Colourstrings Beginner Package
How to build the first year of violin playing step by step
A complete set of lectures and real teaching videos following beginners from their very first lesson.
This package includes:
- Géza Szilvay's Colourstrings Lecture for Book A
- Géza Szilvay's Colourstrings Lecture for Book B
- Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy 1st Year Course (32 video lessons)
You can follow the same group of children week by week from their very first violin lesson.
In the Book A and B lectures, Prof. Géza Szilvay explains and demonstrates how the violin is introduced to the child in the Colourstrings approach. In the Minifiddlers Year 1 videos, you can follow his teaching with a group of children, lesson by lesson, throughout the first year.
Single
Buy online course for a single user, e.g. an individual pedagogue, student or a family.
239 € / 12 months
Organisation
The plan suits multiple teachers or students in music schools, universities, and other music institutions.
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$100
per user
per year
Basic features for up to 10 users.
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Everything in our free plan plus...
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Basic reporting and analytics
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20GB individual data each user
Basic chat and email support
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$200
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per year
Growing teams up to 20 users.
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Everything in Basic plus...
200+ integrations
Advanced reporting and analytics
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40GB individual date each user
Priority chat and email support
Enterprise plan
$400
per user
per year
Growing teams up to 40 users.
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Audit log and data history
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Content length:
16 hours 29 minutes
Format:
Streaming video
Access:
12 months unlimited access
What this package helps you with
- how to start with beginners in a clear and structured way
- how to establish posture and basic movements without tension
- how to introduce note reading and music-making from the very beginning
- how to build a solid foundation that supports later progress
Lessons and pedagogical topics
The package follows a full first year of teaching, including:
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
This package is for you if:
- you are starting a new group of beginners
- you want a clear structure and curriculum for the first lessons
- you would like to explore the Colourstrings approach in practice
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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