Vi Wickam

Champion Fiddler, Inspired Performer

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]