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Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet – Bach
Here is a great composers note reading worksheet on Bach for beginning violinists. I was listening to Beyond the Music podcast a couple weeks ago and their guest, Clair Allen, mentioned teaching her students about the composers of the pieces they are learning. Christine and Abigail mentioned growing up listening to cassette tapes of stories of great composers., and suddenly, it took me back to my own cassette tape collection. I loved these stories and listened to them over and over and over. The Music Masters Series – Johann Sebastian Bach So, this gave me the idea of creating a note reading worksheet. The notes covered are only the A string…
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Learning the Staff
Through the years, I’ve sort of pieced together worksheets or drawing worksheets on blank staff paper for little violin students learning the staff. I’ve found some worksheets online that aren’t keyboard specific and used those. Since moving, I’ve had some extra time the past few months and I’ve just started a beginning student. The perfect circumstances to create some worksheets staff worksheets for violin students who aren’t reading yet. I’ve made the mistake of starting to teach note reading from the note reading book and I find myself explaining in one lesson, staff, line-notes, space-notes, treble clef, quarter-notes, measures… What was I thinking!!!! No awards for that lesson. It makes me…
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Fingerboard Worksheets for Viola and Cello
Here are some fingerboard worksheets for violin, viola and cello. A couple months back, I got a call to substitute last minute for a theory class for our local Suzuki school. As I talked with the theory teacher, she suggested that I do some fingerboard mapping activities. Break out the fingerboard worksheets! Most of their classes focused on reading rhythm patterns and learning staff note. Several parents had asked how the staff notes corresponded to the instrument their child was learning. (The theory teacher was a non-string player, and as she is taking classes herself hadn’t had a chance to look up the fingerboard diagrams.) I told her I already…
