Let's Never Stop Falling in Love | From the Top covers Pink Martini

Gaelynn Lea: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR

Don't let anything in the world come between you and the music you want to play.



Gaelynn Lea: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR

A Valentine Serenade: "Romance" by Joseph Hellmesberger

Shake it Off – Classical style. A From the Top

UCI Irvine Anteater Talks, Homecoming 2016 - Gene Wie

Music in the Brain

Background - Hardanger Fiddle Association of America

The fiddle used to play the theme in Frozen.



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Ara Malikian interpretando "El Verano" Vivaldi

Mariachi Music for Cinco de Mayo

What does success really look like.

Julio Jose y Alfredo de la Fe interpretando Maria Cervantes

Julio Jose y Alfredo de la Fe interpretando Maria Cervantes

Mága Zoltán - Csak egy kislány van a világon (Pablo de Sarasate)

Music and your brain – the science of change

Music is like tune up software for your brain.  It gives you access to the full power of your brain.  But it takes time to install.   Keep pouring it in while you practice.

You need to persist for about two years before it starts showing the results.  So get started yesterday.  The earlier the better.

Do you know where the harmonics are on your violin -TIME FOR THREE COVERS KATY PERRY "FIREWORK"

Do you know where the harmonics are on your violin?

Why is the violin so hard to play? | plus.maths.org

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Bowed violin string in slow motion

Leah Flynn - The Prayer by David Foster

Beautiful Heart, Beautiful Tone. --Shinichi Suzuki.

Maybe, Music will save the world. -- Pablo Casals



Don't wait till evernote is perfect.  If you have it in your heart, it will be beautiful.  Never hesitate to do good with your music.  I was so touched by this performance.  When Leah plays, every note is a prayer.   Thank you for sharing.

After you listen to this heart felt performance read her Leah's story.

Casals Speech at Suzuki Concert

In cause you are wondering, Pablo Casals really did make this speech in Japan after a Suzuki Concert.  So much wisdom for the world. "Maybe, Music will save the world".  And all of our ears hang on to that thought.  Such a generous man Pablo Casals was.

Just in: Suzuki empire strikes back at fraud allegations – Slipped Disc

Thanks to Suzuki Sensei, the world is filled with talented fiddle players and young people who aspire to play the violin.  Playing the violin is accessible to a growing number of people.  It is a god send to those who would publish their own method books as they can ride on his wake with very little marketing. 


MOC should be cheering all the way to the bank as he has profited more than any other American musician from this convenience, yet it is not enough for him.  Sadly, he is a great success, yet he does not seem to recognize it himself.  Tell the angry man in your dreams to stop yelling at you MOC.  You deserve to be a happy person.


What made Suzuki Sensei a genius is that he saw what everyone else overlooked about creating musicians and set about discovering a solution. He did more than anyone else in the 20th century to democratize musicianship.less



If you do something that is truly successful you do not need to disparage anyone else to make sure the world will notice.  If you do something really great for the world they will notice.



Lastly some people don't realize that the internet is only a starting place for information.  Suzuki Sensei became a success long before the internet was available.  He never needed to publish this much information about himself to do his lifes work.  If you are really interested in learning more, knowing some Japanese helps considerably.   The internet can not hold everything that he has accomplished.  You have to live a full century to do that much.



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A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney

Best "Boil 'em Cabbage Down" ever! - Mark O'Connor/Wynton Marsalis

Yo-Yo Ma: Storytelling in Strings

Did you get the story?

Sound Drops / Krople dźwięku - violin / skrzypce

How are your 3 finger ringing tones?  Are they supported by your elbow under the violin on each string?

Inside the Quartet - NYTimes.com

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Communication in ensembles is important.  How do you communicate with fellow musicians?

Follow the link to the Quartet and listen and watch how the members of the Kronos Quartet cue each other in performance.

"Founded 40 years ago, the Kronos Quartet has broken the boundaries of what string quartets do, commissioning hundreds of new works that have brought jazz, tango, experimental and world music into the genre. The string quartet, based in San Francisco, has released 57 albums, sold more than 2.5 million of those recordings and has become a mentor to several generations of quartets that have followed in its innovative wake."

"One day earlier this year at a studio in downtown Manhattan, the members — David Harrington and John Sherba, violinists; Hank Dutt, violist; and Sunny Yang, cellist — were game for an experiment: to create a video that would serve as a new way to explain the special mystery of how a quartet communicates. ​ They found themselves surrounded by a battery of laptops, video cameras and microphones as well as sensors that turned their movements into data that eventually rendered the players kind of as "dot clouds" who would appear and disappear according to their individual participation in the music. "

Suddenly, they began discovering things they were doing unconsciously to cue each other into the musical entrances.