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Beth's Video Responses

Beth's Video Responses to Members' Submissions

Introduction

This department features links to Beth's video answers to members' submissions. The link in the title takes you lot to the original community post to allow you lot to run into the response in context. If you are non interested in the whole thread but would rather come across the video directly, click on [Video simply].
Video responses are listed according to the main topic(s) covered in the response. At the bottom of this department in that location is also a list of the repertoire addressed in the responses.

While most data in the Resource section is provided equally a service to the public, this department is only available to Violin Lab subscribers.

Bow Arm / Right Hand

Bowing Techniques

Tone Production

Phrasing / Dynamics

Left Manus

Intonation

Vibrato

Double Stops

Shifting

Sightreading / Rhythm / Timing

Aspects of Violin Setup

Miscellaneous Topics

Repertoire

Workshop Master Classes

Products, Accessories, and Violin Maintenance

Strings

Shoulder Rests

Bon Musica 4/four Violin Shoulder Residual

This is the shoulder remainder I used before switching to the Acoustagrip. This is an excellent shoulder pad every bit it is highly flexible and alleviates cervix tension as it's curved blueprint hangs onto the shoulder.

Chinrests

SAS Chinrests

These chinrests come up in dissimilar heights and the angle is adjustable. I use the 32mm with a depression shoulder pad. These chin rests are ideal for those with long necks and/or shorter jaws.

Fingerboard Tapes

Rosin

Stand Light

Aria D1 Diva Music Stand Lite

This is the light I have on my music stands at home. It'due south pricey but you'll never accept to modify the bulbs. It has the best coverage too.

Violin Buying Information

Recommended Supplemental Books

Beginning Method Books

The O'Connor Violin Method, Bk 1: Book & CD

Based on the classical tradition of violin pedagogy, Mark O'Connor recently published a Violin Method that draws on the American folk music tradition to appoint and motivate the young student.

Mastery for Strings: Level 2

This two volume work was written past two of Violin Lab's most distinguished contributors: Laurie Scott and Bill Dick.

Beginning Etude Books

Superstudies for Violin, Bk 1 (Faber Edition: Superstudies)

Mary Cohen is one of Uk's nigh famous pedagogues and I've always been a huge fan. Her technique studies books are full of "fun" tunes with a clear pedagogical intent. I use this serial of books as supplemental cloth to the Suzuki series.

Beginning Scale Books

Mel Bay Progressive Scale Studies for Violin

There are tons of scale books, and most of them are organized in the aforementioned manner, which for the first student is overwhelming. This volume is preparation for the Carl Flesch scale system and presents scales in a more progressive manner.

Beginning Literature Books

Etudes for all Levels

Intermediate Method Books

Intermediate Etude Books

12 Etude-Caprices in the Styles of the Peachy Composers

Most �tudes exist to accost a single technical issue. Rarely is that technical issue "mode". These fabled �tudes by Amy Barlowe are a survey of the way periods of the last 300 years, thereby addressing ALL the techniques we are required to learn equally violinists to play any slice of music. And they're lovely plenty to use equally recital pieces likewise!
See also http://world wide web.amybarlowe.com for more information.

Intermediate Technique Books

Advanced Technique Books

Graded Repertoire Collections

Fiddle Books

Note Names and Placement on Fingerboard

Fingerboard Geography for Violin, Vol. 1

I highly recommend this book. I discovered this books some time ago, but recently took another await. Information technology's fantastic for learning what and where the notes are on the violin, also as for edifice intonation and left manus technique. There are likewise preparatory left paw exercises for the Suzuki songs.

Scales

Shifting Studies

Sight Reading Basics

Websites

Simon Fischer Online

Yous can gild Simon Fischer products directly from his website now, although for Usa citizens it will exist cheaper to order the "Basics" and "Do" from Amazon. Fischer'southward website has books and a DVD that can not be found on Amazon.

Sheet Music for Download

General

Websites for Sheet Music Download

IMSLP-Petrucci Library

This is an astonishing resources for out-of-print sheet music. Information technology is a treasure trove of old scores. I accept found several pieces from here for our Bizarre concerts. The site is a bit difficult to navigate, simply just become digging.

scribd.com

This is a subscription website for reading materials which has a decent collection of former violin sheet music for download.

Lamentable Romance

This is a transcription of the violin part from the Youtube video titled Deplorable Romance. I put in fingerings for adding lots of "Romantic" style shifts.

Hither is the score with a uncomplicated pianoforte arrangement.

