MUSIC: YOUR FIRST VIOLIN - a booklet for beginning violin students

YOUR FIRST VIOLIN! A booklet for beginning violin students

This booklet is meant to fill in a gap I have noticed with many students – knowledge of the pitch names on the fingerboard and on the music staff. Often students play by rote or from fingering only and are not able to identify the notes they are playing on the music staff or on the fingerboard. Hopefully these big flash cards and worksheets will provide a visual and tactile “map” and demonstrate how understanding the staff and fingerboard will result in better intonation. The sheets on major and minor scales show the solfa “grid” which can be used very successfully in understanding the construction of a scale. I have purposely used large print to facilitate younger students who are just beginning to read music notation. I suggest printing pages 1, 2, 4, 6-9, 21, 23 on cardstock to be used as references when the students are first learning the treble clef notes. The pages with coloured notes on the staff and ledger lines can be used as quizzes (name the orange note, point to the note that is played with 2nd finger etc.) Later students can draw lines to the correct note on their own copies. CONTENTS: p1. All notes in 1st position * – use as reference p2. Notes & fingering on staff * p3. Large coloured notes & fingering on staff to use as quiz and for worksheet (draw lines to connect notes and fingering) p4. Ledger line notes above and below staff* - use as reference p5. Ledger lines coloured notes & fingering above and below staff to use as quiz and for worksheet (draw lines connecting notes and fingering) p6. E string notes – fingering, notes on staff and note names – for reference, later with worksheet on p10 p7. A string notes – fingering, notes on staff and note names – for reference, later with worksheet on p10 p8. D string notes – fingering, notes on staff and note names – for reference, later with worksheet on p10 p9. G string notes – fingering, notes on staff and note names – for reference, later with worksheet on p10 p10. Worksheet – fill in fingering, note name and note on staff p11. Card Games instructions p12-17. A,D,E & G string cards on fingerboard, on staff and note name* p18. Blank scale and solfa worksheet – use for all major scales with notes in the staff p19. Blank scale and solfa worksheet – use for all major scales with notes above the staff p20. Blank scale and solfa worksheet – use for all major scales with notes below the staff p21. Scale of C Major – example sheet - solfa, note names, fingering and on staff p22. Blank scale and solfa worksheet – use for minor melodic ascending and descending scales p23. Scale of A melodic minor – example sheet - solfa, note names, fingering & on staff

* print on cardstock and cut out Use with students individually, in pairs or groups. Duration: about 1/2 hour

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