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    Violin is Easy
    Violin is Easy
    Violin is Easy
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    Violin is Easy

    By Peter Bucknell

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    Violin is Easy is a valuable companion to any violinist's progression toward being a better student.
    The information in this book is drawn from the author's experience as a Professor, as a Concert Artist and also from his many years as an advanced student.
     Dr Bucknell studied with teachers who were considered to be the best in the world.
    There is an unlimited amount of information out there about learning the violin. This book will help everyone learn and improve faster, without having to wade through a lot of unnecessary information.Inside you will find the secrets to posture, holding the instrument, vibrato, bow hold, using shoulder rests, intonation and tone production.

    This book is a wonderfully succinct rundown of how to be a better student, teacher and player.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIrving Waters
    Release dateMay 29, 2020
    ISBN9781393927808
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    Violin is Easy - Peter Bucknell

    Forward

    We are all students, and we are all teachers.

    This book will serve as a companion to any violinist’s progression toward being a better student and a better teacher. I’ve drawn from my own suffering as a young violin student, as a violin teacher, and as a viola Professor with a class of 18 students (a favorite time in my life), and as a player. I studied with Professors who were considered by many to be the best in the world at that time, and I took notes.

    There is an unlimited amount of information out there about teaching and learning the violin. This book is written to help everyone do better without having to wade through a lot of unnecessary words.

    Dedication

    This book is dedicated to all of my teachers:

    Lois Shepherd

    Shinichi Suzuki

    Alison Bottomly

    Nelli Shkolnikova

    Donald Scotts

    Stephen McIntyre

    Marco van Pagee

    Nathan Gutman

    Donald McInnes

    James Tyler

    Rainer Moog

    Yuri Bashmet

    Mitchell Stern

    Chapter 1

    Easy?

    Most students waste their time practicing the wrong way.

    They make easy things hard.

    Section 1

    Why it’s easy

    Playing the violin is not magic. It can be just physics. If you follow some simple rules, the result will be good.

    It’s comforting to know that playing the violin can be ‘all technique’ and there are many professionals out there who have succeeded without having much musical talent. They got there by practicing the right way and doing it frequently for enough time to master the instrument.

    If the student ‘practices smart’ their journey will be faster and more fun. This book will give the teacher and the student a road map to get there without really trying.

    Analogy:

    Max is learning to walk through a doorway.  Max has never done it before.

    1st attempt: Max bumps into the right side of the doorframe

    2nd attempt: Max bumps into the left side of the doorframe

    3rd attempt: Max walks through the doorway

    And then: Max repeats the 3rd attempt.

    In this way, Max is learning from errors and adjusting, and then after a successful attempt, it is repeated so that Max does it right more times than wrong.

    Section 2

    The hard Way

    It’s interesting to know what the hard way is, mainly to know what to avoid, but also to understand why improvement has been a frustrating concept until this point in your life.

    Doing anything the hard way usually involves:

    - repeating mistakes

    getting it right once and then moving on

    not thinking

    criticism in place of construction

    Example:

    Sam plays a scale with 2 notes out of tune.

    Sam tries again without thinking about why they were out of tune.

    Sam repeats the mistakes a couple more times.

    Sam thinks : This is bad, I am bad

    Sam tries again without thinking,

    Sam is getting good at making the mistakes.

    Sam eventually plays the scale correctly once, and feels relieved.

    Sam moves on to something else.

    Sam has played the scale wrongly many more times than correctly.

    Sam will almost definitely play it wrongly next time.

    Doing anything the

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