The Virtuoso Master Course

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Weekly Workouts
VMC 3 Workouts 36 Topics
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WW 3.36 The Kreutzers We Leave Behind
WW 3.35 with Zach: This time, he’s brought double-stops
WW 3.34 Shifting in Glazunov: “You will never sound like someone else”
WW 3.33 w/ Matt: Harness Your Pinky’s Power
WW 3.32 Sight Reading, or “The Inner Game of Nathan”
WW 3.31 Scales according to Zach
WW 3.30 Mendelssohn Concerto
WW 3.29 Need For Speed
WW 3.28 More Scale Antics: “It’s going to be creative no matter what”
WW 3.27 Spice up your Scale Routine: Look Ma, No Shifts!
WW 3.26 Schumann Liederkreis: “Lousy one-note players”
WW 3.25 Octaves with Stacy: Building the Octave from the Ground Up
WW 3.24 Paganini Caprice 24: “Hey, it can’t make things any worse!”
WW 3.23 Bach’s b minor Party: Tuning Tuesday with NC
WW 3.22 Bach b minor Partita: Livestream interruptus
WW 3.21 Phrasing in Mozart: “Like a plant”
WW 3.20 Bach Double: “Experience is nothing but a collection of bad habits”
WW 3.19 Paganini No. 13 “The Devil’s Laughter” or, “You can read it in an afternoon”
WW 3.18 Dont 4 & 7
WW 3.17 Paganini 18: “Hand Hygiene”
WW 3.16 The Magical World of Dounis
WW 3.15 Practice Journaling
WW 3.14 Shift like a master
WW 3.13 More of the Inner Game
WW 3.12 Inner Game
WW 3.11 with Lynn
WW 3.10 Get to know your fingerboard (Mazas 5)
WW 3.09 Kissing cousins: martelé and staccato
WW 3.08 Dont 2 and the VMC Practice Room
WW 3.07 The Tabuteau method
WW 3.06 From zero to website!
WW 3.05 Kreutzer 9 and Zach Brock’s Etude inspired by it
WW 3.04 Behind the green screen
WW 3.03 Simon Fischer “Tone”
WW 3.02 Schradieck
WW 3.01 Welcome and Wieniawski
Resources
VMC 5
VMC 4
VMC Alumni Classes and Events
VMC 3
VMC 3 Masterclass Studios 77 Topics
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Studio 3.36.3 VMC 3 Studio Awards
Studio 3.36.2 The Last Playing Class of 3.0
Studio 3.35.3 “For a violinist, Joachim didn’t write this to be very violin-like”
Studio 3.35.1 What a Wonderful World
Studio 3.34.3 (some of) The Badass Women of VMC 3.0
Studio 3.34.1 “Continuation of viola”
Studio 3.33.3 “Expect a great sound”
Studio 3.33.1 “Always go with the club that hits it further”
Studio 3.32.3 Body Mapping with Jennifer Johnson
Studio 3.32.1 “If I were just better, what would happen?”
Studio 3.31.3 “No note without a beautiful sound”
Studio 3.31.2 BYO Fingertraps: “If I just knew how to practice this well, I’d be able to play it”
Studio 3.31.1 “The ones who sound great slowly tend to sound great on stage”
Studio 3.30.3 Kate is stinky
Studio 3.30.1 “It’s all about love, right?”
Studio 3.29.3 “Meeting tension with softness”
Studio 3.29.1: “Paganewbie”
Studio 3.28.3 “All we’re after here, ultimately, is to hear things as they are”
Studio 3.28.1 Being kind is classy
Studio 3.27.2 with Bob DeMaine: “Full-on Prego commercial”
Studio 3.27.1 Gil Shaham’s dad joke and the cadenza monologue
Studio 3.26.3 “He’s not wearing his goggles”
Studio 3.26.1 “All the solutions were inside me the whole time”
Studio 3.25.3 “Nicking violin repertoire”
Studio 3.25.1 “My hands are cold and my trills are fast”
Studio 3.24.3 “There’s no crying in violin”
Studio 3.24.1 “On it’s deepest level, it’s a choice”
Studio 3.23.3 “I’m used to hearing screaming and crying when I play”
Studio 3.23.1 “These are all rules meant to be bent or broken”
Studio 3.22.3 “Great Big Feelings” or, “this whole piece is slightly embarrassing for someone from Wisconsin like myself”
Studio 3.22.1 “Any plan is better than no plan”
Studio 3.21.3 “That sounds a bit too refined for me”
Studio 3.21.1 “Doing the farm animal thing”
Studio 3.20.3 with Simon James: “Repetition of good behavior”
Studio 3.20.1 “I’m only a viola player”
Studio 3.19.3 “Hey, I’m bouncing!”
