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January 17, 2019

The Pesky Violin Hickey Tip #2 – Quick Tip

The Pesky Violin Hickey Tip #2 - Quick Practice Tip

Watch Tip #1 of The Violin Hickey here. Hi I’m Vi Wickam and this is your Quick Tip of the Week, from myTalentForge.com. Last week we talked about the dreaded violin hickey. And this week I’m going to give you another tip that is a little less commonly known about how to avoid and deal […]

Filed Under: Quick Tips Tagged With: cleaning your instrument, fiddle, free music lesson, myTalentForge, quick practice tip, quick tip, vi wickam, viola, violin, violin hickey

January 15, 2019

How to Tune Your Violin

How-To-Tune-Your-Violin

Hi I’m Vi Wickam with myTalentForge.com. Here’s a lesson for you on how to tune your violin or your fiddle- depending on what you call it! Same instrument! Here’s my violin and you can hear that it’s in tune. Learning to tune your instrument is one of those beginning things that is very important. It’s […]

Filed Under: Free Fiddle Lessons, Videos Tagged With: comfort with your instrument, exercise, fiddle, free fiddle lesson, how to tune your violin, tuning your instrument, vi wickam, viola, violin

December 20, 2018

The Pesky… Violin Hickey! – Quick Tip

Violin Hickey - Quick Practice 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 […]

Filed Under: Quick Tips Tagged With: all levels, cleaning your violin, fiddle, quick practice tip, quick tip, vi wickam, viola, violin care, violin hickey

December 15, 2017

It’s Dancing Music! – Quick Practice Tip

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 […]

Filed Under: Quick Tips Tagged With: bowing choices, down beat, down bow, fiddle, free music lesson, it's dancing music, myTalentForge, quick practice tip, quick tip, vi wickam, viola, violin

January 6, 2017

Customize Your Shoulder Rest

customize your should rest

Hi there, I’m Dr. David Wallace of myTalentForge.com and this is the Quick Tip of the week! The Quick Tip of the week is to customize your shoulder rest. So that you adjust the instrument to your body, not your body to the instrument. And you can do that using pink make-up sponges! My viola […]

Filed Under: Fiddling, Quick Tips, Videos Tagged With: customize your shoulder rest, ergonomics, fiddle, shoulder rest, viola, violin

July 22, 2013

Dr. David Wallace Joins [my] Talent Forge!

Please welcome our newest my Talent Forge Teacher, The amazing Dr. David Wallace! Doc Wallace has some Hard-Core Classical Cred. Seriously, if I told you how awesome his credentials are, you wouldn’t believe me. We have posted 24 lesson videos from Doc Wallace, including lots of great technique tips and tricks. His new series’ include, […]

Filed Under: Fiddling Tagged With: doc wallace, julliard, talent forge, viola, viola lessons, violin

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