Creative Violin, The New Violin Method 1: Lessons 3, 4 and 5

Learn combining quarter and eighth notes and start with your first rhythmic patterns.

Also learn ties: playing 2 (or more) notes on one bow direction.

Practice along with this video.

Yay!! Congrats, this is your first actual song: "Mary Had A Little Lamb"

Let's play it!

Combining half notes and quarter notes on the D string

In this lesson we will cover string changes and the time signature: 3/4.

With that we will combine all techniques we learned so far with fingers 1 and 2.

Let's practice the string changing from the A string to the E string.

Play long bows so you can control the changing better.

This is a good moment to check if your bowings are still straight.

Same, but now we'll add some tied notes to it.

Now let's try this on the D string and A string.

Again, check your bowings.

We are ready for a nice song, making use of the exercises we did so far.

This is in a different time signature, 3/4.

This means: the quarter note is the "count" and there are 3 of them in a measure.

You will notice that the first measure has only one note, we call that an upbeat. (In the precount it will be on the 3rd).

This is usually "compensated" by taking one count out of the last measure, you can see it contains a half rest, (2 beats).

You could say that the third beat has moved to the beginning of the song, the upbeat.

In this lesson we will start with the 3rd finger.

The 3rd finger must be placed against the 2nd finger, remember to put the fingers round on the fingerboard.

We will practice this on all strings and learn how to read them.

Now read and learn the new notes where the 3rd fingers are in the score.

Here on the A string.

Round fingers and the 3rd against the 2nd finger.

Now on the D string.

Now on the G string.

Finally on the E string.

Nice little song on A and D string.

Now on the E string.

Finally on the G string.

We will add the 3rd finger in our improvisation.

Let's focus on doing this on one string for now.