This version has fingering that are mostly in 1st position.

Red, Carmine Rose

Schindler's Listing

Schindler's List with fingerings

The score with fingerings for Schindler's List is bachelor for members merely. Join and go to this page once again.

Minuet from Fifty'�cole D'Orph�e

Attached is the organization, and the link is to the original on MSLP

Meditation from Tha�s

Other Sheet Music

For both full and accessory tracks email me at violinlab@gmail.com.

Shared past Members

A Song for All Seasons

Transcribed by J.David MacDonald

Christmas Carols

Accompaniments and Audio Files

Full general

Websites for Piano Accompaniments

Piano Accompaniments for Violin Solos

I love this website. The owner Paul Gardner has fabricated accompaniments to much of the standard student repertoire for violin. The listing is quite extensive and his playing is wonderful. Non midi!!

Accompany - Wonderful Piano Accompaniments Website

This is an amazing service. All of my private students are now subscribers. Runs on Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. It features many educatee pieces, scales, drones, etudes, as well as concertos, sonatas, etc.

Accompany - Suzuki Version

Steven Maloney at present has accompaniments for all the Suzuki pieces. Like on the general Accompany site y'all can tiresome down the accompaniment or loop sections.

Repertoire (various)

Dowani

This visitor makes books and practice CDs for scales and violin literature. The Cds feature slower do tempos and existent orchestral dorsum up tracks.

Accompaniments for Suzuki Songs

Fiddle Tunes

Old Time Jam

Large repository of fill-in tracks for fiddle tunes.

Christmas Carols - Audio

Accompaniment for Scales

Drones

Good Reads

General

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why Yous Should Intendance)

What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"�the equal partition of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon exist able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven actually meant when he called B small-scale 'black'"

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It'southward Grown. Here's How.

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock information technology? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople�and anybody else�with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

The Violin Explained: Components, Mechanism, and Sound

This unique book explains not only how a violin produces audio just also of how that sound causes what we hear. Drawing on extensive experience as a performer and composer, Beament includes down-to-world advice on strings, maintenance, purchase, and children's instruments.

Violin Dreams

Arnold Steinhardt, for more than 40 years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly cute instrument.

All You Accept To Do Is Mind: Music From Inside Out

Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more than in great music for most twenty years with his What Makes It Dandy? series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the The states and Canada. In this book, he gives yous a set of tools you tin can use when listening to any piece of music in club to hear its �plot��its story told in notes.

Education Violin

Software and Apps

Full general

Video Surgeon (Mac, Windows)

A program which lets you clarify videos (zoom in, slow downwardly, loop sections, etc.) to really see what is going on in a performance.

Introduction

This section features software and apps yous can download and install on your estimator and/or smartphone/tablet for offline use.
Likewise check out the section "Accompaniments and Audio Files" for links to boosted online resources.

Sight Reading Apps

Sight Reading Mill (iOS)

This is a web based app that generates sight reading sheets according to parameters you set for it. The pricing is reasonable: 34.99/year

String Quartet SightRead Tutor (Android)

This neat little app helps y'all memorize where notes are located on your fingerboard. Information technology features a quiz manner where you encounter a annotation and have to indicate its position on the fingerboard. It also includes an ear training mode where they play a note to you and y'all have to locate it on the fingerboard.

Metronome Apps

Tuners / Intonation

Tiresome Downwardly Music (without altering pitch)

Music Theory and Note Reading

General

Introduction

In this section you will discover tools and resources related to music theory, note reading, and rhythm preparation.

Tips relating to the Fingerboard y'all will find in the section "Violin Practice".

Music Theory

Musical-U.com

A website to develop full general music skills; ear preparation.

Picardy

This website was adult by a grouping of composers and theory majors from University of Texas. The subscription price is reasonable and I sampled some of the games and quizzes and they are first-class.

Openstax

At that place is a department on music with several articles on music fundamentals.

Sight Reading

Rhythm Report Aids

A Rhythm a Week

This is one of the rhythm preparation books I grew upward with every bit a kid. Excellent for developing fluid rhythmic skills.

Charts and Worksheets

Scale Structure Cheat Canvas

Make your own moveable chart to easily look upwardly mayor or small-scale scales. The charts work for mayor and pocket-size keys upward to v flats or sharps.

Syllabi for Violin Lab Lessons; Practice Helps

Advancement

Practice Sheets

Violin and Health

Violin Setup

Violinist In Balance website

This website offers the stories and findings of a year-long exploration of the violinist'southward residuum. In that location is useful information about holding the violin and preventing pain and discomfort.

