When he was 12, Trent Dumas heard a man playing a violin in a Decatur parking lot and fell in love with the instrument. Even though the only musical talent he had at the time was to "pick ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — How do you get to Carnegie Hall? “Practice, practice, practice!” Though the quintessentially famous New York City one-liner is somewhat antiquated, the punchline nonetheless has ...

Before she first picked up the instrument at age nine, Natalie MacMaster had long admired her uncle for his style of Cape Breton fiddle music. “I guess I first started listening to him when I was in ...

Actually, many beginners experience the same struggles. In this article, I will introduce common beginner struggles I often see in lessons, along with their solutions. Tension in the upper arm from ...

You couldn't have slid a piece of paper between Cork and Kilkenny in their 2021 All-Ireland semi-final, well until extra-time at least. In front of just 24,000 people at Croke Park, under Covid ...

GREENBRIER -- One of Tim Trawick's earliest memories is of lying in bed and hearing his father, Kay Trawick, playing guitar in another part of the house. "He'd be practicing some Chet Atkins-style ...

An accomplished violin player goes undercover as a beginner and takes online lessons from professional instructors. The video documents the teachers' approaches and their reactions to a disguised ...

As an academic subject, music is like no other. It consists not only of theory, notes, scales, and harmonies, but also the capacity to deeply move its listeners and practitioners. This mysterious ...

Whether you find yourself singing along to “Espresso” on repeat all day, struggling to self-learn the ukulele, or trying to convince your cat that you’re the next big thing, there are tons of music ...

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always ...