Colourstrings Beginner Package
This package includes: Book A Course, Book B Course, and Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy 1st Year Course. In the Book A and B courses, Prof. Géza Szilvay explains and demonstrates how the violin is introduced to the child in the Colourstrings approach. Violin pedagogue Susanna Arminen demonstrates the exercises with the violin. In the Minifiddlers 1st year lessons, Prof. Szilvay teaches his group of children, which makes it easy for you to follow along. You can study the videos individually at your own pace, or you can gather together your own group of little violinists and follow the weekly lesson plan. The package includes lessons for the whole first year.
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239 € / 3 months
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The plan suits multiple teachers or students in music schools, universities, and other music institutions.
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Content length:
16 hours 29 minutes
Format:
Streaming video
Access:
90-days unlimited access
Lessons and pedagogical topics
Book A: Video length 2 hours 16 minutes. The course covers the following pedagogical topics:
- Developing the basic holds, basic movements and basic rhythms on open strings
- Left hand "numbered" pizzicato
- Connecting the movements of two hands
- Natural (octave) harmonics
- Natural (fifth, fourth and third) harmonics in first position
- Introducing the line system
- The one-line stave
Book B: Video length 2 hours 12 minutes. The course covers the following pedagogical topics:
- The stopping first finger. Two-note melodies
- The stopping second finger. Three-note melodies
- The stopping third finger. Four-note melodies
- The stopping fourth finger. Five-note melodies
Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy Course: 1st year. Length 12 hours 1 minute. Each video lesson is 14–32 minutes.
- Lesson 1 — Establishing the basic holds and movements
- Lesson 2 — Basic rhythms; long, short
- Lesson 3 — First "chamber music"
- Lesson 4 — Basic rhythms; long, short and rest
- Lesson 5 — Basic rhythms; long, short, rest and half note
- Lesson 6 — The bow-hold
- Lesson 7 — Directions on the fingerboard
- Lesson 8 — String crossing (open strings and "octave" natural harmonics)
- Lesson 9 — Two note songs
- Lesson 10 — Three note songs
- Lesson 11 — Grasshopper
- Lesson 12 — The "one line system"
- Lesson 13 — Natural harmonics in the first position
- Lesson 14 — Natural harmonics in the first position
- Lesson 15 — Christmas session
- Lesson 16 — Stopping with the first finger
- Lesson 17 — Stopping with the first finger and left hand pizzicato
- Lesson 18 — First finger stopping motion together with early change of position
- Lesson 19 — First finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position
- Lesson 20 — Stopping with the second finger
- Lesson 21 — Stopping with the second finger
- Lesson 22 — Second finger stopping motion together with early change of position
- Lesson 23 — Second finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position
- Lesson 24 — Stopping with the third finger
- Lesson 25 — Stopping with the third finger
- Lesson 26 — Third finger stopping motion together with early change of position
- Lesson 27 — Kreutzerini exercises for the stopping third finger
- Lesson 28 — Stopping with the fourth finger
- Lesson 29 — Stopping with the independent fourth finger
- Lesson 30 — Fourth finger stopping motion together with early change of position
- Lesson 31 — Fourth finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position
- Lesson 32 — Transposition and Summary
Book(s) used in the course
Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC, Book A and Book B
Please notice that the page numbers mentioned in the videos may vary depending on the edition used.
It's not a requirement to have the book to study the course, but it will help you to deepen your learning. The book can be purchased from Fennica Gehrman's web shop, both as a printed book and an epub.
Teacher: Prof. Géza Szilvay
Violinist, teacher, conductor and the President of ESTA (European String Teachers Association) Prof. Géza Szilvay is creator of Colourstrings method.
Géza has decades of experience of violin pedagogy. He has given more than 200 lectures and workshops on his child-centered teaching method and philosophy across the world, and trained pupils and teachers online over 10 years. In addition to his long pedagogical experience, Géza is known for his strong presence and personal warmth that makes him an excellent and impressive online teacher.
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