October 8, 2025 Homework Accelerando

ByVicky Bufano

Welcome Accelerando!

Next week October 15: VIOLINS have techniques class!
  • Accelerando: Prioritize this week: Christmas Grace Measures 56-72
    Listen to all the pieces. This counts as practice!
    1) Bow hold exercises: they happen every day.
    Check for:
    *bent thumb on top of the frog, inside the bow
    *Middle finger right across from the thumb
    *ring finger right next to middle finger
    *pinky bent and on top of the bow
    *index finger touching close to the 2nd joint and relaxed
    With this good bow hold, do
    1 Rocket Song (up, down, across, in a circle)
    10 Windshield Wipers
    5-10 Elevators
    Mississippi Hot dog rhythm is done in the middle of the bow (not the frog!)
    2) Red Finger pattern
    Practice red patten
    Violins and Violas: Play red pattern with the mississippi hot dog pattern on the E,A, D, and G string. Use 4th finger!
    Cellos and basses: On every string except your highest string with mississippi hot dog (like we did in class).
    Optional: Red pattern with shifting
    Basses: Use shifting pattern
    3) Blue Pattern
    Violin and violas: low 2s. Still use 4th finger instead of open strings
    -play on every string and use the mississippi hot dog pattern
    4) Yellow Pattern
    Violins and Violas:
    D-1-2-high 3-4
    Cello: D-1-2 on the 3rd finger tape- 4 beyond the tapes
    5) D and G One Octave Scale with Mississippi Hot Dog Rhythm
    Double check violin/viola holds (keep out to the side, hold with your head. Violin/viola should be flat and not tilted up or down)
    Cellos use the Low D for your D scale (starting on the 1st finger on the C string, use the yellow pattern)
    Violins use the middle G for your G scale (3rd finger on the D string)
    6) Burst: Learn all. Mark any notes you need into the music neatly with a pencil
    7) Ninja:  Learn all. Mark any notes you need into the music neatly with a pencil. Use 4th finger when you see a “4” above a note.
    8) Mahler’s Mysterious March:  Learn all. Mark any notes you need into the music neatly with a pencil. Low 2s on the A string for viola and violin. Cellos use 2 instead of 3 for the C naturals.
    9) Christmas Grace:
    -start listening and learning the notes
    -Spend most of your practice time learning and mastering measure 56-72
    10) Music Reading Practice: If it is only your 2nd year of reading music/reading music on your instrument, OR you find yourself struggling to read the pieces at the speed we go in class, do the following:
    Step1: Print an extra copy of all your music
    Step2: Write neatly above each note the pitch (not the finger number) of the first line
    Step3: PLay through the first line
    Step4: Repeat with 3rd,4th, 5th and so on lines
    Step5 (optional): Bring it to me or a class helper to check notes if you are not sure if you did it right

    Scales

 

Theory homework: Please click on the link to download and print your homework.  Students working out of All for Strings will have their own book and it is not linked here. 

Theory A: Sharp Signs and Flat Signs

Theory B: AfS I: pages 8-9 and 10-11

Theory C: Theory Time Fifth: Lessons 7-8

Theory D: Theory Time Sixth: Lessons 7-8

Theory E: AfS II: Pages 8-9 and 10-11

 

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