Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Over three days and eight and a half hours (we were actually snowed in!) of conversation, Wilhelm and I shared ideas about practicing, pedagogy, repertoire and psychology that were fundamental for our own progress. Subscribe to not miss the new videos in this series!

Conversations like this are made possible by joining my Patreon community. We have 2 monthly get togethers on Zoom where you can ask questions, play for feedback or just hang out.
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In our video series, Wilhelm and I cover topics such as:
• How to practice, what helped us progress fast as late starters
• The right hand, rebuilt from scratch
• Left-hand pressure, frame, and independence
• Bach, Paganini, and repertoire as a laboratory
• Setup, posture, and what fiddlers know that we forget
• Vibrato and expression
• Starting late and catching up
• Life as a working musician in 2026

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🎻 ARCO — The app I built for teachers and students

This whole interview is about knowledge going missing. Which is, more or less, why I built Arco. Arco records your lessons, transcribes them with music-specific accuracy, writes rich lesson notes, and then lets you actually talk to your entire lesson history. Ask what your teacher has said about your vibrato over the past year. Pull an audition practice plan out of six months of lessons. Cross-reference your teacher's approach against Galamian, Flesch, Neuhaus.

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