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Violin Flash Cards – First Finger notes
My open string flash cards were such a huge hit with my beginner students, so I am slowly plowing my way through doing the other ones. Here are my First Finger Notes Flash Cards. You can use them in the following ways:- As Memory/Concentration Play snap with them Print out two copies and lay one…
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Fishy Rhythm and Note Flashcards
Susan Paradis created these delightful Fish Flashcards a little while ago to help students remember the values of notes. They’re easy to use; print a set out, cut and laminate them. Here are the different ways I use them:- You can use both sets as ‘normal’ flashcards Use just the notes for the student to tell…
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Giant remote control
Just for something different, I quickly did up a giant remote control (a cardboard box, covered with brown paper and this Remote Control stuck on it) to resemble a giant remote control. I’m going to exaggerate my movements in my next singing time by pressing a button and calling it out. Really overdo this – they…
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Violin Open Strings Match Up Game
My younger violin students are reading notes! It is exciting stuff, but as we learn new things (slowly does it), I like to keep revising what we have learned to keep it in their heads before we move on to harder things. (Did I mention they are very clever little peoples?) Here’s a game they…
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Scales My Way
I have half my students doing AMEB Examinations at the moment and some preparing for other things. Either way, they are all learning scales. Those doing AMEB examinations need to learn scales with the correct rhythm/bowing (for the time being) however those that aren’t doing exams are free! 😀 I whipped up this chart for…
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Head, Shoulders, Knees and…SURPRISE!
I have sung this with my 4-5 year old students, and they love it. It’s great for when they’re getting just a little bit restless, their arms are getting sore and we just need to do an action song. I whip this one out (he is usually all set up ready to go anyway), then…
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Recognising High and Low
This is a great game for little peoples. I am going to play it today with my young violin students. I am going to show them a picture and they have to tell me whether it is “high” or “low” Then we will play a high or a low sound on our violins. It’s a…
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Musical Snakes and Ladders
I was looking up some school teacher resources for my daughter, to assist her with her spelling when I came across this great game. The thought occurred to me that you could use Opus text and insert musical notes, signs and terms instead of spelling words (which I did). You could even have two octaves…
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Christmas Match-Up
I created some giant cards with well known Christmas songs on them, using only the first 4 bars of each song. You could print them out on coloured paper to make them more ‘Christmassy’ – one colour for the songs and a different one for the song titles. There are a few different ways to play with these cards:-…
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10 ways to make violin scales interesting
I really enjoyed the masterclass Abe Cytrynowski gave at the Winter Piano Seminar I attended (see link here: Abe’s Masterclass) because I could go home and apply his piano approach to scales to the violin. Here are some ways we can incorporate some fun into our students’ scale learning. I’m presuming by this point that…
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