Practice Tip Tuesday

  • Interview with Cellist Jaime An

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    By Oleksander Mycyk This week's blog features an interview with cellist Jaime An, who recently won an audition for the position of assistant princi...

  • Setting the Parameters

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” -Arthur C Clarke Several years ago...

  • Bow Speed Techniques

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    By Cheri Collins “The most open, freely speaking, resonant sound tone production is based on speed of the bow” [1] Practicing the son filé bowin...

  • The Danger of Practicing Too Much, And More…

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    A historical interview with the legendary Jascha Heifetz: “The Danger of Practicing Too Much, And More…” Below is a fantastic interview from the e...

  • Interview with Michael Tree

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    Hans Jørgen Jensen interviewed the violist Michael Tree at the Young Artist Program in Ottawa, Canada on June 17, 2011. The world lost a great man...

  • Complete Practice Planning

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” — Gloria Stei...

  • Rhythm Training

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.." — Maya Angelou   Over many years of teaching, I have noticed how much rhyth...

  • Going Outside Your Comfort Zone

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    By Hans Jensen and Oleksander Mycyk  Illustration - Andrea Ucini “As a young cellist I wish that I had known about the term Deliberate Practice (...

  • Let Intuition be your Practice Guide

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    This blog post is a small sample from Chapter 8 of PracticeMind: The Complete Practice Model by Hans Jensen and Oleksander Mycyk I have a strong ...

  • Shifting Introduction and Q and A

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    By Hans Jensen    This blog post features an excerpt from CelloMind by Hans Jensen and Minna Rose Chung followed by answers to last wee...

  • Bringing Novelty into your Practice

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    This blog post is a small sample from Chapter 11 of PracticeMind: The Complete Practice Model by Hans Jensen and Oleksander Mycyk The ability to s...

  • Metacognition in Practice

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    One of the most impactful elements of my teaching philosophy is showing students the concept of metacognition and training their ability to unde...