Technique is an incredibly subjective issue. Get 10 piano teachers in a room and you will have 10 different techniques. Dare to criticise someone else’s and you’re in for a long night. I’d like to start this article by describing three personal experiences, all to do with comments on technique. Many years ago when […]
Violin scales are mind-boggling (to pianists)
The Violin Stage 1 instrument pack has just been released for ScaleBlitzer, and I think I have grown a few brain cells in getting my head around scales for strings! Being a pianist and never having played a stringed instrument myself, I was pretty ignorant when it came to technical work for strings. So, in […]