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October 26, 2017

It’s Complicated – Your Relationship with Sheet Music

Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week. This tip has to do with your relationship with your sheet music. Now, I don’t know if you’re married to your sheet music, or you’re in a relationship, or maybe it’s complicated… I think that no matter how you describe your […]

October 20, 2017

What You Take, You Must Return

Hi I’m Vi Wickam, and here’s another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip! Rubato! What in Sam Hill is rubato, you may ask?! Well, lots of people are wondering what is rubato? Now, there’s a rule of rubato, as well. But we’ll get to that next. Rubato means playing with expression. It means playing with your heart. Especially […]

October 6, 2017

Musical Head Games

Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week! I call this “Visualizing”. Now, you may think “visualizing” is kind of a weird term to use for playing music. There’s been those studies that show if you visualize shooting baskets that you’ll make more baskets when you try again. When […]

August 4, 2017

How to Play Harmonies

Hi I’m Vi Wickam and here’s another myTalentForge Quick Tip of the Week! How to play harmonies… People ask me all the time, “How do I play harmonies? How can I figure out which note should be played when I play a harmony?” Well, we’re going to start off this week with the tenor harmony. […]

July 28, 2017

4th Finger Drones for Fun and Intonation

Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another Quick Tip of the Week! This one is specifically for violinists, violists, cellist, and other strings players. When you’re working on your intonation, the next step up from playing along with an open string drone is to play along with a 4th finger drone. So, for instance, […]

July 21, 2017

Destroy Fear of Failure

Hi I’m Vi Wickam, with another MyTalentForge Quick Tip of the Week! Do not fear failure. Really. I mean, we all screw up. You know we all screw up. What are you afraid of? I screw up all the time. That’s just a part of life. Failure is an opportunity to try again, and to […]

June 30, 2017

What Are You Focused On?

For more lessons on Overcoming Performance anxiety and being your best on stage, check out Doc Wallace’s Peak Performance Series. Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week! Focus on having fun on stage. Now, you may think, “But it’s nerve-racking when I’m on stage!” Or whatever story you’ve […]

June 23, 2017

Stop Stage Fright NOW!

For more lessons on Overcoming Performance anxiety and being your best on stage, check out Doc Wallace’s Peak Performance Series. Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is myTalentForge.com‘s Quick Tip of the Week. Excitement and nerves are the same thing. Now, I have fiddle students all the time that say, “Well I get so nervous […]

June 9, 2017

Don’t Think About it!

Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and here’s another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip! You don’t have any time to think when you’re playing your instrument. Now, that may seem counterintuitive to you… but when you’re playing, it should be a subconscious process most of the time. When you think you get out of time, when you think in […]

June 2, 2017

Sound Big with Bathroom Acoustics

Hi, I’m Vi Wickam! And this is a my Talent Forge Quick Practice tip of the Week! I call it- bathroom acoustics. Now, that sounds kind of funny, but if you’ve ever played your instrument in the bathroom… Now, if you’re a piano player, I totally understand why you haven’t. But if you play something […]