Studio 3.19.1 “That’s the best way not to have to play the viola”
Studio 3.18.3 “…a little more scampering, perhaps”
Studio 3.18.1 “Let’s pimp this ride”*
Studio 3.17.3 “The Na-Kiko Show”
Studio 3.17.1 “Play while the playin’ is good”
Studio 3.16.3 “I had one great and brilliant thing to say”
Studio 3.16.1 “No knots for dots”
Studio 3.15.3 “Keeping up with the Rebeccas”
Studio 3.15.1 “This is the whole ballgame”
3.14.3 Pinky High Horse
3.14.1 “If there are going to be flaws, you want to hear them”
Studio 3.13.3 “See it, feel it, hear it”
Studio 3.13.1 The Inner Game in Action
Studio 3.12.3 Helen’s Historic Moment
Studio 3.12.1 “Old Man Cole”
Studio 3.11.3
Studio 3.11.1 “That’ll be the difference-maker”
Studio 3.10.3 Detaché-palooza
Studio 3.10.1 “Move the rifle around the head, not the head around the rifle!”
Studio 3.9.3 “You think you’re better than Bach?”
Studio 3.9.1 Corny but thankful
Studio 3.8.3 “I would hate to play only as well as I deserve”
Studio 3.8.1 Nathan’s staccato dreams and the half-baked casserole
Studio 3.7.3
Studio 3.7.1 Tabuteau method in action
Studio 3.6.3 Battle of the Bachs
Studio 3.6.1 Tales of Bartok and Peloton
Studio 3.5.3
Studio 3.5.1
Studio 3.4.3 “What are the things that are still great?”
Studio 3.4.2 “The reverse banana”
Studio 3.4.1 “Take us to the notes that are most important”
Studio 3.3.3 Bach three ways
Studio 3.3.2 “Everybody should get a miniature Nathan”
Studio 3.3.1 “Just alone with my crazy”
Studio 3.2.3 “I enjoy playing, I just don’t enjoy my playing”
Studio 3.2.2
Studio 3.2.1
Studio 3.1.3 “You guys are badasses; let’s go!”
Studio 3.1.2
Studio 3.1.1
VMC 3 Business Studios 30 Topics
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VMC 3 Water Cooler Chats 54 Topics
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WCC Week 36 w/ Dan (12-Tone Listening Party)
WCC Week 35 w/ Sandi (Pedagogy Exchange)
WCC Week 34 w/ Kate (Violympics Planning)
WCC Week 34 w/ Matt (Show ‘n Tell (Excerpts))
WCC Week 33 w/ Kerstin (Preparing Students for College)
WCC Week 32 Business Brainstorm (Teaching Focus)
WCC Week 32 w/ Matt (Excerpts and Auditions)
WCC Week 31 w/ Amanda (Pre-concert run-through)
WCC Week 31 w/ Matt (Etudes and Auditions)
WCC Week 30 (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 28 (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 27 w/ Matt (DaVinci Resolve – the Deep Dive)
WCC Week 27 (Sharing Is Caring)
WCC Week 26 (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 25 w/ Matt (DaVinci Resolve – Zero to Baseline)
WCC Week 24 w/ Rebecca (Sharing is Caring)
WCC Week 24 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 24 w/ Matt: March “Matt”ness (Audacity 101)
WCC Week 23 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 23 w/ Matt: March “Matt”ness (ViolinMind)
WCC Week 23 w/ Kate (Let’s Chat)
WCC Week 23 w/ Dan (Dan’s Listening Club)
WCC Week 22 w/ Rebecca and Dan (Sharing is Caring)
WCC Week 20 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 19 w/ Matt (An Introduction to Matt’s “Tech”nical Mindset)
WCC Week 19 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WWC Week 19 w/ Kate (Organization is Love)
WCC Week 18 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 18 w/ Matt (Matt’s competition rep run-through)
WCC Week 18 w/ Kate (Organization is Love)
WCC Week 17 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 16 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorming)
WCC Week 16 w/ Matt (Social Hour: More Tech Setup Talk)
WCC Week 15 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 15 w/ Matt (Conductor Experiences – The Best and the Worst)
Website Study Hall (Post-WW 3.15)
Website Study Hall (Pre-WW 3.15)
WCC Week 14 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 14 w/ Matt (Ins & Outs of Multistreaming)
WCC Week 13 w/ Jennifer (Business Brainstorm)
WCC Week 13 w/ Matt (Making a Studio on a Budget)
WCC Week 12 w/ Jennifer (Find Your Why Pt. 3)
WCC Week 12 w/ Matt (Lighting & Embracing Critical PHP Issues)
WCC Week 12 w/ Kate (3 Month Check-in)
WCC Week 11 w/ Jennifer (Find Your Why Pt. 2)
WCC Week 11 w/ Matt (Intonation in Bach & Websites)
WCC Week 10 w/ Jennifer (Find Your Why)
WCC Week 10 w/ Matt (Activating Premium WordPress Themes For Free)
WCC Week 9 w/ Matt (6FME Debrief)
WCC Week 9 w/ Kate (Teaching _________ in 3 Minutes)
WCC Week 7 w/ Matt (“About Me” and Finding Your Why)
WCC Week 6 w/ Lynn (Website Support Group)
WCC Week 6 w/ Kate (A Supporting Introduction)
BoG Ashley Dan Jennifer Kate
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