Intermediate
Violin Students

 

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Description of Intermediate Level...
for players in their third year of experience and beyond
keys include four sharps through four flats
first through 3rd position with limited used of fifth and harmonics
bowing styles include detache, martele, staccatto, slurs and pizzacato and double stops

Please provide your child with a  three ring binder (one inch wide)  with an additional zipper pocket inside to bring to their first and each subsequent lesson.  Every week your child will be given a music assignment, sheet music, and flash cards to add to this notebook. Elements of these notebooks on this level will also include:

*   drawings of how certain pieces make the student feel
*   music iconography, e.g., notes, rests, clefs, staves, dynamics markings, articulations
*   drawings of the sections of the orchestra
*   conducting patterns
*   drawings of instruments
*   numbers concepts as they relate to music
*   music history Timetable
*   drawings of composers


Each phase of the music program normally takes 9-12 months to complete.  Some students will spend a year while others will work for two years depending on his/her learning style, abilities, and home schedule.



INTERMEDIATE  BOOKS
-for players in their third year of experience and beyond (see introductory page for detail)
Technique: String Builder Vol 3-4; Wohlfhart Vol. 2,  Melodious Double Stops Vol 1,  Preparing for Kreutzer,  scales in first through fifth positions, etc.
Classical: Suzuki Vol. 1-3, Fun with Solos, Building Technique with Beautiful Music Vol 3-4, Solos Pieces for the Intermediate Violinist, Solos for the Intermediate Violinist, etc.
Duet & Ensemble:  Hymns of Peace, Christmas Favorites (Hal Leonard), A Fiddling Christmas, Christmas Trio (Kjos),  25 Beautiful International Christmas Carols Book 3
Holiday Repertoire: Christmas Kaleidoscope II, Christams Melodies (positon), Manheim Steamroller: Solo Christmas Music for Violin,  Christmas Pops
Sacred: Sacred Hymns for Violin (Melbay),  The Sacred Violinist, 20 Sacred  & Spiritual Solos, violin hymn arrangements by Latham Publishers




LINKS
Violin Care http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/maintenance.html
Scales http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/scales2.html
GraceNotes  http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/gracenotes.html
Metronome Beats  http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/metronome.html
Vibrato http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/vibrato.html
Harmonics http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/harmonics.html
Tone Color http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/stern.html
Auditioning http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/audition.html

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