Up and down we go over the rolling hills. A great little piece for practising lifting and dropping the first finger of the left hand … up and down … up and down … … Click here to download The Miller's Flowers from the ViolinSchool Library!
Up and down we go over the rolling hills. A great little piece for practising lifting and dropping the first finger of the left hand … up and down … up and down … … Click here to download The Miller's Flowers from the ViolinSchool Library!
Up and down we go over the rolling hills. A great little piece for practising lifting and dropping the first finger of the left hand … up and down … up and down … … Click here to download Rolling Hills from the ViolinSchool Library!
Is it a Bird? ... Is it a Plane? ... No! ...It’s a Jumping Jelly Bean! Jump across the strings very rapidly indeed ... with single, double, & triple string crossings! Click here to download Jumping Jelly Beans from the ViolinSchool Library!
A delicious, nutritious piece for newbies. Choose which string is peanut butter and which one is jelly! Cross strings smoothly for a succulent, gelatinous combo! Click here to download Peanut Butter and Jelly from the ViolinSchool Library!
Time is of the essence! Keep a steady pulse as you practise your pizzicato (plucking). Try it first with a real metronome, then use your ‘inner metronome’ to stay in time! Click here to download Tick-Tock, Tock-Tick from the ViolinSchool Library!
Hello everyone! Here are two Christmas treats for you! Christmas Carols We've updated some of our favourite Christmas Carols for you to download and play at Christmas time! Need the lyrics so your friends can sing along whilst you play? Click here: https://www.violinschool.com/carols/ 'Christmas Party' - Live Video And here's a Christmas video […]
Hi everyone! Our CHRISTMAS LIVESTREAM with the Violin Orchestra is now taking place in London! Join us here on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/violinschool/ Here's the programme:
We’re dotty about this lovely piece for beginners! It's full of delightful dotted rhythms and smooth, slurred string crossings, gently swaying from bar to bar ... Click here to download Polka Dot, Polka Dot from the ViolinSchool Library!
What goes up must come down! Aim for fluid, graceful arm motions and land the bow smoothly onto the string. Make nice big circles with your arm during the rests! Click here to download Ups and Downs from the ViolinSchool Library!
Um cha cha … Um cha cha … Join us for a waltz, a delightful dance in triple time … try to feel the pattern of three beats - strong-weak-weak - in each bar … Um cha cha! Click here to download Time for a Waltz from the ViolinSchool Library!
Practise your counting and subdividing (cutting the cake!) and make sure you’re being fair! Each bar has 3 beats, so that’s three equal slices of cake! Mm … mmm! Click here to download Cutting the Cake from the ViolinSchool Library!
Ooh! … Ow! … Oh! … Ouch! … Oof! … Owwww! Not for the faint-hearted … see if you can make it to the end of each line, dancing along the scorching hot stave! Click here to download Firewalk from the ViolinSchool Library!
Ready ... Steady ... Gooooooooooo!!! These fun rhythms will keep you busy while you wait for the green light! Try clapping them first, then play with the bow. Click here to download Traffic Lights from the ViolinSchool Library!
This great beginner piece features open string notes and rests (the silences in between). Practice your halves (minims), quarters (crotchets), and eighths (quavers)... as both notes and rests! Try it in 4/4 and then, twice as fast, in 2/4! Open-and-shut ... case closed!! Click here to download Open-and-Shut from the ViolinSchool Library!
Merry-Go-Round could be the tune for an actual carousel! Like the music that blares out from old-fashioned fairground rides, this melody is a happy, upbeat melody, that repeats around and around. Imagine the horses bobbing up and down on the Merry-Go-Round itself, as the rising quarter notes (crotchets) and the falling eighth notes (quavers) imitate […]
New sheet music today: the famous nursery rhyme, Old MacDonald! Old Macdonald had a farm, and on that farm he had some accents, a crescendo, a forte, a fortissimo, and lots of lovely notes in the key of G major! If you're new to music note reading but you know the tune to Old MacDonald Had […]
Hi everyone! Autumn is in full swing, and here at ViolinSchool we've been busy beavering away behind the scenes, making preparations for three BIG ViolinSchool projects, which we're about to unwrap... The new, expanded Digital Library (already a VS member? Take a sneak preview here!) More Online Courses taking you right through Level 1 of […]
We've made it to 350 - yes, 350 WORKOUTS!!!!!!! So... we went away for the weekend and accidentally left our 5 Minute Workout Generator (David) switched on... we came back on Monday morning, and there were 350 workouts waiting for us! We're becoming addicted to practising the workouts here at ViolinSchool HQ, and by the […]
Let's get warmed up! In this new video series, Setareh Mood will be taking you through a whole program of useful body exercises, that will get your muscles and joints warmed up and ready to play. Follow along with the first video, as we open up the chest and stretch the arms. We'll help you get […]
Summer is in full swing, and there's plenty going on at the London branch of ViolinSchool! Check out this new video from Simon to hear all about our new Violin Ensemble Sessions in London, as well as One to One Lessons and our popular Beginner Violin Class. And don't forget the biscuits!
Hi Everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you're having a great summer! Here at ViolinSchool HQ, we're pushing forward with our video production, and rolling out the long-awaited Learning Guide which will soon be available to all our members. Every week we'll now be releasing new video tutorials. Core content will be published in the […]
These incredibly useful new left hand exercises will help you to get really familiar with the placing of your fingers in the first four positions.
ViolinSchool's Variations on the popular Carnival of Venice tune are full of devilish trickery and highly virtuosic violinistic hijinks! Enjoy! 🙂
We did it! We made it to 100! Our 5 Minute Workout Generator (aka David) has been working hard to reach our target of 365, a workout for every day of the year! Enjoy the latest 20 workouts - Nos. 81 - 100.[wcm_nonmember] Remember that if you're not yet a member of ViolinSchool, you'll need […]
We’ve written a majorly melancholy melody called Lament in D minor, and it’s really really really sad! Give it a go … and try not to get the violin wet! ?
