I have recently created two series of video tutorials on violin playing. They are posted at www.YouTube.com. I hope that they are helpful to violinists from around the world. I've spent a lot of my life practicing, performing, teaching, and thinking about music and the violin. I have often wished that the present David (that's me) could have visited the Child David from time to time to dispense some advice - violinistic and otherwise!
I hereby offer the service of my advice - musical and violinistic - to those who feel they might benefit from it. I think a good jumping off point might be the videos which I have posted. They can be found (on YouTube) by entering PlayMyPiece into the search window. The two series are "Bowing Basics" and "Vibrato Basics". I intend to add more and would welcome topic proposals and will gladly entertain questions.
I am not a coy person, so I wish to state at the outset that I have invested a lot of time and effort in creating the website www.PlayMyPiece.com and that my videos and blogging are, in part, an effort to promote this business. I do love music and the violin deeply, and teaching gives me great pleasure and satisfaction. I believe that the tutorial videos and the blogging will become a natural extension of my private teaching and my teaching at the Eastman School of Music.
I hope that I am creating what I call a "child feeding the ducks" situation. Imagine a delighted child throwing bits of bread to hungry ducks. Who is feeding whom?
