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Volume
Five
SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS IN THE STRING CLASSROOM with Brenda Brenner
INDEX
Introduction
Preparation for Playing in the Classroom
- Proper Instrument Sizing
- Chairs
- Fingernails
- Playable Instrument Condition
Setting the Proper Position
- Body Positioning
- Specific Cello Positioning Exercises
- Specific Double Bass Positioning Exercises
- High Dot
- Magic X
Starting to Play
- Rest Position
- Violin and Viola
- Cello and Double Bass
- Tapping in Rest Position
- Sliding
- Statue of Liberty for Violin and Viola
- Checking Violin and Viola Instrument Stability
The First Pieces
- Basic Music Theory Skills
- Ants Song
- CDC-GDG-DAD-AEA
Preparing the Bow Position
- Bow Set-Up
- Shoulder Bowing with Kodaly Rhythms
- Twinkle Rhythms
Instrument and Bow Together
- DAD with the Bow
- Pizzicato CDC-GDG-DAD-AEA and DAD with the Bow
Putting It All Together: Instrument - Bow - Fingers
- See-Saw – The First Piece with the Instrument, Bow and Fingers
- Twinkle Rhythms on the Open Strings
- Twinkle Rhythms with Fingers – The D Major Scale
- Twinkle
Steps to Learning a New Piece
Special thanks to Susan Moses
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