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The Low Hanging Fruit – Quick Tip

This Quick Tip is by teacher Steve Eulberg. This tip comes from his Habits for Your Healthy Music Habitat series on his website dulcimercrossing.com. To check out Steve’s music, click this link: https://www.patreon.com/steveeulberg. Hi, Steve Eulberg here with another Habit for Your Healthy Music Habitat. Low hanging fruit!… When I’m working on a new tune, […]

Encourage – Quick Tip

This Quick Tip is by teacher Steve Eulberg. This tip comes from his Habits for Your Healthy Music Habitat series on his website dulcimercrossing.com. To check out Steve’s music, click this link: https://www.patreon.com/steveeulberg. Hi, this is Steve Eulberg, here with another Habit for your Healthy Music Habitat. I’m thinking about courage… Courage is that thing […]

Transcribe It – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. [The song I play at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called Durang’s Hornpipe. You can listen to it here.] Hi everybody, Vi Wickam here with another Quick Tip of the Week. This Quick Tip is a great way to […]

Rotate Your Repertoire – Quick Tip

[The tune I play at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called Road to Lisdoonvarna. Listen to it here.] Hi everybody, Vi Wickam here with another Quick Tip of the Week. This week I want to give a shoutout to YayLife.com, who gave me this awesome Yay Fiddle t-shirt. I am totally stoked about […]

Magnesium – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. [The song played at the beginning of the Quick Tip is called Pass the Grog. Find the myTalentForge fiddle lesson for it here!] Hi I’m Vi Wickam, here with another Quick Tip for your week! Now this tip applies to all […]

The Pesky… Violin Hickey! – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. Hi, I’m Vi Wickam- here with another Quick Tip of the Week. This one is specific to violinists and violists… and it’s how you deal with, or how you avoid the dreaded… violin hickey! This is the first tip- there will […]

Playing While Balancing? – Quick Tip

[The song played at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called Fisher’s Hornpipe. You can find the lesson to it here.] Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. Hi, Vi Wickam here for myTalentForge.com. And this is your Quick Tip of the Week. Something you can try… […]

Make It a Game – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. [The song played at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called Wild John. You can listen to it here.] Hello everybody, Vi Wickam here with another Quick Tip for your week. That tune is called Wild John. I think it’s […]

But First… Yoga! – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. [The song I play at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called “Sally Johnson”. Check it out here!] Hi everybody! Vi Wickam here for myTalentForge.com. Here’s your Quick Tip of the Week- give yoga a try! If you don’t like […]

Your One Body – Quick Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at https://www.myTalentForge.com. [The song I play at the beginning of this Quick Tip is called “Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle?” Listen to it here!] Hi! Vi Wickam here for myTalentForge.com. Just a little reminder for this week’s Quick Tip… You […]