Your turn! Call and response is a great way to get students connecting their instruments to what they hear. It’s also a safe way to lead...

A key to shifting is knowing exactly where you're going and taking deliberate action--easier said than done. These are the 3 steps I...

An unscripted emergency tutorial has turned into one of our most viewed videos. Local orchestra teachers requested a vibrato video to get...

A step by step process on how to develop string playing students' creativity through looping.

It's been a crazy Summer y'all. Our travels took us to Philly, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Miami, Ohio, and now we're settling back in Texas....

It's been a few months since the release of TWINKLE ARCADE in D, which gives us plenty of time to review how it's going...and you know...

We wrapped up our first year as faculty at the Ohio Creative Strings Workshop with one video :) If you're reading this, hopefully you get...

What's up blog buddies. Rachel and I are in Summer mode! We've been all over the place. First stop: Minneapolis for the Suzuki...

Yesterday one of my online students had his best lesson of the year. He moved recently, and when he said he wanted to keep taking lessons...

About a month ago, I was working with a student who was struggling with focusing on smaller sections of his music with practice. His mom...

Friends who like classical music, consider this...instead of dwelling on audiences that "just don't get it" for whatever reason, or...

Buying an instrument can be tough. It's time to say what a lot of teachers don't want to say, because it's no fun letting someone know...

Christine Wilson Goodner’s Beyond the Music Lesson is a well-thought out resource written for Suzuki parents and teachers alike. My...

Just a cello hanging out by the soybean fields I just got back from teaching at the Acadiana Suzuki String Instutute in Lafayette...

Last Saturday, we had our first recital since moving to Frisco. We have had recitals regularly in our studio at Ann Arbor over the years,...

Today’s post is dedicated to all the moms who give their children the gift of music. From the work-in-progress noble heart of a student...

Last week, Rachel and I were invited to the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Suzuki in the Schools Spring Festival! We're so grateful for the...

Often studio parents will fill us in on their practice week like this: “We did x, y, z, and then, because we felt like it, we made a...

A behind the scenes look at a recent studio development session, complete with a smiley face Working on our website is something I really...

Chili takes a moment to self reflect. Photo cred: Keli Cardoso de Melo Ever feel like you're only getting a fraction of the work done at...