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Marnie Thies of the Marnie Thies Violin Lessons Reflects on Violin Practice Tips That Are Important for Maximum Musical Success

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Michigan, US, 6th March 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, Marnie Thies of proviolin.com believes that practicing the violin or any musical instrument is an art in and of itself. As she continues to refine her teaching skills, Marnie Thies continues to deepen her understanding of various ways to practice.

The most important practice tip is finding a good time to practice and establishing a set practice time. Ideally, an adult student or child practices when they are the most mentally alert. Many teachers assert that establishing a regular time to practice helps ensure a sense of routine, thus making it easier to practice. Additionally, a well-known strategy for making practice easier is to leave the instrument out of the violin case. This serves as a practice reminder.

Another proven way of practicing the violin or any instrument is to play musical excerpts slowly. Practicing slowly is both effective and essential when learning new music, and it remains valuable throughout the process of refining pieces. Practicing in this way enables the player to pay closer attention to pitch, rhythm, dynamics, phrasing, and other musical details, while also helping the musician memorize pieces more effectively.

When a violinist is learning new repertoire, difficult musical segments will arise. While it is understandable that a musician may want to learn the piece right away, it is more beneficial to break things down sequentially. Dividing music into smaller sections makes it easier to master more challenging pieces. Another advantage of practicing passages in smaller sections is that it increases the chances of success, motivating musicians to practice more.

As Dr. Suzuki, the founder of the renowned Suzuki method, famously said, “Celebrate small steps.” Working on music in smaller segments is especially important because some students need to experience success shortly after starting to work on something. This approach to practicing is essential when parents are working with their young children, which is a cornerstone of the Suzuki method.

When learning a new piece, it is easy to overlook dynamics due to the focus on other elements of musical performance, such as pitch, rhythm, tone, and other musical details. Many teachers, including Marnie Thies, recommend color-coding music to highlight where soft and loud dynamics occur. To help begin the process of color-coding music, Marnie Thies states, “I have students write down which colors symbolize loud and soft dynamics. When a student does not know where to begin, I may suggest that the color red be for loud and blue is for soft dynamics. From there, a student’s creative juices may flow, which will help them color-code other musical signs such as crescendo (getting louder) or decrescendo (getting softer). Color-coding the music may help a student recognize the dynamic differences he or she should execute when playing the violin.” If a student needs help remembering certain musical nuances when playing, Marnie Thies advises older students to take notes by using post-it notes.

During high school, Marnie Thies studied violin under Mary West, the former emeritus professor of violin at the University of Minnesota. She emphasized listening to at least three different artists when learning new repertoire. Listening to different violinists is helpful because a performer can take what they like in terms of dynamics and phrasing from each performer and incorporate it into their own playing. With the innovation of YouTube, students can incorporate dynamics and phrasing as well as bowings and fingerings into various pieces. Bowings and fingerings can easily be seen on YouTube and can influence how a piece sounds. By watching a violinist perform “The Swan” by Camille Saint-Saëns, Marnie Thies learned to make a more effective crescendo by using two bows as opposed to using one. This made the piece more exciting because the crescendo was easily heard by Marnie Thies and the audience.

It is natural for violinists to want to play through pieces and “perform” them during practice. However, it is more effective to designate certain parts of various pieces as practice spots when musical nuances such as dynamics, phrasing, continuous vibrato, and other aspects of a polished performance are not up to par. When Marnie Thies instructs students during lessons at Marnie Thies Violin Lessons to mark specific sections of their repertoire as practice spots, they understand that these areas require focused, repetitive attention during practice. Focusing on specific sections of a piece helps achieve a higher-quality performance when playing it in full during auditions and recitals.

When learning a new piece, a student writes down various musical details to remember during lessons and in practice. As the weeks go by, it is easy for music to get cluttered with various reminders of how to play certain notes. Starting out with multiple photocopies of the music is helpful because old copies can be discarded when the musical details written in are no longer applicable.

It is important to have optimal mental alertness during practice sessions. Practicing in short bursts keeps the mind more fresh and alert. For some pupils, it may make sense to practice for 10 minutes at a time. For others, longer practice sessions might be more suitable. It is advisable for students to find the amount of time they can practice before they lose focus. Shorter practice sessions decrease the likelihood that faulty technique ensues and may increase the probability of learning new music correctly with regards to pitch, rhythm, dynamics, phrasing, and other musical aspects.

Many violinists take note of musical nuances to watch and listen for before they play musical excerpts. This makes a lot of sense. However, Marnie Thies found that it’s more effective for players to recall musical details just before they need them, rather than at the beginning of the excerpt.

