A beautiful melody from The Sound of Music to develop a singing tone and the ability to play confidently in 3/4. It has a lilting waltz-like accompaniment.
Grade 1 for upper strings but grade 2 for the double bass.
As the title suggests, this is all on the A string (except for the double bass). It uses a single finger pattern (0 1 23 for violin/viola and 0 1 34 for cello. The bass uses 0 1 4 and the open D-string). Rests allow for retakes and variety comes from a few semiquavers and one syncopated rhythm that can easily be learned by rote or using work patterns.
A firm favourite with players who can manage both dotted crotchets and dotted quavers in the same piece. You can play it all in half position, or in first position with one shift back to half position towards the end.
The well known Minuet from the Anna Madgalena Notebook gives lots of practice playing up a D major scale using 1st and 3rd positions. It also provides opportunities to develop the Minuet down-up-up bowing and other simple bowing patterns within a 3/4 time signature.
This beautiful melody in D minor is a favourite with both students and parents. It is evocative of French café music and can be played in first or half position. There are a few simple slurs.
