Violin, Viola, and Cello Lessons

Warm-up before you practice. Warming up gets both your mind and body ready to practice.

Stay positive. Positive practice will motivate you to keep going.

Listen to different recordings of the piece you are working on performed by professionals.

Play the difficult sections of your piece every day that you practice.

Don’t practice mistakes. Slow things down until you can play them accurately and then gradually speed them up again.

Mastering an instrument takes a mixture of talent and hard work. Both are necessary.

Slow things down during practice and then gradually increase the tempo until you can play everything correctly up to tempo.

Memorize really difficult passages in your pieces. Playing them by memory will make them easier to play because you can focus solely on your instrument during the difficult part.

End each practice session with something fun-playing a piece you love, making up your own song or just playing straight through the piece you were working on.

There is always something to improve on every piece of music, scale or etude.