It would include arpeggios and scale exercises, and it should teach chord theory in a way that makes it easier for string players to take that knowledge and apply it outside Common Practice Period repertoire #ViolinLessons #StringPedagogy
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Waiting until late HS/freshman year of college to teach chords & inversions is counterproductive, but my #violin students shouldn’t have to learn piano to understand how music works on their own fingerboards. #ViolinLessons #StringPedagogy
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In my vivid dreams of a string-centric #musictheory resource for young string players, it would be formatted similarly to the ubiquitous Essential Elements. It would introduce chords in arpeggio form first, b/c that’s how string players first meet chords.
It would include arpeggios and scale exercises, and it should teach chord theory in a way that makes it easier for string players to take that knowledge and apply it outside Common Practice Period repertoire #ViolinLessons #StringPedagogy
#stringpedagogy #violinlessons #musictheory
Remembered yesterday, while a student fumbled an arpeggio fingering, how VERY BADLY I want a #MusicTheory music book written from a strings-centric rather than keyboard-centric perspective.
Waiting until late HS/freshman year of college to teach chords & inversions is counterproductive, but my #violin students shouldn’t have to learn piano to understand how music works on their own fingerboards. #ViolinLessons #StringPedagogy
#stringpedagogy #violinlessons #violin #musictheory