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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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