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I didn’t try. I did it!

December 16, 2019 by Love Nurtured Music

By Rigo Murillo

There is nothing impossible for the ones who are willing to pay the price of excellence.
A year ago, I thought what I did yesterday would be impossible for me to do. But after a lot of training and discipline, I was able to accomplish my goal. I have learned that there is nothing impossible for the ones who are willing to pay the price of excellence.

A year ago, I thought what I did yesterday would be impossible for me to do. But after a lot of training and discipline, I was able to accomplish my goal. I have learned that there is nothing impossible for the ones who are willing to pay the price of excellence.

Perfect practice makes perfect!

After many days of training, I made my best efforts and finish running a half marathon.

I did not try. I did it!

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What Are You Waiting For?

February 16, 2015 by Love Nurtured Music

What are you waiting for?
Pick up your Fiddle and Play! NOW!
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Go to the Practice Resource Center for music practicing companion videos, audio files, articles, charts, and everything you need to be a violin genius (oh, well, except YOUR practice time).

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Way to go, Emily, Practice Champion!

July 16, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations to practice champion Emily for completing her 100-day practice challenge this week. Way to go, Emily! Keep up the good work.
Emily, violin practice champion. Dallas Suzuki Violin Lessons.

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Good music making makes experts listen… Go Practice!

July 8, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

Legendary violinist Ivri Gitlis (almost 91 years old) listens to Marié Rossano playing Mendelssohn’s violin concerto Op. 64, 3rd movement, and apparently likes what he hears.

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Most difficult piece for violin…

June 8, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

nathan-milsteinIn an interview with Pinchas Zukerman in 1992, the great 20th century violinist, Nathan Milstein confessed that this Liszt’s “Mephisto Waltz” arrangement was the absolutely most difficult piece he had ever played.

Here is a video of Milstein’s arrangement of this piece, Alexander Skwortsow playing it (circa 1985):

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Congratulations to Alejandro for his Book 3 Graduation!

March 27, 2014 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations to Alejandro for his Violin Book 3 Graduation. Alejandro is a very dedicated violin student and we’re so proud of him. Congratulations to his mom, as well for helping him with daily home practice. Here he is smiling with his book certificate. Way to go, Alejandro!

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Way to go, practice champions!

December 5, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

Congratulations to Anna Victoria Lavelle and Alondra Flores for completing their 100 days of practice in a row chart this week!!

They have made tremendous improvements due to their increased practice discipline.

They were awarded their well-deserved Love Nurtured Music “Practice Champion T-shirts.”

If you want your free T-shirt, complete the 100-Day Challenge Chart here.

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Extensive Musical Training Affects Brain Structure And Function

November 13, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

BrainMusical training shapes brain anatomy and affects function, says a new study presented this week in San Diego, California at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. The new findings show that training before age 7 has bigger impact on brain anatomy; improvisation can rewire brain.

The new research shows how brain regions communicate during the creation of music and find that extensive musical training affects the structure and function of different brain regions and even how the brain interprets and integrates sensory information.

These insights suggest potential new roles for musical training including fostering plasticity in the brain, an alternative tool in education, and treating a range of learning disabilities.

The new findings say that:

  • Long-term high level musical training has a broader impact than previously thought. Researchers found that musicians have an enhanced ability to integrate sensory information from hearing, touch, and sight.
  • The age at which musical training begins affects brain anatomy as an adult; beginning training before the age of seven has the greatest impact.
  • Brain circuits involved in musical improvisation are shaped by systematic training, leading to less reliance on working memory and more extensive connectivity within the brain.

Some of the brain changes that occur with musical training reflect the automation of task (much as one would recite a multiplication table) and the acquisition of highly specific sensorimotor and cognitive skills required for various aspects of musical expertise.

“Playing a musical instrument is a multisensory and motor experience that creates emotions and motions — from finger tapping to dancing — and engages pleasure and reward systems in the brain. It has the potential to change brain function and structure when done over a long period of time,” said press conference moderator Gottfried Schlaug, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “As today’s findings show, intense musical training generates new processes within the brain, at different stages of life, and with a range of impacts on creativity, cognition, and learning.”

-Presented at the Neuroscience 2013 annual meeting.

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Practice Tip: How to change tempo and key of a recording for FREE!

September 25, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

In this video, I explain how to use the free program “Audacity” to change the tempo, speed, and key of any recording for music practicing purposes. This is particularly useful when you want to practice with a “Play-Along” accompaniment track, but you are not ready to play it at the recorded tempo quite yet.

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Want your child to be a great multi-tasker? Head out to music lessons

September 4, 2013 by Love Nurtured Music

Hearing the Music, Honing the Mind

By Rigo Murillo

I just came across an October 2010 Scientific American article, in which neuroscientists examined the benefits of learning and practicing music. They found a direct correlation of music learning to the enhancement of general learning ability. Another confirmation of the fact that music makes people smarter.

The researchers found that “assiduous instrument training from an early age can help the brain to process sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to tensor calculus.” They also discovered that music lessons improves memory and concentration throughout one’s life and boosts the ability to multitask, work in disruptive environments and learning other languages.

This information comes handy at a time when many schools and education administrators are deciding to cut music and arts programs as a first resource. A report mentioned in the article found that, for example, the number of students enrolled in music programs in California dropped 50% from 1999 to 2004.

It seems that it is time for the scientists to educate the educators… just saying. What do you think?

Give Your Child The Gift of Music

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