Let's Warm-Up!

 This new series Let's Warm-Up!, started almost two months ago and we have been having a great time! I plan on it being once a week but sometimes it could be less or more. :-) The donation for this is a minimum of $3.50 US for each warm-up session. Please send your donation to paypal.me/vierabolter. The sessions are one hour in length. Those who want to donate more are of course welcome. Lots of people told me they like group warm-ups so here is one all can try. (They will not all be the same!). Anyone under 18 yrs. needs to make sure they have parental consent because of the use of paypal. If an interest develops, I will have a younger player version of Let’s Warm-Up! These regular sessions in general might not be as useful for middle school or young high school players but, there are always exceptions. NEXT Let's Warm-Up! is Monday 2/8, 11-12pm EST. 

Hope to see you there!

New Monthly Masterclass Series!

 Hello All!

I am starting my new Monthly Masterclass series this coming Saturday 1/23, at 11am EST. The title is The Mechanics of Warming-Up. Please send in your donations a day in advance (1/22), so you can get a Zoom link. Send your donations to paypal.me/vierabolter. If you are late, please text me no later than a half hour before the class at six-one-seven, seven-five-nine, one-six-two-zero. or email me at normtobe at gmail dot com. The donations are $10 for students and 15-$20 for non students, professionals and teachers. Please feel free to email me and ask to be put on the email list for updates about all the masterclasses and other offerings.

Monthly Masterclass Series topics snd more information!

This series of masterclasses will be given monthly. The donation for these classes will be $10 for all students and $15-20 for everyone else. The classes will meet once a month, exact dates to be determined but they generally will be near the end of the month usually on Saturday mornings.The first one is being planned for Saturday January 23rd from 11-12:30pm EST. These masterclasses will cover a wide range of territories. Here is a partial list:

-The Mechanics of Warming -Up 1/23/21,11-12:30pm EST on Zoom

- Bolter Embouchure Anatomy 

- Methods of Creative Practice

-The A.R.T. of Teaching

-The A.R.T. of the Student

- The Personal Art

- Building Your Relationship with Music

- Blinded by Sound

- To Thyself Be True

- High Range Development

- 3 Dimensional Sound

- The Trinity of Rhythm, Pitch and Timber

- Finding the Right Vibrato for You 

- Art-iculation 

- Airmbouchure

- The Many Ways of Breathing 

- It’s Not All in the Air-or is it?

- The Book of Can Do

- Concepts and Mechanics

- Recovering from a Playing Injury

- Approaching an Embouchure Change; Teachers Take Note

-  Teacher’s Guide to Unlocking a Student’s Potential

- What Does it Mean to be a Natural Player?

- Odd and Curious Techniques for Brass Players

- A Beginning Look into the Overlay System

- Section Playing, an energy worlds perspective

- New Routes for Old Ruts

- Music as a Living Thing

- Excerptitis, Excerptmania, Excerptphobia; how to deal with them

- The Wonderful World of Vowels

-What Does It Mean To Be Musical?

- The Personal Science

- and more....

Quite an extensive list that will go on for more than two years! Of course if there are those of you that see ones you would like me to do, or would like a masterclass on a topic you do not see on this list, please let me know. Teachers might also want to have certain ones done (or suggest other ones), at their schools for their students. I am certainly open and happy to this! The price would have to be negotiated. 

I hope these prices are doable for most people. From what I have seen around the place, I feel they are reasonable especially considering their depth of content, live interaction and approach that they come with. If someone is truly in need, please get in touch with me. 

Hope to see you at some of these soon!