Current Students – Winter 2025

Parent Handout – Winter 2025

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Note reading flash cards

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violin

Group 1 (A & D strings)

Group 2 (G & E strings)

viola

Group 1 (A & D strings)

Group 2 (G & C strings)

cello

Group 1 (A & D strings)

Group 2 (G & C strings)

bass

Group 1 (D & G strings)

Group 2 (E & A strings)

Note reading help page

Note reading reference page (all instruments)

Music Theory Answer Sheets

Book 2 answers
(coming soon)

Book 3 answers
(coming soon)

Beginner 1

Learning Resources

Video lessons on things we’ve covered in class

Parts of the instrument
Caring for your instrument

For all instruments

How to Care for your Violin, Viola, Cello or Double bass

How NOT To Look After Your Instrument!

Stuff you should not do to a violin, viola or cello

Correct posture/how to hold the instrument
Pizzicato – plucking the string

-When practicing pizzicato, please do it without the bow in your hand.

Left hand position
Holding the bow

For all instruments – parts of the bow

The Parts of a[…]Bow, EXPLAINED

Music

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Beginner music book song pages
Supplemental Songs — more than 25 songs to explore on your own.
Don’t see one you’d like? Contact me to request for it to be added.
Group 1: Using the A & D string, F# and C#

Sheet music:

violin

viola

cello

Song list:

  • Can Can
  • Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
  • Amazing Grace
  • Oh! Suzanna
  • Camptown Races
  • When the Saints Go Marching
  • For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
  • Do You Know the Muffin Man
  • Greensleeves
  • The Wheels on the Bus
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Concerning Hobbits
Group 2: Using low 2, F-natural and C-natural

Sheet music:

violin

viola

cello

Song list:

  • Home on the Range
  • My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
  • Yellow Rose of Texas
  • My Country ‘Tis of Thee
  • We Three Kings
  • If You’re Happy and You Know It
  • Rock-A-Bye, Baby
  • Ashokan Farewell
  • Coming Round the Mountain
  • Bingo
  • Skip to My Lou
  • Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Beauty and the Beast

Beginner 2

Music

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Sheet Music – Winter 2025
Recordings – Winter 2025

Old McDonald

Jesus Loves Me

Mary Lost Her Little Lamb

London Bridge

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Supplemental Songs — more than 25 songs to explore on your own.
Don’t see one you’d like? Contact me to request for it to be added.
Group 1: Using the A & D string, F# and C#

Sheet music:

violin

viola

cello

Song list:

  • Can Can
  • Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
  • Amazing Grace
  • Oh! Suzanna
  • Camptown Races
  • When the Saints Go Marching
  • For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
  • Do You Know the Muffin Man
  • Greensleeves
  • The Wheels on the Bus
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Concerning Hobbits
Group 2: Using low 2, F-natural and C-natural

Sheet music:

violin

viola

cello

Song list:

  • Home on the Range
  • My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
  • Yellow Rose of Texas
  • My Country ‘Tis of Thee
  • We Three Kings
  • If You’re Happy and You Know It
  • Rock-A-Bye, Baby
  • Ashokan Farewell
  • Coming Round the Mountain
  • Bingo
  • Skip to My Lou
  • Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Beauty and the Beast

Novice

Intermediate

Learning Resources

Video lessons on things we’ve covered in class

Music

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Sheet music – Winter 2025
Recordings – Winter 2025

Slavonic Dance No 8

Ave Maria: orchestral vocal

He’s a Pirate – final

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