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Cathy Desmond

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Practice Guidelines Week1 Term 2

Swinging Strings
Rainy lunch times ?  Bored ?   Use one of the classroom fiddles to try out the two new notes we learned this week. Term 2  Week 1 Practice Guidelines

Exercise 1
Try the following     (i)BBBB BBBB repeat   x4
                                 (ii) BBBB AAAA repeat 
                                 (iii) BBBA BBBA
                                 (iv) AAAB AAAB        all on A Str
             Now try Nee Naw  1010 1010 1010 on any string 

Exercise 2                 All on D String
(i)        EEEE EEEE repeat (ii) EEEE DDDD repeat (iii) EEED EEED
(iv)      DDDE DDDE  

Exercise 3              Down Up Bows on   B   (A1)   first finger on A  
                               Check fingers well Over  Bow/ Hold not too tight / Bow on in middle

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