Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy Course: 2nd year

In the videos Professor Szilvay teaches his group of children, which makes it easy for you to follow along. You can study the videos individually at your own pace, or you can gather together your own group of little violinists and follow the weekly lesson plan. The package includes lessons for the whole second year.

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The plan suits for a single user, e.g. an individual pedagogue, student or a family.

14,95 € per month (billed annually) or 39,90 € per month (billed monthly)

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Content length:

12 hours 24 minutes

Format:

Streaming video

Access:

Unlimited access during the chosen subscription period. Subscription renews automatically in the end of the subscription period unless you cancel it before that.

Lessons and pedagogical topics

Each video lesson is 18–32 minutes.

Lesson 1 — The two-line stave within the five-line stave, Ledger lines, Tempi, Bow stroke directions, Slurred quavers / eight notes played by adjacent fingers
Lesson 2 — Slurred quavers / eight notes played by non-adjacent fingers
Lesson 3 — Shifts within a slur
Lesson 4 — The syncopated rhythm
Lesson 5 — Bow-stroke division and slur
Lesson 6 — "Fast" shifts within the slur
Lesson 7 — The dotted half note
Lesson 8 — Melodies with dotted half note
Lesson 9 — Dotted quarter / crochet note
Lesson 10 — Melodies with dotted quarter / crochet note
Lesson 11 — Summary of the newly learned rhythms
Lesson 12 — Scales
Lesson 13 — Playing on two strings
Lesson 14 — Christmas session
Lesson 15 — String-crossing
Lesson 16 — Pentatony
Lesson 17 — Pentatonic melodies
Lesson 18 — String crossing together with stopping motion on two neighbouring strings
Lesson 19 — String crossing together with stopping motion on two neighbouring strings
Lesson 20 — Pentatonic scales
Lesson 21 — New finger pattern: The low stopping position of the second finger
Lesson 22 — Low stopping position of the second finger together with shifting movements
Lesson 23 — Minor Pentahord Melodies played with the new finger pattern
Lesson 24 — Pentahordal melodies and scales
Lesson 25 — Playing on two strings
Lesson 26 — String crossing with slurs
Lesson 27 — Hexachord melodies played with portato and introduction of the upbeat
Lesson 28 — Mixed finger patterns
Lesson 29 — Hexachordal melodies and scales
Lesson 30 — Matinée (Rascals Vol. I & Vol. 4)

Book(s) used in the course

Géza Szilvay: Colourstrings Violin ABC, Book C and Book D (+ Book B and Kreutzerini - Supplementary material for the Colourstrings Violin ABC Book B).

Lessons 1–14: Book C (+ Book B and Kreutzerini - Supplementary material for the Colourstrings Violin ABC Book B)
Lessons 15–20: Book C
Lessons 21–30: Book D

Please notice that the page numbers mentioned in the videos may vary depending on the edition used.

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Teacher: Prof. Géza Szilvay

Violinist, teacher, conductor and the President of ESTA (European String Teachers Association) Prof. Géza Szilvay is creator of Colourstrings method.

Géza has decades of experience of violin pedagogy. He has given more than 200 lectures and workshops on his child-centered teaching method and philosophy across the world, and trained pupils and teachers online over 10 years. In addition to his long pedagogical experience, Géza is known for his strong presence and personal warmth that makes him an excellent and impressive online teacher.