provide for each exercise. Also, do each one multiple times.

Practice steps

Play and then sing the hint notes with a drone before beginning.
Listen to what I play.
Play it back.
Repeat the exercise until you can easily play back what you hear.

Check out the Call-and-response exercises in each module or in Call-and-response Central.

Sheet music apps

Forscore

A few students recommended this. You can record audio in the app.

Musescore

I use the paid version of this for its library of sheet music. It allows you to hear the sheet music as well as edit. FiddleHed Jocelyn uses this for notation.

How to change the speed of a video or audio?

How to download audio from the site?

We talked about how this works on Macs vs. PCs.

Thanks to Caren for making a demo of how to do this on a PC:

Learn more here: How do I download mp3 files?

Mike said, “This is good. Questions have been raised that I never thought of..lots of great practice material presented today.”