Exercises

Hand Dexterity Exercises

Greg Erwin has a Youtube Channel devoted to Hand exercises. These would be perfect for string players.

Violin Exercise and Performance

General

Introduction

In this section y'all volition find links and tools to assist you lot during your practice time and in performing.
The practice tools are grouped in the following sections:
* Warm-up exercises
* Scales and scale practice
* Tips related to the fingerboard
* Shifting
* Bowing
* Charts that take to do with these topics

Playing with Others; Performing

Playing Chamber Music

ACMP � Associated Chamber Music Players � is a non-profit organization that facilitates the playing of chamber music for pleasure by people of all ages and nationalities, from beginners to professionals.

Warm-Upward

Scale Practice

ScalesAce - Online Practise Tool for Scales

ScalesAce is designed to complement the many resources already available to violin students preparing for their ABRSM applied exams. It provides a useful reference to assistance confirm fingerings, finger spacings and tuning whilst students are practising on their own.

Printable Scales and Arpeggios

This websites offers PDF files for 1-, 2- and 3-octave scales in different keys. The PDF file contains the calibration (with indication for shifting), arpeggios, and broken thirds.

Getting to Know the Fingerboard

Fingerboard Workbook Series

These workbooks are developed by Diane Allen, an expert contributor on Violin Lab.
They are first-class for learning fingerboard geography. And they are designed to help not but beginning players, but any violinist acquire where the notes are (all of them in any position!) on the violin.

Shifting Practice

This is my favorite shifting written report to exercise the movements needed for large shifts into loftier positions.

Bowing

These exercises volition keep you busy with string crossings..and will help build rhythmic prowess as well!

This is an exercise I made to gently go from repeated note sautill� to single notation sautill�.

In this handout, I've outlined most of the conventions violinists adhere to when marker bowings on their music.

Charts to assist you in your violin practice

Shaded notes D, A, East, B testify the pitch where the next college cord begins and indicates the stop of first position.

This chart shows all the pitches likewise equally the position of your tapes. This might make the overview of the fingerboard more comprehendible for those of you who use tapes.

This video is a demo on how to use this chart.

This is a beautifully designed chart by Elke to follow forth with the video on Kinesthetic Intonation. Be sure to print on card stock and use the sliding pitch line for maximum benefit.

Stephen Neff designed the following charts to help memorize the note names for each string. Print, laminate and study!

Violin Related Websites

Instructional Videos

CelloDiscovery.com

I am so thrilled to share the new cello learning platform by a close friend and colleague Carolyn Hagler. In the spirit of Violin Lab, Carolyn has created a detailed curriculum for successful learning. She is a fantastic cellist and teacher. If you were ever thinking of calculation cello playing to your bucket listing, this is the place to go.

General

Music and Psychology

Listen to highly interesting lectures by one of our Academy of Texas professors in Psychology, who is also a violist.

TeachSuzuki.blogspot.com

Many of you have watched Paula Bird's interviews with Violin Lab. This is her blog filled with wonderful practise advice and insights into teaching and playing the violin.

Introduction

Here is what you lot will find in this department:
* a collection of links to violin related websites covering a number of topics
* links to sites which give groundwork information on the violin and on sound in full general
* links to inspirational violin performances (both classical and pop/dabble fashion)

Training the Musical Brain

Here is a neat weblog written by Tara Gaertner, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, pedagogy Neuroanatomy in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.

TakeLessons.com

If y'all are looking for a local teacher this site can help you (U.s.a.).

Classical Connect

Classical Connect provides independent musicians with a new venue for their performances. Hundreds of classical musicians have taken advantage of this opportunity, sharing their music with listeners across the world.

Bullet Proof Musician

Check out this website for brilliant discussions on operation anxiety and practicing.

The Violin Channel

The goal of this site is to promote young artists and to be a source of news, video tutorials and inspiration for professional and amateur string players.

Groundwork Information on the Violin and on the Physics of Audio

Violin Physics Data

A podcast which investigates the physics of the violin in a conversation with Jim Woodhouse of Cambridge University. They discuss the way the bow interacts with the strings, the different vibration modes of the body and how they influence the sound and the playability of the violin besides as how scientific methods (can) assist with understanding existing and creating new violins.

Creative and Inspirational Violin Performances - Pop/Dabble

Artistic and Inspirational Violin Performances - Classically Rooted

Improve Your Sight Reading Violin Paul Harris Pdf Download

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