Current Students – Winter 2025
Note reading flash cards
-print double sided, flip on the long edge
Note reading help page
Note reading reference page (all instruments)
Music Theory Answer Sheets
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
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
Violin/Viola
Violin Bow Hold SIMPLIFIED | Beginner Basics
How to Hold the Violin Bow with the Bunny Method | Easy Beginner Technique | Violin Tutorial
Bass
(German) German Bow Hold
(German) Correct grip of German style Double Bass Bow
(French) Bass: Bow Hold
(French) Orchestra Tutor: Double Bass – French Bow Hold (Dr. Jessica Valls)
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#
Group 2: Using low 2, F-natural and C-natural
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
Learning Resources
Video lessons on things we’ve covered in class:
Improving your bow technique
low second finger
C Major Scale
Music
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Sheet Music – Winter 2025
Violin
Viola
Cello
Recordings – Winter 2025
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#
Group 2: Using low 2, F-natural and C-natural
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
Learning Resources
Video lessons on things we’ve covered in class:
Improving your bow technique
low second finger
C Major Scale
Music
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Sheet music – Winter 2025
Recordings – Winter 2025
Intermediate
Learning Resources
Video lessons on things we’ve covered in class
Vibrato
Shifting
Sight Reading
Music
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Sheet music – Winter 2025
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