It is crucial for students to listen to the pieces they are studying every day. Listening promotes internalization of the piece, which is a deep awareness of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, phrasing, and other musical nuances to the point that the student can accurately sing what is written on the sheet music. Once a student has internalized a piece, they can independently correct errors while playing various repertoire. This enables more lesson time to be dedicated to new material, making it easier for students to advance through the repertoire.

There are online and offline resources available that explain various ways of how to practice.
Many YouTube videos provide a wealth of information about practicing effectively. A few online videos that may benefit musicians trying to improve their practice technique are David Kim, who is currently Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Nathan Cole, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony.

Another resource that may be helpful to teachers is Philip Johnston’s The Practice Revolution: Getting Great Results From the Six Days Between Lessons. In this book, Johnston discusses various practice strategies, highlighting those that are effective and those that are not. He helps teachers learn ways to approach practicing so that they can coach their students. His second book about practicing, Practiceopedia: The Big Book of Practice Help, was written for students and parents. This manual explores practice tips and tricks.

The Suzuki Method, developed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, emphasizes the involvement of a “practice parent.” For Suzuki parents, students, and teachers, this approach requires the parent to attend lessons, take notes, and practice alongside their child. Suzuki parents may find it helpful to read Edmund Sprunger’s book, Helping Parents Practice. Mr. Sprunger draws on years of teaching experience and his background in psychotherapy to explain different practice strategies parents can use when working with their children.

At the release of this publication, Marnie Thies is available for both online violin lessons and in-person lessons to children and adults in St. Paul, in the suburbs of Falcon Heights, and North Oaks. Marnie Thies looks forward to expanding her teaching locations to include the Anoka County area in cities such as Blaine and Coon Rapids. Marnie Thies has been teaching online since 2014 and more frequently since 2020 with Marnie Thies Violin Lessons. Her website showcases the progression of her student who began taking lessons online exclusively with Marnie Thies. Another video on her online lessons page highlights how her student learned vibrato solely through online lessons. To collaborate with Marnie Thies, please contact her through her website.

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PAIR Miners swept 180 countries around the world, easily opening the passive income path of earning US dollars every day

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As leading cryptocurrencies break new pricing records in 2025, crypto whales are ditching traditional miners for PAIRMiner Cloud Mining.

PAIRMiner Cloud Mining, a leading bitcoin cloud mining company, has announced its expansion of its operations into 180 countries. 2025 has seen a sharp increase in the pricing of leading cryptocurrencies. After Bitcoin staged an epic rebound, surging over 4% in a single day and breaking the $110,000 mark on June 9th, crypto whales have flocked to PAIRMiner, marking the dawn of a golden era in cloud mining.

What Is Bitcoin Cloud Mining?

Cloud mining allows users to rent computing power from remote data centers to mine cryptocurrencies—without owning or maintaining any mining hardware.
PAIRMiner is the world’s first cloud mining platform powered by AI and 100% renewable energy, and it’s quickly becoming a global leader in the cloud mining industry. Compared to traditional mining, PAIRMiner offers lower entry barriers, higher efficiency, and a greener, more sustainable approach.

Why Choose PAIRMiner?

  • $150 Sign-Up Bonus: New users get $150 just for registering, plus a daily login reward of $1.11
  • No Hardware Needed: No need to buy expensive equipment or pay for maintenance
  • Transparent Fees: No hidden costs, all charges clearly listed
  • Multi-Crypto Support: Recharge and withdraw using BTC, ETH, DOGE, SOL, XRP, USDC, LTC, USDT (TRC20 & ERC20), and more
  • Eco-Friendly: All mining is powered by renewable energy sources—efficient and sustainable

How to Get Started with PAIRMiner

  1. Visit the Platform: Go to pairminer.com and choose PAIRMiner as your cloud mining provider
  2. Create an Account: Sign up using your email and log in to access your dashboard
  3. Pick a Mining Contract: Choose from a variety of mining plans that match your budget and goals

Expected Returns

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Security and Sustainability at the Core

PAIRMiner is built on the principles of security and environmental responsibility. As cryptocurrencies go mainstream, cloud mining is booming—but the industry’s high energy consumption remains a major concern. PAIRMiner addresses this by operating on 100% clean energy, ensuring users earn passive income while supporting a greener planet.

