Practice Tip Tuesday

  • 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...

  • Interview with Clive Greensmith

    by Oleksa Mycyk
    By Dr. Nick Curry A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Clive Greensmith's principal teachers wer...