Christmas Carols for Violin: The 12 Days of Christmas
What you'll learn
- After this course the student will be able to play 12 traditional and popular Christmas carols, ready for the festive season.
Requirements
- Be able to read music, or to pick up tunes by ear.
- Have a tuned violin
- Have some experience playing the violiin the keys of G and D major
- You will need the Fiddle Time Christmas book, by Kathy and David Blackwell, and some music downloaded from the internet.
Description
This course will show you how to play 12 traditional and popular Christmas Carols for the Violin.
Each Carol is played by Henriette, who then takes you through the music step by step, so that you learn to play the carols in no time.
Learn about where to place your left hand fingers on the violin and how to bow.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners with some experience and Intermediate violin players
Course content
- Preview02:52
- Preview05:06
- Preview05:56
- 04:28The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 4: O Little Town of Bethlehem
- 03:50The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 5: Once in Royal David's City
- 04:43The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 6: Go Tell it on the Mountain
- 05:07The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 7: O Christmas Tree
- 05:04The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 8: Frosty the Snowman
- 06:04The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 9: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)
- 05:46The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 10: Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer
- 04:35The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 11: Jingle Bell Rock
- 04:13The 12 Days of Christmas - Day 12: We wish you a Merry Christmas
Instructor
![Henriette de Vrijer](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 17 Reviews
- 146 Students
- 2 Courses
Henriette studied violin with Jan Hulst at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in the Netherlands and graduated in 1991 with the DM exam. From 1991-1994 she continued private postgraduate violin studies with Tessa Robins-Khambatta in London. She was a member of the Continuo Chamber Orchestra in the Netherlands and played for Dutch Television. She also holds a Masters Degree in Education from the Open University.
Henriette has taught the violin in music schools in the Netherlands and currently works as a visiting violin teacher in schools in England. She also has a private teaching practice at home. Students have gone on to specialist music schools, read music at university, have become professional violinists and viola players, have gained music scholarships and music exhibitions to schools and colleges and have won music competitions. In recent years, violin teachers have come to observe Henriette's lessons in order to enhance their own teaching. Henriette is also a contributor to The Strad Magazine's "Ask the Experts" column.
Outstanding online violin lessons, viola lessons, cello lessons
Over the years, students and fellow teachers repeatedly asked Henriette to write a book about string playing technique. Henriette never believed though that playing a string instrument can be learned from written text or from photographs alone. This is how the idea for the online campus developed. The exercises you will find at Pro-Am Strings were developed and tested over 25 years of teaching the violin. They have been proven to produce an enhanced technique, better tone and faster learning. Having the exercises online in different formats means that, whatever your preferred learning style, there will always be something for you. This, coupled with a great team of Associate Teachers, means that we are now consistently rated as delivering outstanding online violin, viola and cello lessons by a growing community of players across the globe.
Away from work, Henriette enjoys cooking for friends, floristry, figure skating and outdoor pursuits such as road cycling and walking her dog Mac.