Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy Course 2nd year

Minifiddlers 2nd year course includes 30 video lessons. The following books are used in the lessons: Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC Book C and Book D (+ Book B and Kreutzerini - Supplimentary material for the Colourstrings Violin ABC Book B). Please notice that the page numbers may vary depending on the edition used.

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Lesson 1 — The two-line stave within the five-line stave; Ledger lines; Tempi; Bow stroke directions; Slurred quavers / eight notes played by adjacent fingers

Lesson 2 — Slurred quavers / eight notes played by non-adjacent fingers

Lesson 3 — Shifts within a slur

Lesson 4 — The syncopated rhythm

Lesson 5 — Bow-stroke division and slur

Lesson 6 — "Fast" shifts within the slur

Lesson 7 — The dotted half note

Lesson 8 — Melodies with dotted half note

Lesson 9 — Dotted quarter / crochet note

Lesson 10 — Melodies with dotted quarter / crochet note

Lesson 11 — Summary of the newly learned rhythms

Lesson 12 — Scales

Lesson 13 — Playing on two strings

Lesson 14 — Christmas session

Lesson 15 — String-crossing

Lesson 16 — Pentatony

Lesson 17 — Pentatonic melodies

Lesson 18 — String crossing together with stopping motion on two neighbouring strings

Lesson 19 — String crossing together with stopping motion on two neighbouring strings

Lesson 20 — Pentatonic scales

Lesson 21 — New finger pattern: The low stopping position of the second finger

Lesson 22 — Low stopping position of the second finger together with shifting movements

Lesson 23 — Minor Pentahord Melodies played with the new finger pattern

Lesson 24 — Pentahordal melodies and scales

Lesson 25 — Playing on two strings

Lesson 26 — String crossing with slurs

Lesson 27 — Hexachord melodies played with portato and introduction of the upbeat

Lesson 28 — Mixed finger patterns

Lesson 29 — Hexachordal melodies and scales

Lesson 30 — Matinée (Rascals Vol. I & Vol. 4)

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