This is a 6 week class designed to teach beginning students how to play the violin. Students will learn the parts of the violin, how to properly hold the instrument, the appropriate methods for producing sounds/pitches, notes/fingerings, and how to play beginning level songs. This will be a very noisy adventure! I encourage students to sign-up for private lessons when group class ends.

Students are expected to have a sized violin on their very first lesson day. 

Students will be taught using resources from the Essential Elements for Strings Violin Book 1 and Suzuki Violin Book 1. This will help students with individual practice and learning notation and violin fingerings. Students will focus mostly on foundational technique and learning a few beginning songs. 

 
Week 1: Parts of the Violin, how to properly hold the violin, and Pizzicato
Week 2: Pizzicato Playing and Violin String Names
Week 3: All About Rhythm: Pizzicato Playing with half, quarter, and eighth notes
Week 4: Left hand position and pressing the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd finger down on the E string. Songs: Walking Song, How Cross Buns, Lightly Row
Week 5: Pressing Fingers down on A string. Song: Twinkle, Twinkle
Week 6: Bow hold and Arco playing.
Week 7: Bowing using half, quarter, and eighth note rhythms. Scale: A Major Scale
Week 8: Bowing: Lightly Row and Twinkle, Twinkle