1:1 Private Online (via zoom) violin lessons $30 Call for availability.

We use the Suzuki Book 1 to start but I can help students who are already established using other books as well.

20 Week Semester Suzuki Violin: $20/week (or $400 upfront) This is a GROUP class

Openings:

May 3, 2025 5pm: Register here

May 23, 2025 7pm: Register here

June 2, 2025 4:30pm: Register here

June 6, 2025: 11:30am: Register here

Learning to play the violin teaches music and a whole lot more. In each lesson, students learn to read the treble clef, play the music on their violin, discipline with practice, music mathematics and appreciation for music. Violin requires a certain amount of physical commitment as well. We will be using the Suzuki Violin books. Using this method, students will be required to stand up to play their violin. They will also be required to hold their bow a certain way and to practice holding and moving the bow outside of lessons.

The great thing about the Suzuki Method is that the songs are familiar to students. Suzuki believes that if the student already recognizes the tune, it will be easier to learn pieces of music from the very first lesson. Each week we will cover:
-note reading
-bow techniques
-dynamics

Week 1: How to tune your violin. How to read the lines and spaces of the treble clef. Practice page 23, All Notes in First Position on the A and E Strings.

Week 2: Suzuki notation for violin. Tuning your violin in practice. Review of Song 1, Variation 1 in Book 1. New Song for this week,Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Variation 1. Intro to beginning flash cards for notation reading.

Week 3: Using Twinkle, Twinkle as a warm up during practice. New song for this week Lightly Row. Flash card practice.

Week 4: We will use Lightly Row as a warm up for practice this week. New sing for this week is Song of the Wind. Flash card practice.

Week 5: Pizzicato and Bowing Review. Introduction to advanced bowing techniques are introduced this week. Practice all pieces learned so far while applying the bowing techniques. Flashcard practice.

Week 6: New Song for this week: Go Tell Aunt Rhody. New flash cards added.

Week 7: Warm up song is Go Tell Aunt Rhody. New song we will learn this week is O Come Little Children. Review of all flash cards.

Week 8: This week, we will focus on the Scales and Arpeggios in A Major with the exercises on page 30. Review of flash cards.

Week 9: Warm up with Scales and Arpeggios and new song will be May Song. New flashcards added.

Week 10: Warm up song will be a review of May Song. New song will be Long, Long Ago. Review of all flashcards that we have learned so far.

Week 11: Review of the differences between staccato and legato and how it is applied to the bow. New song this week will be Allegro on page 32.

Week 12: This will be our second week to work on the song Allegro and practice the precision of going back and forth between legato and staccato.

Week 13: Review of Allegro and our new song will be Perpetual Motion. Review of flashcards.

Week 14: This week we will review Perpetual Motion the song. We will add Finger Exercises Number 11 on page 34 and the Scales and Arpeggios in D Major.

Week 15: New Song will be Allegretto. New flashcards added including accent marks.

Week 16: Review of all flashcards. Review and second week for the song Allegretto.

Week 17: New song will be Andantino with emphasis on timing and rhythm.

Week 18: We will use Andantino as our warm up song and practice the new scales and arpeggios for G Major on page 36.

Week 19: New and final song for the semester will be Etude on page 37.

Week 20: Etude and performance as a class.

While I do teach using the Suzuki method, I do not believe that each piece needs to be perfect before the student can move on to the next song. I am patient. I also have links to samples of all of the pieces so students can listen to them. I suggest listening to the week’s lesson song each night before bed or as students are falling asleep.

Please let Miss Michele know if you have played the violin before or if you can read music. That will help her to place you at the correct level. Students will be expected to practice 10-15 minutes per day outside of lessons. As the semester progresses, MORE practice time will be required.