{"id":1451,"date":"2013-06-26T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:12:13","slug":"string-group-sight-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/string-group-sight-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"String Group Sight Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been surprising the students in my String Group with sight reading each Friday that they&#8217;re here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not particularly\u00a0difficult sight reading, but does have some techniques that they may have just learned in their lessons (for the second grade students anyway), or it&#8217;s good revision for the higher grade students.\u00a0 We only have an hour for our String Group, so I try and make their sight reading pretty sounding but fairly basic so they can concentrate on their intonation and getting &#8216;together&#8217; with the other members of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some sight reading pieces I wrote out for them:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Scale-Fun-for-Four-June-2013.pdf\">Scale Fun for Four June 2013<\/a>\u00a0(a quartet, or two violinists per part if you have enough students).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SERENE-SOUNDS.pdf\">SERENE SOUNDS<\/a>\u00a0(a really pretty, relaxing song with lots of tremolo revision)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Friday-Fun-Round.pdf\">Friday Fun Round<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our first String Group get together, I did my arrangement of the Irish Washerwoman trio (found in this post here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/2011\/01\/21\/holiday-music-camp-beginner-and-first-grade-violin-1-hour\/\">http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/2011\/01\/21\/holiday-music-camp-beginner-and-first-grade-violin-1-hour\/<\/a>) which they all enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been surprising the students in my String Group with sight reading each Friday that they&#8217;re here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not particularly\u00a0difficult sight reading, but does have some techniques that they may have just learned in their lessons (for the second grade students anyway), or it&#8217;s good revision for the higher grade students.\u00a0 We only have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}