This week:
Practice Essential Elements, Exercises 18 and 19
Also practice Essential Elements, Exercises 20, 22, and 41. We will play these at the Christmas concert!
Remember, keep your left wrist straight, not pressing against the fingerboard (we don’t want to squash the bug). Also, make sure that when you play D string notes, you are plucking the D string and not other strings. When you have an open A (Exercises 20, 22, and 41), cross over to the A string to pluck it, then cross back over to pluck the D string when there are D string notes.
Keep working on your bow hold with a pencil. Make sure all your fingers are curved, and that there are small gaps between your middle fingers and your pinky and index finger. Try to relax your hand. Please make it look like the picture!
Bonus Question (write on paper for two tickets): Who wrote Jingle Bells? (Look at Essential Elements, Exercise 41 for the name)
Please practice at least 15 minutes every day!
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