{"id":295,"date":"2010-07-24T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-07-24T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T09:38:22","slug":"violin-game-for-open-strings-beginner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/violin-game-for-open-strings-beginner\/","title":{"rendered":"Violin Game for Open Strings &#8211; Beginner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another game I play with my beginner violin students. \u00a0It really drills the open strings. I would play this during the second or third lesson after they have been drilled in open string pizzicato.<\/p>\n<p>You will need:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A game board &#8211; click here for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game.pdf\">Can You Name This String Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A set of game cards (G, D, A and E)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game-Cards1.pdf\">Can You Name This String Game Cards<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A set of G, D, A and E flashcards (on the staff) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Open-Strings-Flashcards.pdf\">Open Strings Flashcards<\/a> printed on coloured card stock if you wish.<\/li>\n<li>A small box of smarties\/gummy bears or other small lolly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How to play:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Each student needs a game board in front of them. \u00a0Best played either at a table, or sitting on the floor.<\/li>\n<li>Hold up the game cards at random. \u00a0Student needs to place a lolly on the correct string.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To make the game a little harder and to encourage note recognition, play the game again holding up the flashcards instead of the game cards, or add the flashcards in and hold them all up at random.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-301\" title=\"Can You Name This String Game\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Can-You-Name-This-String-Game1.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another game I play with my beginner violin students. \u00a0It really drills the open strings. I would play this during the second or third lesson after they have been drilled in open string pizzicato. You will need:- A game board &#8211; click here for\u00a0Can You Name This String Game A set of game cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner-violin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}