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Beginning Lessons: Level 1 Syllabus
Getting Started
Getting Started
With the Curriculum
Watch This If You Are a Beginner and New to Violin Lab
Best Practices for your Best Practices: creating effective practice sessions
Setting Up
Instrument Set Up
Putting Guide Tapes on the Violin
Tuning the Violin
Shoulder Pad Styles
Putting on the Shoulder pad
Adjusting the Bon Musica
Tightening the Bow
Rosining the Bow
Violin Hold
Comfortability Issues
Note Names of Open Strings
Tuning with the Pegs
Establishing
the Right Hand First
How to Hold the Bow
Bow Hold Exercises
Bow Geometry
Preparing the Bow Arm
1
First Bow Strokes
Guided Practice Introduction
Guided Practice #1:Playing in the Middle of the Bow
Playing at the Tip of the Bow
Bowing at the Frog
Guided Practice #2: Playing at the Frog and Tip
Crossing Strings
Guided Practice #3: String Crossings
Whole Bow Strokes
Guided Practice #4: Whole Bow Strokes
Establishing
the Left Hand Next
Left Hand Set Up: part 1 - Overview
Left Hand Set up: part 2 - Finger Action of the Left Hand
Left Hand Set up: part 3 - Thumb Placement
Left Hand Set up: part 4 - Rotation Angles
Left Hand Set up: part 5- Inside of Hand
Finger Action and Finger Pressure
Adding Fingers to Bow Stroke
2-3 Finger Spacing Pattern
Left Hand Exercises to Build Good Finger Action and Hand Placement
String Crossings for the Left Hand
Fingers and Bow Strokes: Pre-Twinkle Exercises
Note Names for Finger Spacing Pattern 1
2
Technique
Tone and Intonation:
Development Stage 1
Tone Production 1: Finding the Ring Tones
Intonation: part 1
Intonation: part II
Consistent Finger Placement and Intonation
Right Hand
Bow Arm Tension: Getting Rid of the Bounce
Bow Retakes
Stiffness in the Wrist and Fingers of the Bow Arm
Maintaining a "Straight Bow" part 1
Maintaining a Straight Bow prt. 2
Maintaining a "Straight Bow" prt.3
Maintaining a "Straight Bow" prt.4
Left Hand
Fingertips hitting other strings
Left Hand Mobility and Relaxation
Playing Comfortably on the G String
Guided Practice #5: Finger Spacing Pattern 1
Using 4th finger
Skips with Finger Spacing Pattern 1
Skips Exercise: Explanation
Skips Exercise: Demo
Guided Practice #6: Skips, part 1
Guided Practice #7: Skips, part 2
Block Fingerings
3
Consistent Finger Placement and Intonation
Repertoire
Suzuki Book 1 and
Violin Lab Repertoire
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Lesson 1: Variation A
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 2: Variation C
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 3: Variation D
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 4: Variation E
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 5: Variation B
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 6: Learning the Left Hand
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Lesson 7: Putting it All Together
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: lesson 8: Twinkle Theme
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: performance
French Folk Song
Lightly Row: tutorial
Song of the Wind: tutorial
Go Tell Aunt Rhody: tutorial
May Song: tutorial
O Come, Little Children: tutorial
Are You Sleeping in A major
Long, Long Ago: tutorial
Allegro: tutorial
Perpetual Motion: tutorial
Etudes, Scales, and Exercises
Exercises and Concepts
to Review
Bow Hold Exercises
4
Whole Bow Strokes
Open String Duets with Beth - Set 1
Left Hand Mobility and Relaxation
D Major Scale (practicing the scale)
Broken Third Pattern
Open String Duets with Beth - set 2
Intonation: part II
Maintaining a "Straight Bow" prt.4
Etudes and Scales
D Major Scale (note demonstration)
D Major Scale (practicing the scale)
Art of Practicing: part 1: Isolating
Watch Even Though You Are Not There Yet
Key Concepts of Right
Arm Technique
Stiffness in the Wrist and Fingers of the Bow Arm
Slurs
Maintaining a Straight Bow #8: The Bi-Fold Door and the Bow Arm
More on Straight Bowing: part 1 Keeping on track
Elements of Tone Production: Sounding Point, part 1
String Crossings Series: part 1: Maintaining Tone
Key Concepts
of the Left Hand
(FREE) Left Hand Squeezing: part 1: Why We Do It
Left Hand Squeezing part 2: Security Matters
5
Left Hand Squeezing: part 3 - Restructuring
Left Hand Squeezing: part 4 - Strengthening the Hand
Left Hand Squeezing: part 5 - How Much Space, Really?
Left Hand Squeezing: part 6: First Finger and the E string: No Scrunching!
Left Hand Squeezing: part 7: Extras
Left Thumb: Issues with Placement and Pressure
Tension when using the Low 2nd Finger
Weaning off Tapes
Left Hand Conditioning: Strengthening and Stretching, part 1
Left Hand Conditioning: Strengthening and Stretching, part 2
When to Use 4th Finger vs. Open String
