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It’s Dancing Music! – Quick Practice Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at http://www.myTalentForge.com. Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and here’s another Quick Tip for you! This Quick Tip relates to fiddling and bowing. And it’s the most important rule of bowing in fiddling. Now what might this be, you ask? The rule is that fiddling […]

Plateaus & Breakthroughs – Quick Practice Tip

Hi I’m Vi Wickam, and this is another myTalentForge Quick Tip! Have you ever felt like you’re just not getting any better? You’re practicing, you’re putting in the time, and you’re just not getting any better? You got better for a while, and now you’re doing the same things over and over and over. And […]

Cross-Tune Your Fiddle – Quick Practice Tip

Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week! In your playing, there is nothing more liberating than changing your tuning to one of the alternate tunings. It really gives your fingers a fresh set of geometry to play with, a fresh set of fingerings for the same notes. And […]

Looking For Inspiration? – Quick Practice Tip

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at http://www.myTalentForge.com. Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is another Quick Tip from myTalentForge.com. What do you do when you lack inspiration? Well, one thing you can do, is you can sight read. Now, this is just one of your options- it’s not […]

Where Does The Magic Live? – Quick Practice Tip

Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and this is another myTalentForge.com Quick Tip of the Week! Where does the magic live?! We all want to become better musicians. Regardless of what instrument we’re playing, we want to become a master of that instrument. We really want to own the instrument and be able to pay tunes that […]

1-4-5… What?

Find more Quick Tips and lessons by Vi Wickam and other teachers at http://www.myTalentForge.com. Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and this is a myTalentForge Quick Tip of the Week! […] What is a 1-4-5? What is it with all these numbers in music anyway? I mean, this is supposed to be music. It’s supposed to be […]

Guitar Bar/Barre Chords Tip #3

Check out Steve’s Beginning Guitar Lessons at http://www.mytalentforge.com/ Hi this is Steve Eulberg with another Quick Tip with [my] Talent Forge. Sometimes when I’m playing barre chords, I find that there’s a string that just isn’t playing very straight. I’m not hearing it. So what I do to test the sound is I push my […]