Review Questions
What is subdivision?
What does it mean to play on “The and (&) of one?”
Are you comfortable counting the “Addition Method?” I.E. wuh-uhn two-oo for quarter notes
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On Sunday I drove with one of my friends [from Chicago] to Nashville, Tennessee to catch a performance by Secret Chiefs 3 on Monday. Secret Chiefs 3 has been around for quite a few years now, as I have grown up listening to them. The group consists of musicians from all over [...]
Review Questions
Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D and A strings?
Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers around? Pay attention to [...]
Estradasphere is an innovative group that often times changes style and feel several times throughout an album, if not the entire song! Seeing this group outperform their albums live is what really turned me onto playing violin on a much more serious level.
The group’s original lineup on this album consists of:
John Whooley - Saxophone
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Before you begin!
Review Questions
1. Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D and A strings?
2. Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers [...]
Before you begin!
Review Questions
1. What is a scale?
2. What does pizz. mean?
3. Can you place your finger on and name each note on the D string?
4. Are you playing all of your notes with the correct finger, or are you getting lazy and moving your fingers around? Pay attention to where you fingers go!
5. What [...]
The Foo Fighters held a concert called, “My Grammy Moment,” Allowing 20 musicians to audition to play with them at the Grammys. While I didn’t make it, one of my best friends (and fellow player in 8 Bit Trio), Andrew Pearson, did!
Check out this local article and help cheer on Andrew Pearson as he makes [...]
Hello and welcome to Stringsavvy.com Violin Lesson #3! In the last lesson we went over holding the instrument, how to pluck, and learning our string names. Today we will be learning the notes on the D string as well as how to hold the bow!
In the beginning of the month I wrote a post called “10 Ways to Improve Your Playing.” It was so popular that I decided to write about 10 + 1 more ways! This list I feel in some ways dives a little bit deeper than the last, though that doesn’t mean the first list isn’t [...]
Hello and welcome to Stringsavvy.com Violin Lesson #2! Today we will covering some basic theory and then moving on to actually playing our instrument! In our last lesson we talked about clapping and counting to four. When we clapped and counted, each NUMBER was a beat. So 1 2 3 4 was really 4 beats [...]