{"id":2801,"date":"2017-03-22T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:48:11","slug":"violin-ensemble-string-group-scale-warm-ups-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/violin-ensemble-string-group-scale-warm-ups-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Violin Ensemble\/ String Group Scale Warm ups and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8216;String Group&#8217; (violin ensemble) started back up this month.\u00a0 As I have many beginners, I decided the repertoire had to be really simple.\u00a0 We concentrated on listening to each other, and playing in tune.<\/p>\n<p>After spending 5 mins tuning everyone up, we started.<\/p>\n<p>Our first song:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/G-Major-Scale-simple.pdf\">G Major Scale simple<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to play open strings can do so.\u00a0 Everyone else plays the scale on top.<\/p>\n<p>Variations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ask what people are having for dinner.\u00a0 Play to that rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Play as a round, eliminating the second G top note.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our second song:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/D-Major-Scale-and-rhythms.pdf\">D Major Scale and rhythms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructions on variations are written on the music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our third song:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Copy-Me-open-strings-and-1st-finger.pdf\">Copy Me open strings and 1st finger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, a very simple song using open G and D, and the first fingers on those strings.\u00a0 I had some students reading the notes as &#8220;G or D&#8221;, and others reading them as &#8220;Do or So&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We finished with The Irish Washerwoman (type that in the search bar on my blog, and it will come up).<\/p>\n<p>It was an awesome no stress night for my beginner students.\u00a0 Very simple, no-one got embarrassed, and everyone was pretty much in tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8216;String Group&#8217; (violin ensemble) started back up this month.\u00a0 As I have many beginners, I decided the repertoire had to be really simple.\u00a0 We concentrated on listening to each other, and playing in tune. After spending 5 mins tuning everyone up, we started. Our first song: G Major Scale simple Those who wish to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,25,31],"tags":[49,56,113,125,134,137,138,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}