The bowhold and violin hold, two essential foundations for learning to play the violin, are starting to feel natural and easier to do. These two skills need to be habitual for our new student to focus attention on the next major advance –learning to play the Twinkle rhythms!
What’s left to learn in these last two lessons in the 10 Weeks to Twinkles Series? This long post shows how to take students and parents through the key points of learning to play each of the Twinkle variations and the Theme at the right tempo. ...
Titles: Let's Begin (Traditional) * French Tune (Traditional) * Stroll Along (Traditional) * Come and Play (Traditional) * Mary Had a Little Lamb (Traditional) * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Folk Song / Suzuki) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Old MacDonald (Traditional) * Go Tell ...
Five Easy Rhythms How to Tune the Violin How to Form a Fabulous Fourth Finger Teach the Music Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus Bourrée by Handel, a Dance from France Hunters’ Chorus – Singing on horses Allegro by Fiocco and the Problem of Speed Country Dance by von Weber Minuet in G, Lud...
first song on the list is the Twinkle Variations which is the same easy song played over & over in different rhythms. In the beginning, playing can look and sound mechanical, especially when somebody is learning violin using the Suzuki method. As playing improves, expression would be more ...
By Week 8, Violin Beginners and their parents have seen the promised land. The final mysteries of Twinkle’s structure have been unveiled, and by learning to play the sections, the vision of the whole piece emerges from the weeks of carefully practised elements. ...
Whether they are slurred as in Hilary’s performance or not, playing the triplet rhythms in the opening theme presents few problems. It becomes more challenging to maintain and project the same rhythmic impulse in the solo sections, with their exciting semiquaver runs, especially in measures 31 ...
For some musicians, it fades away with lots of playing on stage or becomes controllable enough to add a little spark to the music. In a newsletter two years ago, I told of my first experience of these perplexing sensations of nervousness while playing in public at the age of 6 or so. ...
Here’s a few tips to help you study and memorise the 1st movement. Make use of repeated melodies Like most composers, Mozart uses repetition to establish and reinforce his melodies in the minds of the audience, and create a sense of the whole after only one performance. ...
When you’ve organised a good studio space and put together the scores and equipment needed to start teaching, it’s time to find new students. Actually, attracting them isn’t so difficult. As you and I know, learning to play violin is a very desirable activity, and as a school princip...