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Stephen Benham
Increasing Access to Strings
(Pamphlet)
Sarah Black
Put the Fun Back in Fundamentals
From Teaching Tips K-12
Theodore Buchholz
The Finger Matrix Exercise
From Studio Teaching Tips
JoAnna Cochnet
The Dilemma of Trying to be Creative
And solutions for the dilemma; from Studio Teaching Tips
Jacob M. Dakon & Selim Giray
Collé Action
An alternate perspective on right-hand finger and wrist mobility
Susan Davis
The Art of Recruiting
From Teaching Tips K-12
Eric Fried
Using Body Language to Express the Music
Conducting student ensembles
Selim Giray
To Tilt or Not To Tilt
A historic and pedagogical perspective
Michael Hopkins
6 Stages of Tuning Stringed Instruments
For the orchestra
Susanna Klein
Practicing in Tune
Four puzzlers for four concepts
Rictor Noren
Inheriting, Losing, and Rehabilitating Students
Daniel Sabra
Improvisation
A pedagogical method for teaching greater expressivity and musicality in string playing
Edmund Sprunger
Developing the Bow Hand
From Violin Forum
Benjamin Whitcomb
Improving Intonation