Somebody fix that tap!! A fun little brain-teaser of a piece … use the right hand to pluck the open strings and the left hand to gently tap the body of the violin!
Somebody fix that tap!! A fun little brain-teaser of a piece … use the right hand to pluck the open strings and the left hand to gently tap the body of the violin!
Mm-mmmm ... make your bowing and your string crossings smooth and creamy in this delicious, nutritious piece in ¾ time. No jerky arm movements! Glug glug …
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!
Keep a steady pulse of three in a bar and create a sound as majestic and mysterious as the snowy owl! Not too loud or you’ll scare away the lemmings!
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!
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!
Produce perfect plucking... pronto! Pit - Sea - Car - Toe promotes punchy pizzicato practice, progressively pacing proceedings. Progress your pizzicato with pizzazz!
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!
A great beginner piece featuring open string notes and rests (the silences in between). Try it in 4/4 and then, twice as fast, in 2/4! Open-and-shut ... case closed!!
Use the 3rd finger of the left hand to plink-plonk-pluck the strings! Usually we use the right hand, but the little plus sign (+) tells you to use the left hand instead!
Oooooh … … decisions … decisions!! Tuck in to this yummy little piece and watch out for the tied notes at the end of each line … looks like two notes but it’s one!
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!
Give your 1st finger a proper exercise session with this first-finger-focused exercise based on quaver and dotted quaver rhythms!
Practise your scales with different rhythm patterns, to make your left and right hand movements more independent, and improve your coordination.
Can you survive the 10 Beat Challenge? A great exercise for warming up your bowing, and for making clear and consistent sounds on whole bows.
Here's the scale of C Major in one octave. Listen, sing, then play along with the track until you know the pattern from memory!
This famous Viennese Waltz by Johann Strauss II was inspired by the river Danube, one of the longest rivers in Europe.
This famous sea shanty from the 1800s tells the story of sailors hunting whales near New Zealand. Here's an exclusive ViolinSchool / Violin Orchestra version!
Download the sheet music for this exercise from the ViolinSchool library at: https://www.violinschool.com/library/on-the-straight-and-narrow/ This exercise helps you to avoid going out of tune when moving your finger from one string to the next. As we move the first finger towards the E string, it becomes slightly more curved, which can create a tendency to play […]
Who will win in this game of two halves … the lower half or the upper half of the bow?! Each half is competing to be the most exact and the most pleasing to the ear!
Here's the scale of A Major in one octave. Listen, sing, then play along with the track until you know the pattern from memory!
Here's the scale of D Major in one octave. Listen, sing, then play along with the track until you know the pattern from memory!
Here's the scale of G Major in one octave. Listen, sing, then play along with the track until you know the pattern from memory!
A jaunty Baroque dance for two! This famous tune by English composer Henry Purcell will have your fingers springing sprightly up and down the G major scale!
Rejoice! Here's the popular Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's oratorio Messiah. In this arrangement, you only need to use one finger on the strings. Hallelujah to that!
