Practicing Hacks
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This week in Live Practice with Ari, I got a little carried away. I had four big concepts lined up. One of them: how often chord
Ariane Cap
December 12, 2025
This week in Live Practice with Ari, I got a little carried away. I had four big concepts lined up. One of them: how often chord
When Performing doesn’t go as practiced… There is a reason. And a remedy! We likely have all been there… aced the tune in the practice
Ari, I am cheating! I am often amazed at what my students think constitutes “cheating” and hence dutifully try to avoid. Let’s clear up some
We are getting all Shakespearean here but it is indeed that deep (ha!) of a question: To Fill or not to Fill? Whether ‘tis nobler
Called to solo and feel cold sweat coming on? Wrestling with a million thoughts in your mind and feeling like you have to now play
Slappety-Slap Mania Last week the exuberant spectacle known as the NAMM show occurred in Anaheim, California. (I wrote about what the NAMM Show is here).
The Horror of Errors In this article I answer a question on quora about errors. Errors are a difficult topic for me personally because I
If you want to remember something, make it emotional Very often we can vividly recall times/moments of our lives that were very dramatic; or loaded
Is your Bass sounding Timid and Quiet on one particular string? In a bass we want as balanced a sound as possible. If one of
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