Whether or not we plan to make a career of music, this series will be relevant for everyone! If we keep at it, we all reach a point where we're ready to take our music beyond the practice room, but as one of Laurel's students recently asked: "What ...

At first glance, measures with either a 6/8 or 3/4 time signature could be filled with six eighth notes (see figure below), so how are the two different in terms of music theory, and do we need to approach them any differently in our playing?

Even though protest music has a long tradition, from Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" to Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind," these days it seems like a lot of the artists who speak of or perform anything that in any way makes a political ...

Last summer I was honored to chat with Julia Reddy of the Violin Class podcast about life, music, managing our inner critics, improving our self-esteem, and the experience of starting over with technique and getting to the other side. The episode has ...

In this fourth installment of the Violin Geek Podcast's Intonation Mastery series we explore common issues within our technique that may contribute to intonation issues, as well as some considerations within our approach to tonality, and tempered versus ...