{"id":352,"date":"2010-08-13T22:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-08-13T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:48:21","slug":"kitten-on-the-fingerboard-violin-third-position-shifting-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/kitten-on-the-fingerboard-violin-third-position-shifting-song\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kitten on the Fingerboard&#8217; &#8211; violin third position shifting song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having decided that some of my students needed a reminder to relax their thumbs whilst shifting and as preparation for upcoming exam pieces, I wrote this song along with a simple piano accompaniment. \u00a0It was well received and thoroughly enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Start off with a slow shift up and down to the notes, so students can concentrate on reaching the correct pitch, then speed up the shift until students become confident with that &#8220;1st finger to 1st finger shift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To print out the violin part only, click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-part.pdf\">Kitten on the Fingerboard &#8211; Violin part<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the entire score (piano and violin), click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-score.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-full-score.pdf\">Kitten on the Fingerboard score<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-355\" title=\"Kitten on the Fingerboard - Violin - 2010-08-13 2201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Kitten-on-the-Fingerboard-Violin-2010-08-13-2201.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having decided that some of my students needed a reminder to relax their thumbs whilst shifting and as preparation for upcoming exam pieces, I wrote this song along with a simple piano accompaniment. \u00a0It was well received and thoroughly enjoyed. Start off with a slow shift up and down to the notes, so students can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}