Learning Focus Practice Tutorial Weight in Motion Gravity Leverage Balance Potential /Kinetic Energy The R’s of Remembering Practice Purpose Music Staff Evolution Music Clef Origins Scroll History Peg Information Bowed String Instrument History Friction Bass Tuning Mechanism Modern-Day Violin Family Bridges Through the Ages Sound Production Principles What is Sound? How Strings Produce Sound
Meet Cal Universal Language Rhythm Notation Music Staff Origins of the Staff Rhythm Laboratory Notation Parts Note Heads Stems Beams Flags Note Construction Common-Time Measures Bar-Lines Counting in Common-Time Whole, Half/Quarter Notes Ties Dots Time-Signatures Q’s Rhythm Review Time-Signature Rules Beat Accent Down-Beat and Up-Beat Conducting Patterns Cut-Time Common-Time Beat Emphasis Three-Beat Measures Note Values Rhythm Workouts The ‘Cycle’ Note Equivalents Counting Sub-Division “If You Can Say It, You Can Play It” Author’s Story Sub-Division Lingo Quarter Notes with Eighth Notes Adding Sixteenth Notes Notes Sharing Beams Beam Awareness Triplets Triplet Workout Compound-Time Compound-Time Workout Music Rests Rest and Note Equivalents Whole Rest Half Rest Quarter Rest Eighth Rest Sixteenth Rest Dotted Rests Q’s Rest Review Process of Sub-Division Relating Rests to Notes Rhythm Exam
Leverage Step Exercise Crossing Guard Exercise Grounding Your Roots Exercise Balancing Your Branches Exercise Violin Playing-Position Viola Playing-Position Cello Playing-Position Bass Playing-Position Chin-Rest Info Shoulder-Rest Info End-Pin Info Rock-Stop Info Violin Position Song Viola Position Song Cello Position Song Bass Position Song Warp to Playing-Position Exam Warp to Pizzicato Worlds
Introducing the Bow Parts of the Bow The Stick Horse-Hair The Tip The Frog The Winding How the Bow Works Rosin Preparing to Hold the Bow Stick Training Exercises Bowing Terminology Down-Bow Up-Bow Bow-Hand Set-Up Finger Tasks and Functions The Thumb Meet ARC Finger Segments The Index-Finger Bow-Hand Pronation The Center-Finger and Ring-Finger Bow-Hand Fulcrum Ring-Finger Propulsion Bass Bows Pinkie Bow-Tasks ‘Casting’ the Bow-Hand Bow-Wrist Tasks Rotational Inertia Arco Clay Smile Exercise Meet ANGLE The Bow-Arm Box The Shoulder Arc Bow Contact-Point String Lanes Bow-Segment Mastery Bowing Exercises Finding the Bow Contact-Point “Painting With Sound” Bowing Exercises Menu Bow Taps Bowing Traditions Perform Down-Bows Perform Up-Bows Art of Bow-Change Articulations Staccato Legato Mastery Checkpoint One Building Bow Control Bow Speed and Bow-Arm Motion Bow Planning and Distribution Slow Moving Bow Strokes Individual Bow Segments Traveling the Bow Bowing Dynamics Mastery Checkpoint Two Advanced Techniques Slurs and Articulations Slur Training Locating the Bow’s Balance Point Ricochet and Spiccato Exploring Ricochet Ricochet Control Spiccato Training Spiccato Control Brush Strokes Multiple String Crossings Virtuosic Bow Strokes Arpeggio Bowing “Flying” Staccato Mastery Checkpoint Three SCROLL’s List of Bow Strokes
D Major Home Instrument Tapes Finger Mechanics Finger Numbering Finger Dexterity Finger Position Finger Intensity Hand Position Principles Hand Position Rhymes Space at the Base Swell the Well Swing the Wing Hand Position Set-Up Violin Notes on D Viola Notes on D Cello Notes on D Bass Notes on D Violin Notes on A Viola Notes on A Cello Notes on A Meet Guide Bass Notes on G D Major Exercises The Lower-Tetrachord The Major Second The Major Third The Perfect Fourth The Upper-Tetrachord The Perfect Fifth The Major Sixth The Major Seventh The Perfect Octave The Complete D Major Scale Left Thumb Logic Left Thumb Location Knuckle Leverage D Major Etudes Arpeggio Patterns D Major Mastery Checkpoint Extending the Instrument’s Range Finger Location Terms Violin Notes on G Viola Notes on G Cello Notes on G Bass Notes on E Bass Notes on A Viola Notes on C Cello Notes on C Violin Notes on E Third Position Principles Violin Third Position on E Third Position D Major Harmony Interval Categories Orchestra Harmony in D Preparing for Orchestra Pieces Divisi Protocol Orchestra Chord Textures Ensemble Engine Technique Building Practice Coins Violin Technique Builder Viola Technique Builder Cello Technique Builder Bass Technique Builder Dynamic March Theme and Variations Bowing Dynamics Dynamic March Performance Details Linked Bowing Exercise Off-Beats Exercise Neighbor Notes Complete Dynamic March Composition Score and Parts
G Major Home Violin Two Octave Scale in 1st Position Viola Pitches in 1st Position Cello Pitches in 1st Position Bass Pitches in 1st Position Violin and Viola Left Pinkie Options Pinkie Power-Ups for Violin and Viola Violin G Major Scale in 3rd Position Viola G Major Scale in 3rd Position Cello 4th Position on the A-String Bass One Octave G Major Scale on 1 String Two Octave G Major Scale for All Instruments Boosting Performance Skills “Add-a-Note” Scale Pattern Exercise “Eighth Note Jumps” Interval Leap Practice Up and Back-Up Practice Technique Coordination Drills Melodic Minuet G Major Waltz
A Minor Home Natural Minor Aeolian Mode The Three Forms of the Minor Scale Raising the 7th Step Harmonic Minor Augmented Intervals Melodic Minor Minor Key Signatures Relative Major and Relative Minor Relative Major and Minor Keys Preparing for A Minor Scale Drills Rules of Accidentals Violin Fingerboard Diagram Viola Fingerboard Diagram Cello Fingerboard Diagram Bass Fingerboard Diagram A Minor Scale Pattern Drills La Cinquantaine
String Orchestra Pieces in C Major Theme from Brahms Symphony #1 Pick-Up Beats Romantic Period Style Repeat Wings Beat Ictus Ties Across the Bar-Line Dolce Shifting Brahms Score and Parts Syncopation Syncopation Song Lyrics Accents Syncopation Sub-Division Syncopation Score and Parts Mozart Divertimento in C Major D.C. al Fine Fermata Instructions Subito Piano Divertimento Score and Parts