Classical violin

Violin technique with Miss Laura, the violin teacher? Accent: An accent in sheet music looks like this: > or this: v and means to emphasized a note with a little force. An accented note will have a “consonant” sound at the beginning of it “k” or “t” Accelerando – Accelerando can be abbreviated Accel. and means to Accelerate or speed up gradually.; Fortississimo: Fortississimo is written fff and means “very, very loud”

Violin: The violin or “fiddle” is a string instrument which is played with a bow. It is the smallest member of the string family of orchestra instruments. The violin has 4 strings. The names of the strings are E, A, D and G. The violin is very similar to the viola, but the violin has plays higher pitches. The violin comes in fractional sizes 1/64 to 3/4 and of course the 4/4 size violin.

Violin parts : Strings – There are 4 strings on the Violin. From highest pitch to lowest pitch (also thinnest to thickest string) the names of the violin strings are: E A D G Screw – The violin bow adjusting screw is used to tighten and loosen the bow. Keep the bow hairs loose when not being used to play. And only tighten the hairs so that there is a slight tension and the distance between the hairs and the stick in the middle is not wider than at the tip and frog. When holding the violin bow with the tip pointing to your left and the hairs facing the floor, turn the violin bow adjusting scew away from you to tighten the violin bow and toward you to loosen the violin Bow. You can also look directly at the end of the screw and turn righty, tightey, lefty, loosey.

Miss Laura’s lesson plans include customized practice charts and lesson notes. First, you will receive emailed PDF or spreadsheet practice charts to help keep track of practice. Also, you will receive e-mailed notes about the lesson and practice assignments. Most important, make it a goal to practice at least 5 times per week for the length of your online lesson (25 or 55 min.)

Each student who signs up for one of Miss Laura’s lesson plans will have their very own webpage or practice portal. The practice chart, audio recordings and sheet music will be accessible from the webpage and audio recordings can be submitted to Miss Laura from the page as well. Students can use the practice portal to help with practice and keep everything for their violin lessons in one place. Read additional information at Suzuki Violin Lessons.

How to change atrings? Remove the old string: First we need to remove the old string. Simply loosen the peg for that string and gently pull the end of the string out of the peg hole. Now the peg can come completely out of the peg box so be careful not to drop it. Remove the end of the string from the tail piece or fine-tuner. It is very important that you only remove one string at a time so that the bridge stays in place. To change all the strings on a violin, start with the A string and move down to D and G, changing the violin E string last since it is the smallest and most sensitive string. Use the same technique for Viola and Cello saving the A for last.