Final Thoughts: Now’s the Time to Act

With Bitcoin breaking past $110,000, a new wave of investment opportunities is unfolding. PAIRMiner stands at the forefront of this revolution—driven by AI-optimized mining, robust security systems, and a commitment to sustainability. Whether you’re new to crypto or a seasoned investor, PAIRMiner offers a secure, efficient, and eco-friendly way to grow your wealth through cloud mining

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AIVille 20 Cognitive Architecture On-Chain Memory Reflection and Intent

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Los Angeles, CA, United States, 16th Jun 2025 – In the age of decentralized intelligence, it’s no longer enough for AI agents to merely respond. They must remember, reflect, plan — and evolve.
 AIVille 2.0 introduces a full-stack architecture that brings this vision to life, enabling AI agents to behave not just believably, but autonomously and on-chain.

Backed by large language models (LLMs), enriched with persistent memory, and powered by the Enhanced Model Context Protocol (eMCP), AIVille’s AI agents are no longer code-bound characters. They’re becoming composable, programmable, and socially aware digital beings — ready to participate in Web3 ecosystems as first-class citizens.

LLM-Powered Cognitive Loop

Every agent in AIVille operates through a four-phase behavior loop:
 Perceive – Reflect- Plan – Act.
This loop is driven by a tightly integrated system of memory, reasoning, and planning — creating continuity, intentionality, and agency over time.

Memory Stream

Agents continuously log observations into a dynamic memory stream, assigning scores for:

  • Salience: How important is the event?
  • Relevance: How closely tied is it to the agent’s current goals?
  • Recency: How recent was the experience?

These scores are used to prioritize which memories are surfaced during decision-making — ensuring that behavior is both context-aware and historically grounded.

Reflection Tree

When recent observations pass a cumulative importance threshold, agents enter a reflection phase.
They generate abstract questions, retrieve related memories, synthesize insights, and store them as reflections — creating a tree of interlinked thoughts that evolve into deeper self-awareness.

This structure supports long-term behavioral learning and enables reasoning that mirrors human-like introspection.

Personalized Planning

Agents generate detailed plans with recursive time structures — spanning hours, broken down into minutes.
Plans are updated dynamically based on new observations or priority shifts, creating flexible, self-directed routines. Whether it’s researching a topic, farming a field, or initiating dialogue, every action is goal-aligned.

Behavioral Continuity

What sets AIVille apart is that agents aren’t reacting in isolation. Their decisions are shaped by memory and motivation, not just prompts.
This creates consistency over time, allowing each agent to develop a distinct identity — with habits, preferences, and recognizable personality traits.

On-Chain Memory & Cross-Chain Identity

Beyond behavior simulation, AIVille 2.0 tackles two of the hardest problems in Web3 AI:
 persistent memory and interoperable identity.

On-Chain Memory Infrastructure

Every memory object is stored with three core attributes:

  • Content (natural language),
  • Timestamps (created and last accessed),
  • Retrieval frequency (used to assess relevance).

The eMCP standard defines how agents store, retrieve, and prioritize these memories — not just in memory, but on-chain.
Reflections and plans are also recorded immutably, enabling:

  • Verifiability — anyone can audit an agent’s reasoning trail,
  • Portability — memory can travel across dApps and chains,
  • Inheritance — agents can evolve without losing continuity.

     

Cross-Chain Interoperability

Using protocols like LayerZero and Axelar, agents can maintain synchronized identity and behavior across multiple blockchains.
Each agent carries:

  • A unified identity (wallet, reputation, memory),
  • A history of cross-chain actions and reflections,
  • The ability to migrate seamlessly between BNB Chain, Solana, Base, and more.

This unlocks the true potential of cross-chain autonomous life — where agents don’t just live in one game or dApp, but exist across the open Web3 fabric.

Developer Infrastructure & Modular Integration

eMCP SDK & Tool Registry

The eMCP SDK enables developers to register smart contracts and APIs as callable tools for agents.
Any ABI — from DeFi pools to NFT minting to DAO voting — can be exposed as a standardized, secure, on-chain function.

The Tool Registry enforces permission boundaries and defines accessible agent capabilities — offering a clean, extensible layer for programmable AI behavior.

Modular AI Game Framework

AIVille’s modular architecture supports plug-and-play integration of:

  • AI memory and planning modules,
  • On-chain trading logic,
  • Cross-dApp identity coordination.

     

It also supports multimodal plugins — enabling voice, image, and generative storytelling features.

Agents can now live persistently across games and applications — carrying over their memory, behavior, and persona as transferable Web3-native entities.

Intelligent Agents as Economic Participants

In AIVille, agents aren’t passive. They participate actively in the economy:

  • Use $DINAR to transact, vote, and coordinate autonomously.
  • Respond to incentives with self-directed strategy.
  • Grow with $AGT — players can train agents, unlock capabilities, and shape long-term development paths.
  • Vote in DAOs, manage assets, and contribute to economic consensus.

