Overview
Book 1
- Note names on the staff and ledger lines (treble clef for violin, alto clef for viola, bass clef for cello)
- Stem and flag directions
- Violin and viola: All finger patterns in first position with sharps. Cello: First Position “Regular” in sharps and flats. (With fingerboard charts to fill in, pieces to play, and fingering to explain)
- Note and rest values
- Rhythm relationships
- Clapping and counting basic rhythms in 4/4
Book 2
- Violin and viola: All finger patterns in first position with flats. Cello: Forward and Backward Extensions with sharps and flats. (With fingerboard charts to fill in, pieces to play, and fingering to explain)
- Time signatures
- Dotted notes
- Clapping and counting predictable rhythms with a variety of beat values; clapping and counting dotted half notes and dotted quarter-eighth note combinations
- Staccato and legato
- Slurs and ties
Book 3
- Half and whole steps
- Major scales and key signatures
- Finger patterns in first position through 3 sharps and 2 flats (with fingerboard charts to fill in, finger patterns to play, and fingering to explain)
- Compound time explained using jingles and poems
- Clapping and counting in compound time
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