Hyperslow: A technique to master fast, difficult passages byMike Lawson September 10, 2009 0 All musicians know the importance of paying ones dues to master the scales, technical licks, and complex passages that we ...
You can tune a piano but… byMike Lawson August 5, 2009 0 ...you can't tuna fish. So goes that stale, old joke that is nevertheless ever new in my world. I work ...
Rehearsing Music: Procedures, Verbal Cues, and Pictorial Imagery byMike Lawson January 19, 2009 0 The procedures and verbal communication skills used by band and orchestra directors to rehearse music must be appropriate for the ...
Teaching Four-Mallet Marimba Technique: A Sequential Approach to Repertoire byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 Although evidence exists of four-mallet playing in Asia as early as the 16th Century, on Western mallet instruments it is ...
“Look Ma, No Notes!” – Distinguishing Memorization from Music Illiteracy byMike Lawson September 19, 2007 0 K.M. Griesinger earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music education from the University of Akron, where she is adjunct ...
Fiddling with the Orchestra Curriculum byMike Lawson October 22, 2006 0 by Julie Lyonn Lieberman During the world's second Alternative String Festival March 11 -13, world class alternative string players presented ...
UpClose: Maria Schneider byMike Lawson October 21, 2006 0 By Christian Wissmuller Maria Schneider's dense and complex arrangements have distinguished her as one of the premier creative forces in ...
UpFront: Jazz / EarTraining / Jazz Education byMike Lawson October 19, 2006 0 How do we, as teachers, prepare kids these days to be better musicians, to appreciate music more, to understand and ...
UPFRONT: CLARINET PEDAGOGY byMike Lawson February 1, 2003 0 While there are no quick fixes in music education, student clarinetists can show rapid improvement in their tone quality and ...
STRINGS SECTION: SECRETS OF GOOD CELLO TECHNIQUE byMike Lawson September 1, 2002 0 A common misconception about teaching children to play the cello is that it requires more striving and effort than its ...
Practicing Stage Fright Management byMike Lawson July 1, 2002 0 Waiting backstage, the familiar symptoms return. The palms moisten, the stomach becomes queasy, the heart beats harder and faster, breathing ...