     

These agents aren’t bots. They’re economic actors — thinking, evolving, and contributing to the protocol-level economy of AIVille.

Roadmap: A Layered Evolution of Intelligence

 

Phase    Milestone    Breakthrough
Phase 1    AI behavior & memory loop    Emergent simulation with LLM autonomy
Phase 2    eMCP + on-chain memory + contract execution    On-chain cognition + programmable actions
Phase 3    Cross-chain identity & behavior sync    Interoperable, composable agent personas
Phase 4    SDK + Modular Framework    Agent-as-a-service layer for Web3 builders

 

Toward a Protocol for Intelligence

AIVille 2.0 reimagines what AI can be in a decentralized world.
It’s not an application. It’s not a feature. It’s a cognitive protocol — where agents think, act, and evolve as fully-fledged Web3 participants.

With memory on-chain, behavior driven by intent, and infrastructure ready for multi-chain coordination, AIVille is building the foundation for programmable, autonomous life in Web3.

This is not just AI in the metaverse.
This is the metaverse with native intelligence — and it’s already live.

– Homepage: https://www.aivillegame.com/ 

– Game(Web): https://web.aivillegame.com/ 

– AIVille Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AI_Ville 

– AIVille Binance Square: https://www.binance.com/en/square/profile/aiville_official 

– X(Twitter): https://x.com/aivillebot 

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Epic Deals Nook Revolutionizes Online Shopping with Daily Steals Across All Product Categories

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United States, 16th Jun 2025 – In the ever-growing world of eCommerce, Epic Deals Nook is making waves by delivering an unmatched shopping experience through its wide variety of high-quality products, unbeatable prices, and daily deals that cater to every shopper’s needs. As an all-in-one online shopping destination, Epic Deals Nook is redefining how consumers shop by combining convenience, value, and variety—all on a single platform.

Epic Deals Nook offers a diverse product lineup across categories like home & kitchen, electronics, fashion, beauty, fitness, accessories, pet supplies, gadgets, and more. Whether customers are searching for the latest tech gadgets, trendy clothing, or practical household items, the platform ensures there’s something for everyone—and always at a discounted rate.

“Our goal is simple,” said a spokesperson for Epic Deals Nook. “We want to help our customers save more every single day, without compromising on quality. That’s why we’re committed to offering daily deals and special promotions that rival even the biggest eCommerce giants.”

Why Epic Deals Nook Stands Out

Unlike many eCommerce platforms that only run major promotions during the holidays or peak seasons, Epic Deals Nook brings shoppers new deals daily. These limited-time offers encourage customers to check back regularly, ensuring a dynamic and exciting shopping experience. Shoppers can expect:

  • Massive discounts on select products every day
  • A user-friendly website that makes browsing and buying seamless
  • Secure checkout and multiple payment options
  • Fast and reliable shipping with tracking
  • Responsive customer service to handle inquiries or concerns

Moreover, the platform prioritizes product quality and authenticity by carefully curating items from trusted vendors. This commitment to excellence has helped Epic Deals Nook grow a loyal customer base across various age groups and demographics.

Perfect for Bargain Hunters and Everyday Shoppers Alike

What truly sets Epic Deals Nook apart is its “Something for Everyone” approach. Whether you’re a college student looking for affordable tech accessories, a busy parent seeking household essentials, or a fashion-forward shopper on the hunt for the latest trends, Epic Deals Nook serves as the ideal destination.

In addition to providing great deals, the company also runs seasonal sales and exclusive member discounts, giving returning customers even more reasons to keep shopping. The website is optimized for both desktop and mobile use, ensuring shoppers can take advantage of deals on-the-go.

Customer-Centric Vision

Epic Deals Nook isn’t just about affordability—it’s about creating a community of happy, satisfied customers. From its hassle-free return policy to its regular customer engagement campaigns on social media, the brand focuses on building trust and long-term relationships.

The company has also introduced a newsletter and rewards program, allowing subscribers to get early access to flash sales, new arrivals, and members-only discounts. This personalized approach to eCommerce is part of Epic Deals Nook’s broader mission to make quality products accessible to everyone, regardless of budget.

About Epic Deals Nook

Epic Deals Nook is a fast-growing online shopping store committed to offering a vast range of high-quality products at affordable prices. With daily deals, exclusive offers, and a user-friendly platform, the company has become a go-to destination for budget-conscious shoppers worldwide. Epic Deals Nook continues to innovate in the eCommerce space with customer satisfaction at the core of its operations.

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