Articles & Blogs

• How to find talented piano accompanists and performers, good sources for finding pianists, live in-person accompaniment for violin and other instruments
  4 Ways to Find Live Piano Accompanists
  
• How can one improve their playing of the Paganini Caprices and similarly challenging works? Can people with smaller hands playing Paganini? Discover Paganini's secrets as told through Mr. Kross
  Emil Kross and Playing Paganini
  
• Dive into Emil Kross' rare book on the art of playing Paganini and mastering incredible technical feats
  The Study of Paganini's Twenty-Four Caprices
  
• How did Paganini stand while playing the violin? See a description with photographic examples
  Correct Position of the Hand and Arm
  
• A popular shoulder rest in the 1800s and 1900s and how to properly position a shoulder rest and the neck on the violin?
  Chinrest and Correct Positioning
  
• Additional information on the Becker Chinrest and Louis Spohr's view on the left hand in the higher positions
  Louis Spohr's Fourth Position
  
• Emil Kross examines the validity and usefulness of aforementioned hand positions and describes his ideal form
  Paganini's Hand Positions
  
• Finger placement and Proper Hand setting for chords exercises. What are the benefits of practicing correct hand positioning on the violin or viola to playing advanced music?
  Playing Demanding Music with Proper Hand Posture
  
• Once an excellent hand posture was established, one should strengthen it with simple exercises. Mr. Kross details the benefits of his recommendations
  Practicing the Left-Hand Hold of the Violin or Viola
  
• What are the hardest pieces ever written for the violin? We challenge you to find pieces more demonic than these..
  The Hardest Violin Pieces Ever Written
  
• Carl Guhr, a big fan of Paganini, had written much about how Niccolo played in his book. What were the advantages of such technique?
  Records and Witnesses to Paganini's Manner of Performing
  
• We worked hard to bring you the ability to play at any tempo while avoiding the typical loss of quality that comes with playback speed alteration
  Lossless audio quality and tempo change
  
• Playing with digital accompaniment is much easier when you can change the current measure by simply clicking where you'd like it to go. Read about our automatic score display.
  auto-scrolling interactive sheet music
  
• Your repertoire grows and ours grows with you: Request new pieces at any time. If we can do so without copyright issues, we will
  Request New Pieces
  
• Features and products that will make every-day practice easier, more interactive, interesting, and productive
  What can WeAccompany offer you?
  
• Practice those pesky spots as many times as you like when you activate WeAccompany's easily adjustable looping feature
  Looping challenging musical phrases
  
• Your sheet music should be easily viewable on your mobile device. We created downloadable scores specially adapted for mobile display
  Sheet Music PDFs adapted to device size
  
• All instruments should have access to accompaniment
  Multi-instrument support