Teacher Tree

I did a little research for fun to see what I could find out about my cello "family" tree. I thought it would be good for my students to see that they are connected to all those names at the top of their music. This shows student/teacher relationships going back as far as I could. They are vertically arranged by birth date. The colors are just to help make it easier to follow in the crowded areas. Hope you can see it. I'm not sure how to make it bigger.

HaRD enough

During practice, there is too easy, too hard and just hard enough to be really making progress. Staying in that zone is tricky, but one sign post to look out for is the phase I call HRD. It stands for a "Halting Run-through with Do-overs" (thanks to James Stern for the term). It should sound familiar to anyone who has ever tried to learn some music. It means that you can get through the passage or section (or whole thing) but you have to stop and start and sometimes go back to correct mistakes.