La Folia – Variation 7 Rhythm

I have a student working on La Folia. We got to variation 7. She worked through it and her counting the next week wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t exactly accurate. Rather than having her write the counting into her book and clutter up the page with information I wanted her to have in her head I created this worksheet. I took out the pitches and took out the bowing. This allowed her to focus on the counting alone. Working in 2 measure groups I had her write in the counting and then play it counting out loud on open D. The first run through of the 2 measure phrase we ignored the ties. Then she played it again including the tie, all while counting out loud. Her assignment this week is to play through the entire variation on the worksheet – open D, with ties, counting out loud.