Putting It All Together – Twinkle Variation A Now we are finally putting it all together! You should already have isolated the right hand to get the proper rhythm and motion. Hopefully, you have all the fingerings worked out from this lesson. Now it is time to put it all together in Variation A. Practice along […]
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Isolating The Bow For Twinkle Success! You have hopefully already learned the left hand fingerings for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in the first lesson. Now it is time to isolate the right hand and start learning the variation bowings independent of the left hand. Learning to really use the bow is far more complicated than
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THIS MUSIC IS IN MY BLOOD My 4th great-grandfather John Toone crossed was one of the early Mormon Pioneers. Our family’s oral history records that he played the cello in Queen Elizabeth’s orchestra in the 1840’s. When he, in 1852, immigrated to what is now Utah, he brought with him a cello. This is before
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BACH IS THE TIMELESS EVEN ON THE ELECTRIC Fiddling around on the electric is a great way to discover new sounds and bring new life to old works. Something about this particular effect on my effects pedal really longed for Bach. After a while I took it into the backyard and set my phone on
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THIS IS MY BACKYARD! It was such a beautiful fall day that I just had to make some music and Ashokan Farewell felt right. The autumn leaves were falling all around. Partway through you can hear the wind rustling them off of one of my maple trees. If you watch to the very end you
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Mastering 1st Position And Note Names By now you should REALLY know your first position note names and fingers. If not, go back and see exercises 1 through 5. Schroeder No. 6 is a mastery exercise. It will thoroughly test you not only through using every note you know if first position, but purely by
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Putting It All Together Schroeder No. 5 brings together all the elements learned in the previous 4 exercises and adds slurs! In the Schroeder No. 1 Exercise you learned your open strings. Schroeder No. 2 added 1st finger. Schroeder 3 added both 2nd and 3rd finger plus dotted half-notes. Schroeder 4 added 4th finger. The
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Now You’ve Got All of 1st Position! In the Schroeder No. 1 Exercise you learned your open strings — C, G, D, and A. Schroeder No. 2 added 1st finger. Schroeder 3 added both 2nd and 3rd finger. Now it’s time to finish the set and learn to use your 4th finger! Go up one note-name
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Now You Are REALLY Reading Music! Reading open strings and 1st fingers is a great way to start learning to read music. In the Schroeder No. 1 Exercise you learned your open strings — C, G, D, and A. Schroeder No. 2 added 1st finger and now we are adding four more notes to your toolkit
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Becoming A Music Reader 1 Finger At A Time! Learning to read music can be so easy and even fun if you just take it one finger at a time! In the Schroeder No. 1 Exercise you learned your open strings — C, G, D, and A. Schroeder No. 2 adds the 1st finger so just
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