Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy Course 1st year

Minifiddlers 1st year course includes 32 video lessons. The following books are used in the lessons: Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC Book A and Book B. Please notice that the page numbers may vary depending on the edition used.

Book A

Lesson 1 — Establishing the basic holds and movements

Book A

Lesson 2 — Basic rhythms; long, short

Book A

Lesson 3 — First "chamber music"

Book A

Lesson 4 — Basic rhythms; long, short and rest

Book A

Lesson 5 — Basic rhythms; long, short, rest and half note

Book A

Lesson 6 — The bow-hold

Book A

Lesson 7 — Directions on the fingerboard

Book A

Lesson 8 — String crossing (open strings and "octave" natural harmonics)

Book A

Lesson 9 — Two note songs

Book A

Lesson 10 — Three note songs

Book A

Lesson 11 — Grasshopper

Book A

Lesson 12 — The "one line system"

Book A

Lesson 13 — Natural harmonics in the first position

Book A

Lesson 14 — Natural harmonics in the first position

Book A

Lesson 15 — Christmas session

Book B

Lesson 16 — Stopping with the first finger

Book B

Lesson 17 — Stopping with the first finger and left hand pizzicato

Book B

Lesson 18 — First finger stopping motion together with early change of position

Book B

Lesson 19 — First finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position

Book B

Lesson 20 — Stopping with the second finger

Book B

Lesson 21 — Stopping with the second finger

Book B

Lesson 22 — Second finger stopping motion together with early change of position

Book B

Lesson 23 — Second finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position

Book B

Lesson 24 — Stopping with the third finger

Book B

Lesson 25 — Stopping with the third finger

Book B

Lesson 26 — Third finger stopping motion together with early change of position

Book B

Lesson 27 — Kreutzerini exercises for the stopping third finger

Book B

Lesson 28 — Stopping with the fourth finger

Book B

Lesson 29 — Stopping with the independent fourth finger

Book B

Lesson 30 — Fourth finger stopping motion together with early change of position

Book B

Lesson 31 — Fourth finger stopping motion together with natural harmonics in the first position

Book B

Lesson 32 — Transposition and Summary