The new academic year is about to begin, and that means it's time for our new Lessons and Coursebooks to be unleashed upon the world! Over the summer, we've been updating many of ViolinSchool's courses ... and of course our printed coursebooks too! The new (2021/2022) editions of our Coursebooks will start shipping in September […]

Time for some dynamics! Go from quiet to loud, to quiet, to very loud, to infinity and beyond!! In this lesson, we practise changing the speed, weight and contact point of the bow.

Test the speed of your left hand fingers, as Super-Speedy Super Fly flies high into the sky!

Every day from 1st September, we'll be releasing a new lesson for you on ViolinSchool.com ... and you'll find everything right here on the blog! We'll have lessons from across Courses A, B, C and D, as well as our new Starter Course, and ViolinSchool members will be able to log in and download beautiful new printed sheets for every lesson.

Here's a clapping game that will help you to stop rushing when using a metronome by 'subdividing' the notes ... follow along with Simon from ViolinSchool as you clap and play the notes ... exactly in time with the beat!

How do you learn where to place your fingers on the violin? One of the easiest and quickest ways to learn how to get the right notes is by learning FINGER PATTERNS. Here's Finger Pattern 1 ...

Do you use Finger Patterns? They're a really useful way of thinking about where to put your fingers on the violin. Why are they so useful? Well, if you know which finger pattern you need for a particular key, you don't need to worry about remembering each interval.