Zzzzzzzzzoooom! The Super Speedy Super-Fly goes super-fast and super-high ... buzzing around happily in A major … up, up, up to a top A on the E string!
Click here to download Super Speedy Super-Fly from the ViolinSchool Library!
Mooooooooo! Get used to the sound of each string with this onomatopoeic piece for beginners! Try our version and then make up your own animal sound for each string!
Click here to download Meow, Quack Quack, Baa Baa, Moo from the ViolinSchool Library!
We're super-excited here at ViolinSchool, because the much-loved Christian Howes is coming to visit our London school later this month for a Creative Strings London residency.
We'll be sharing loooooads of Chris's teaching with you over the next few days and weeks, but to get you in the mood, here's his high-octane cover of Crazy by Gnarls Barkley... look out fot the truly crazy non-stop left hand zingy bit halfway through... Enjoy!
An expressive, flowing melody in B minor, with a lilting 6/8 time signature and undulating dotted rhythms. Aim to produce your most pure, crystalline tone.
Click here to download Crystal Stream from the ViolinSchool Library!
Chopin was inspired by Bach's '24 Preludes & Fugues' to write his 24 Preludes of his own! This is the 7th - written in the style of a Mazurka (a Polish folk dance).
Click here to download Chopin's Prelude No.7 from the ViolinSchool Library!
Whirligig ... full of swirling scales and spinning chromaticism, it’s a whirly whirly fun piece!! It’s also pretty tricky for the left hand, but try to make it sing, dance and lilt!
Click here to download Whirligig from the ViolinSchool Library!
Up and down we go over the rolling hills. A great little piece for practising lifting and dropping the first finger of the left hand … up and down … up and down … …
Click here to download The Miller's Flowers from the ViolinSchool Library!
Up and down we go over the rolling hills. A great little piece for practising lifting and dropping the first finger of the left hand … up and down … up and down … …
Click here to download Rolling Hills from the ViolinSchool Library!
Is it a Bird? ... Is it a Plane? ... No! ...It’s a Jumping Jelly Bean! Jump across the strings very rapidly indeed ... with single, double, & triple string crossings!
Click here to download Jumping Jelly Beans from the ViolinSchool Library!
A delicious, nutritious piece for newbies. Choose which string is peanut butter and which one is jelly! Cross strings smoothly for a succulent, gelatinous combo!
Click here to download Peanut Butter and Jelly from the ViolinSchool Library!
Time is of the essence! Keep a steady pulse as you practise your pizzicato (plucking). Try it first with a real metronome, then use your ‘inner metronome’ to stay in time!
Click here to download Tick-Tock, Tock-Tick from the ViolinSchool Library!
Hello everyone!
Here are two Christmas treats for you!
We've updated some of our favourite Christmas Carols for you to download and play at Christmas time!
Need the lyrics so your friends can sing along whilst you play? Click here: https://www.violinschool.com/carols/
And here's a Christmas video that our director, Simon Hewitt Jones, recently recorded for Classic FM in the UK. It's a sparkling Christmas mash-up of lots of great Christmas Carols... enjoy!
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Hi everyone! Our CHRISTMAS LIVESTREAM with the Violin Orchestra is now taking place in London!
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Here's the programme:
v1.1 Concert Programme – Violin Orchestra 9th December 2017
We’re dotty about this lovely piece for beginners! It's full of delightful dotted rhythms and smooth, slurred string crossings, gently swaying from bar to bar ...
Click here to download Polka Dot, Polka Dot from the ViolinSchool Library!
What goes up must come down! Aim for fluid, graceful arm motions and land the bow smoothly onto the string. Make nice big circles with your arm during the rests!
Click here to download Ups and Downs from the ViolinSchool Library!
Um cha cha … Um cha cha … Join us for a waltz, a delightful dance in triple time … try to feel the pattern of three beats - strong-weak-weak - in each bar … Um cha cha!
Click here to download Time for a Waltz from the ViolinSchool Library!
Practise your counting and subdividing (cutting the cake!) and make sure you’re being fair! Each bar has 3 beats, so that’s three equal slices of cake! Mm … mmm!
Click here to download Cutting the Cake from the ViolinSchool Library!
Ooh! … Ow! … Oh! … Ouch! … Oof! … Owwww! Not for the faint-hearted … see if you can make it to the end of each line, dancing along the scorching hot stave!
Click here to download Firewalk from the ViolinSchool Library!
Ready ... Steady ... Gooooooooooo!!! These fun rhythms will keep you busy while you wait for the green light! Try clapping them first, then play with the bow.
Click here to download Traffic Lights from the ViolinSchool Library!
This great beginner piece features open string notes and rests (the silences in between). Practice your halves (minims), quarters (crotchets), and eighths (quavers)... as both notes and rests!
Try it in 4/4 and then, twice as fast, in 2/4! Open-and-shut ... case closed!!
Click here to download Open-and-Shut from the ViolinSchool Library!
Merry-Go-Round could be the tune for an actual carousel! Like the music that blares out from old-fashioned fairground rides, this melody is a happy, upbeat melody, that repeats around and around.
Imagine the horses bobbing up and down on the Merry-Go-Round itself, as the rising quarter notes (crotchets) and the falling eighth notes (quavers) imitate the up and down motion that each rider enjoys!
Click here to download Merry-Go-Round from the ViolinSchool Library!
New sheet music today: the famous nursery rhyme, Old MacDonald!
Old Macdonald had a farm, and on that farm he had some accents, a crescendo, a forte, a fortissimo, and lots of lovely notes in the key of G major!
If you're new to music note reading but you know the tune to Old MacDonald Had a Farm already, then knowing the tune will help you with reading the notes. But on the other hand, you need to be sure that you're playing it in the way it's written on the page... so be careful to look at all the details (dynamics, articulation) to be sure you're playing it right!
Click here to download Old MacDonald Had a Farm from the ViolinSchool Library!
For the new academic year, we're transitioning all our Online Courses to a more robust digital platform at https://learn.violinschool.com/. This will allow you to track your learning as you move through all our video tutorials and online tuition.
You may see a few changes around ViolinSchool in the next couple of days. If you run into an error, just let us know at [email protected] and we'll fix it straight away.
Existing ViolinSchool members - you may need to reset your password or have us update your account details in order to access the online courses. Please follow the instructions you see on the site. If there are any issues, just contact us.
Enjoy!
So... we went away for the weekend and accidentally left our 5 Minute Workout Generator (David) switched on... we came back on Monday morning, and there were 350 workouts waiting for us! We're becoming addicted to practising the workouts here at ViolinSchool HQ, and by the sounds of it so are many of you! Here's the next batch, then...!
In this new video series, Setareh Mood will be taking you through a whole program of useful body exercises, that will get your muscles and joints warmed up and ready to play. Follow along with the first video, as we open up the chest and stretch the arms. We'll help you get your body flexible and supple, before you start to play!
