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Find Friends to Play With – Quick Practice Tip

Teacher: Vi Wickam

About Find Friends to Play With – Quick Practice Tip:

Hi, I’m Vi Wickam, and this is another Quick Tip of the Week!

People ask me, “How do I stay motivated when I’m playing my instrument?”

And this doesn’t matter whether it’s violin, or guitar, or mandolin, banjo, or viola!

If you can find friends who also play music, and you can get together and play music together, you will be way more motivated to keep practice.

Because practicing with your friends, playing music with your friends is fun! And we “play” music, we don’t “work” music.

So, if you can have friends, if you can find friends who play music too, and you can enjoy playing music with them, you will be more motivated to practice and more motivated to play.

And you’ll have things to work on because you will be working on things together with them!

That’s your Quick Tip of the Week!

Find friends who play music and play music with them!

About Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam of Loveland, CO has been performing fiddle and writing music since before he could read. Along with his brothers and dad, The Wickam Family Band performed regularly on Blinky’s Fun Club, a nationally syndicated TV program.

Vi’s fiddling can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including two of his own. He’s played with many different bands throughout the United States, and even briefly in England.

Among his fiddling honors, Vi has won the Colorado State Championship twice, and been a finalist four times at the Grand Masters’ Fiddler Championship. He has judged fiddle contests throughout the US, and directed regional and state level fiddle contests.

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