Valentina’s Waltz is a delightful piano solo in A Major. The right hand melody soars above the left hand accompaniment. Valentina’s Waltz is a great piece to reinforce A Major chords and reading skills. The sheet music is available on demand as a digital print.
Inspired by the digital print publishing Labor of Love publishing contest, I wrote a piano solo for each of my current piano students. I will be publishing a series of posts about the new pieces.
As an overview, this is a list of the new music written between August 26th and September 14th.
in C Position
thumbs around middle C
C Major
G Major
G Minor
E Minor
F Major
D Major
A Major
Do you want to know what each piece sounds like? A musical sample is available on sheetmusicplus. Just follow the link with each title.
What am I supposed to practice? The links go to video examples.
2:00 Class
1. review parts of the violin and bow page 3
2. practice open strings pizzicato
3. practice open strings arco
4. finger practice pattern on page 6
5. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star first phrase
6. Adrian’s Song page 10
7. Red and Orange Songs page 11
8. write the note names for the Yellow and Green Songs page 12
3:15 Class
1. D Major Scale (pg 11 in Violin is Easy)
3. Skill Sheet 1 #1,2,3,4,5
4. Adrian’s Song pg 4 in Novice Book
5. Flop Eared Mule, violin 3 part
6. Flop Eared Mule, violin 1 part to the repeat sign
7. label all the A’s and B’s in the Bells of Amsterdam on pg 6 in Novice Book
Video of complete Chatter With the Angels
Video of complete Flop Eared Mule violin 1 part
Look for Miriam in the cello section at WaterFire.
What am I supposed to practice? The links go to video examples.
2:00 Class
1. review parts of the violin and bow page 3
2. label parts of violin and bow page 9
3. practice open strings pizzicato
4. practice open strings arco
5. finger practice pattern on page 6
6. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star first phrase
7. Adrian’s Song page 10
8. Red and Orange Songs page 11
3:15 Class
1. D Major Scale (pg 11 in Violin is Easy)
3. Skill Sheet 1 #1,2,3
4. Adrian’s Song pg 4 in Novice Book
5. Flop Eared Mule, violin 3 part
6. Flop Eared Mule, violin 1 part
Video of complete Chatter With the Angels
Video of complete Flop Eared Mule violin 1 part
The video is available showing each phrase of Yankee Doodle. Try it out. Let me know what you think by taking the survey.
The bottom line, Prof. Weisberg told me, is that creativity goes back in many ways to the basics. “You have to immerse yourself in a discipline before you create in that discipline. It is built on a foundation of learning the discipline, which is what your music teacher was requiring of you.”
via ‘Strings Attached’ Co-Author Offers Solutions for Education – WSJ.
Good article. The science of why is as interesting as the book.
Just a reminder! School Lesson Schedule begins Monday, August 25th
Also beginning the same week, CelloBrationS rehearsals will start at 8:00 PM on Thursdays.
It’s a rainy morning, but one of my sunflowers came in to brighten my day.
This gallery contains 13 photos.
12/8/12 and 12/21/12
Miriam Troxler 