With this COVID-19 pandemic affecting our world, disrupting our routines, and changing how we’ve done things, students have had to address the challenge of learning violin through online lessons for the time being. In this short blog, we’ll address just a couple of the biggest challenges we have faced with teaching online violin lessons 1. Keeping the Attention of Younger Violin Students We’ve found that it is much easier to keep the attention of our younger students when we are in person with them at our school location. If you thought keeping their attention focused in person was hard before […]
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Singing in the Head Voice
Written by Brianne Cardona Many voice students find it most difficult to sing in the head voice which is also called the upper and middle registers. We speak all day long in our chest voice. Therefore, the chest voice tends to be much more developed in most singers than the head voice. How to Find the Head Voice Some students might not even know what the head voice feels like or is “supposed” to feel like. In order to develop an awareness for what the head voice feels or sounds like, I have my students start out by mimicking an […]
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How to Survive a Music Recital
How to Survive a Music Recital In the back of their heads, most students want to know how to survive a music recital. Most specifically, the nerves. How do you survive being nervous and how do you survive the embarrassment of messing up your performance?! The good news to hold onto is this: everyone gets nervous at a music recital! Even professional performers still get the butterflies! But how do we deal with these butterflies? Here are a few essential points every music performer should know and do in order to best survive a music recital. 1. Practice This Mindset […]
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How to Prepare For Your Guitar Lesson
There are things that every student, young and old, can do to prepare for your guitar lesson in order to gain the most you can from the money you spend to be trained. In this article we give you a sort of checklist of things you can do to be the most prepared for your guitar lessons apart from your daily practice routines. Do these things before every guitar lesson and you will quickly become one of your guitar teacher’s favorite students! Eat a Snack Before Your Guitar Lesson In order to gain the most out of your guitar lesson […]
Read MoreWhich Size Guitar for Kids?
When it comes to children learning to play guitar there is a size guitar that would be best for a child to use when taking guitar lessons. A full-sized guitar may be too big for many children to start with. It is important that an appropriate size instrument be used during a child’s guitar lessons so that they learn to play guitar correctly. Playing a guitar that is the incorrect size for a student will lead the student to compromise good technic. In this article we will show you the different guitar size options that can be used for a […]
Read MoreAt What Age Can I Start My Child With Music Lessons?
At what age can I start my child with music lessons? Or the sister question is: How young do you take beginning music students? Could very well be the most frequently asked question we get from parents inquiring about music lessons at our school. Of course, the answer to this depends on each parents’ goals or expectations. At two years old your child will probably not sit through a formal lesson on a particular musical instrument. If that is what the expectation is from a parent then there is definitely an age to start their child according to that child’s particular needs […]
Read MoreExploring Guitar Lessons
When you first start on the idea of exploring guitar lessons, you hardly know what to expect. Perhaps even less, do you know how to answer when your instructor asks you “what your goals are”. It’s hard to express what “ideas” you have about playing guitar if you don’t have the proper guitar vocabulary to express it. We put together this article to help you understand some of the basic concepts you can pursue with your guitar lessons. We hope that it will help you communicate with your guitar instructor on what “your goals are” or what you would like […]
Read More3 Tips for Singing in Front of People
The big question everyone asks us is how not to be nervous when singing in front of people? The most experienced of us gets nervous when we sing in front of people! Even Adele said in an interview with Rolling Stone, “I’m afraid of audiences”. Many singers find their rituals and exercises that they do before every performance to get them relaxed before getting up in front of people to sing. That can look different for everyone from stretches to warm soothing drinks. We all find our own methods for calming down and staying calm. But here we share three […]
Read MoreSacramento Violin Teacher | Darya Voronina
We want to introduce to you one of our Sacramento violin teachers at Martucci Music, Darya Voronina! Darya’s Early Musical Background Darya Voronina was born and raised in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. At the age of 5 she began attending the local music school to study the violin with her first violin teacher. She studied there for four years until her family moved to the United States. Growing up in the United States, Darya continued taking private lessons with various violin teachers. She also attended other professional violin courses during the summers to further accelerate her studies. Darya’s Adult Musical Background In […]
Read More4 Methods for Practicing the Violin
Today, I’d like to share with you 4 specific methods of practicing the violin. These practice methods can help anyone learn their repertoire with consistent discipline and to learn it a lot quicker and more efficiently. Sometimes practicing the violin consistently every day can be difficult to maintain. Especially if there is no structure for how to practice. We can’t depend on our inspiration for practicing our violin music simply because we won’t feel inspired every day, all the time. Therefore, we need some structure to keep us on the straight and narrow of daily practice. The discipline of using […]
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