Please consider signing up your favorite musicians for Camp Adagio! Musical activities will include two daily coached chamber music sessions, master classes, chorus and theory, and two 1/2 hour private lessons during the week. We’ll also embark on daily art projects including screen printing camp t-shirts, visit the Middlebury College Art Museum, visit with
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Below is is the Suzuki Group group class syllabus for Sunday, March 1 at 4pm. If a student is not yet playing the song they can sit in their spot or bow on E string following the leader’s bowing pattern. Tuning Bowing Bunny Bow Holds with pens Up like a rocket with pens Bunny Bow Holds
It can be difficult to ensure lessons begin and end on time. Please plan to arrive 5 minutes ahead of your lesson. 3-5 minutes before your lesson start time, come quietly into the room! You are free to then find a spot to drop cases and find an empty seat, use the bathroom, get
Below is is the Suzuki Group group class syllabus for Sunday, February 8th at 4pm. If a student is not yet playing the song they can sit in their spot or bow on a single string following the leader’s bowing pattern. Tuning Name Game Warm Up / Yoga Meghan to demonstrate and then lead downward dog at
Below is is the Suzuki Group group class syllabus for January, 24, 2014. The majority of students for this class have played for 1-6 months between the ages of 5-9. Tuning Name Game (Introduce yourself and share what you had for breakfast. Reintroduce the person next to you then state your own name and what
Many students in an effort to control the bow grip the bow with the fingers all strongly curving around the top of the bow or balancing on the finger tips on top of the bow. This creates tension in the wrist which prohibits fluid bowing and the condition where to make a sound, the pointer
Group classes for Suzuki violin students are held at The Middlebury Community Music Center. Classes and recitals are open to all community members and included in tuition for lessons. All Suzuki violin students are invited to attend and can offer a donation if they do not study at MCMC. Saturday, January 24th at 11:30 am
I often find myself happily trimming fingernails for young students at lessons. Trimmed fingernails are critical on Left Hand fingers 1-4 and Right Hand Thumb and Pinkie. Students are free to go crazy and grow the other ones. I have one memory of my teacher, Barbara Embser as a 4 year old in
Building a box violin is often the first step parents take towards working with their children to learn the violin. I don’t do this in the lesson as parents can work with their children solo on this lesson. It is useful to look at the picture of the violin in Suzuki book one to
For those of you following my blog thinking about quitting your corporate life. Ahem. Don’t. Pause. Well do, but there are financial impacts, of course. I’m working on making the transition to the dream and have been saving for this for some time. The reality of piecing together a family life with dual incomes of
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