by Asher Wolf | Jun 8, 2020 | Online Learning
Reasons to get hooked on YouTube YouTube is one of the sharpest double-edged swords that the internet has to offer. Despite the fact that it has melted my developing brain for countless hours, I would not be the musician or music lover that I am without it. The...
by Asher Wolf | May 18, 2020 | Online Learning
Teoria.com website is free and excellent. https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/ May the internet work for us, not against us, in these trying times. I strive in my personal teaching to be as engaging and addicting as online games, but now that we’re all stuck in our...
by Asher Wolf | Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
All art is theft, with varying degrees of directness. Creative ideas do not emerge from nothingness, nor are they divinely inspired; instead, musicians recycle. Musical fragments enter the vat of the subconscious and are morphed, deconstructed, combined, elaborated,...
by Asher Wolf | Jan 13, 2020 | Parent Corner
Recall your child’s first word… Now imagine it was their first sound. What if they had emerged silent and pondered speech until they were ready to present the fruits of their observations? “Go,” or perhaps “Mama.” In language, as in music, sense coalesces out of...
by Asher Wolf | Dec 9, 2019 | Parent Corner
Music students ought to love music. This is not a terribly controversial statement, but it is often seen as irrelevant. For some parents and teachers – and indeed in the Suzuki philosophy – the main idea behind music lessons is that the child develops...