Title: Crystal Stream
Description: 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.
Level: Level 2
Topics: B Minor, A#s, Dotted Rhythms
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Arping On
Description: This piece has lots of arpeggios in A minor and D minor, lots and lots of arpeggios … ‘arping on … and on … and on!! Ooo … and watch out for the syncopation!
Level: Level 2
Topics: A Minor Harmonic, Syncopation, Arpeggio-based
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Hungry Hippo
Description: Hippo need food! Hippo getting ‘hangry’! Help our voracious friend find a tasty treat with this cheeky, slightly menacing piece in G minor. Watch out for the C#s!
Level: Level 2
Topics: G Minor Harmonic
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Happy-Go-Lucky
Description: Yippeeeeee! A truly delightful, lilting, waltzing melody in the sunny key of A major, with some cheeky, chirpy accidentals added! Carpe diem!
Level: Level 2
Topics: 1st, 2nd and 3rd finger chromatic movement
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Tea for Three
Description: Tea for Three, and Three for Tea! A lovely waltzing melody in A major, with some rather delicious ‘C naturals’ thrown in. Also goes well with lots of biscuits!
Level: Level 2
Topics: 2nd Finger Chromatic Movement
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Down Boy
Description: Use this fun piece to practise the down bow technique! Watch out for the crotchet rests - where you can ‘retake’ the bow to get to the next down bow.
Level: Level 2
Topics: Down bow retakes
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: The Miller's Flowers
Description: The Miller’s Flowers (‘Des Müllers Blumen’) is from Franz Schubert’s song cycle, Die Schöne Müllerin. Not only is it a lovely, chirpy tune … it’s also a brilliant bowing exercise!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Legato/Portato mixed within one bow
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Potato Portato
Description: 'Portato' is when the notes within a slur are rearticulated in order to create a smooth pulsing effect. Tricky? Don’t worry … Mr Potato's portato piece is here to help!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Portato
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Pop Goes the Weasel
Description: A great tune and a fun singing game! ... Half a pound of tupenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.
Level: Level 2
Topics:
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Amazing Grace
Description: This uplifting tune has become one of the most popular melodies on earth … First play it 'straight', then try our ‘ornamented’ version, then create your own!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Ornamentation, Triplets and Grace Notes
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it!hG9Vc
[/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Greensleeves
Description: Ah, lovely lovely Greensleeves – most probably, almost definitely not by Henry VIII! – is a traditional English folk tune and truly extraordinary earworm!
Level: Level 2
Topics: A Minor Melodic
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Sweet Dreams
Description: A gorgeous lullaby to lull you into the sweetest of dreams. Try to make a lovely and gentle sound, sprinkled with delicate little grace notes. Nighty night …
Level: Level 2
Topics: Grace Notes & Scotch Snap
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Come Rain or Shine
Description: Come rain or shine, you’ll always find us doing our violin practice! This piece is great for getting to know the differences between the D major and D minor scales.
Level: Level 2
Topics: D Minor & D Major mixture
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Three's a Crowd
Description: A delightful piece based around the D major scale, Three’s a Crowd features lots of lovely triplets, where you have to play three notes in the time of two!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Slurred Triplet Scales
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Skip It
Description: This buoyant, exuberant piece will help you to practise dotted rhythms. That's when the beat is divided into a long dotted note and then a quick skip for the short note!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Dotted Rhythm Scales
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Cheeky Pizzicati
Description: This piece is great for practising Left Hand Pizzicato. Use the 3rd finger of the left hand to pluck the notes that have little crosses on them!
Level: Level 2
Topics: LH Pizzicato in D Harmonic Minor
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Brahms - Symphony No 1
Description: This rousing, noble tune appears in the final movement of Johannes Brahms's landmark 1st Symphony, written in 1876. Play it fast and with vigour!
Level: Level 2
Topics:
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: A Country Jaunt
Description: Take a bracing walk in the country with this piece, A Country Jaunt! The whole piece can be played in 1st position or, for more advanced players, you can experiment with different sounds by coming up with your own fingerings. Keep an eye out for the dynamics and the ‘staccato’ instructions – the short notes and the crescendos and diminuendos help to give this piece lots of energy, so make the most of them!
Level: Level 2
Topics: Staccato on two repeated up bows
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: March of the Lion
Description: Here’s the proud, emphatic theme from the opening movement of the hilarious and ingenious ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by Camille Saint-Saëns. Roooooooooooooar!!
Level: Level 2
Topics:
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Swinging in the Rain
Description: Swing from string to string (smoothly and calmly as opposed to jerkily and wildly!) in this lilting, slightly sorrowful piece in D minor … pathetic, as in ‘pathos’!
Level: Level 1
Topics: 1st to 4th Fingers - slightly harder, D Minor
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Plain Sailin'
Description: Plain Sailin’ should be played as smoothly (legato) as possible, as if sailing in calm, clear waters on a balmy late summer afternoon. Happy sailing!
Level: Level 1
Topics: 1st to 4th Fingers - slightly harder, some accidentals
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Happy Place
Description: Go to your ‘happy place’ (the practice room, of course!) and enjoy this lovely piece for practising the first and second fingers of the left hand. Ah … bliss!
Level: Level 1
Topics: Same finger covering both semitones (accidentals)
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Cat and Mouse
Description: In this high-octane, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse, who will come out on top? Will the pussy cat be outsmarted by the tricksy off-beats of the mouse?!
Level: Level 1
Topics: Introducing A Minor (C naturals) plus OFF BEAT quavers
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Morning Has Broken
Description: Wakey, wakey … rise and shine! Start the day with a rousing rendition of this this lovely traditional Scottish Gaelic tune (and a double espresso!)
Level: Level 1
Topics: Introducing F Major - F naturals etc.
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
Title: Dies Irae
Description: A nice cheery Medieval Latin hymn about the Day of Wrath, dissolving the world in ashes... oh well! Enjoy this wonderfully lugubrious and frequently quoted melody...
Level: Level 1
Topics: Introducing D Minor - F naturals
[wcm_restrict] Click here to download it! [/wcm_restrict] [wcm_nonmember] Join ViolinSchool today for instant access!This download is for ViolinSchool members only! Click here to become a Member of ViolinSchool and get instant access to all library downloads!
[/wcm_nonmember]
