Tag Archives: strings

New Product: Bowing Bingo!

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Lady Fair

In an attempt to make some extra money, I have been designing lesson plans, worksheets, and activities to upload to the TeachersPayTeachers website. TpT is a great website with resources designed by teachers for teachers. You can be sure … Continue reading →

Posted in orchestra, Teaching Orchestra, Uncategorized | Tagged activity, bass, bingo, bow, cello, col legno, exam, fun, game, lesson, middle school, music, orchestra, puzzle, review, spiccato, staccato, strings, substitute, terms, tremolo, viola, violin, worksheet | Leave a comment

Music Curriculum Standards and Pacing Guide

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Lady Fair

Hi all! I’m currently sitting in a chorus/band summer training institute for teachers and we are discussing music standards, and how to work with them. Some useful websites for planning lessons and exploring standards are: 1. http://www.CPALMS.org, the site for … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching Band, Teaching Chorus, Teaching Elementary, Teaching Guitar, Teaching Orchestra | Tagged arts, band, choir, chorus, cpalms, elementary, essential learnings, fine arts, guide, high school, incomplete curriculum, marzano, middle school, music, orchestra, pacing, perform, Race to the top, standards, strings, sunshine state, vocal, voice, winds | Leave a comment

Orchestral Bowings

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Lady Fair

Hello all! Long time no write! I have finally landed a position in a school this year, teaching two classes of chorus and one class of orchestra. It has been fun but also very challenging at times. My orchestra class … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching Orchestra | Tagged bass, book, bow, bowing, cello, col legno, direct, elements, essential, help, hooked, how-to, marking, martele, middle school, orchestra, school, show, slide, slur, spiccato, strings, teach, teacher, term, terminology, tremolo, video, viola, violin | Leave a comment

Double Bass Basics

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Lady Fair

Double Bass Basics Photo from http://www.dafmusic.com Based on information given by bassist and orchestra teacher Mauricio Rodriguez, at a strings clinic I attended recently. The bass should be viewed as an extension of your body, it should be very natural … Continue reading →

Posted in Instruments | Tagged action, basics, bass, bass for dummies, body, bout, bow, bowing, bows, class, contra, double, dummies, endpin, etude, finger board, French, German, hair, height, help, hold, how-to, left hand, lesson, material, music, neck, orchestra, position, posture, repair, resources, right hand, scales, scroll, size, string, strings, teach, teachers, tips, tricks, tutorial, upright, website | Leave a comment

Orchestral Strings Tips or “Bag of Tricks”

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Lady Fair

Some brief tips that I have learned in teaching orchestral strings classes. This is not a comprehensive list by any means, but it is a start. Please add your own comments and I will add them to the list. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Practice Techniques, Teaching Orchestra, Tips and Tricks | Tagged bass, beginning, bow, cello, class, double, ed, education, elementary, French, German, hair, help, hold, ideas, middle school, music, orchestra, posture, room, Russian, shadow, string, strings, suggestions, teach, tip, tips, upright, viola, violin, wrist | Leave a comment

Don’t Fret!

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Lady Fair

I came across these during a recent subbing adventure for a middle school orchestra/guitar teacher: http://www.dontfret.net/ In case it is difficult to see, the lines that look like your traditional violin tapes are actually printed on a large piece of … Continue reading →

Posted in Teaching Orchestra | Tagged bass, beginner, beginning, cello, classroom, don't fret, dontfret.net, fret, frets, help, http://www.dontfret.net/, middle school, music, no fret, orchestra, string, string tapes, strings, tape, tapes, viola, violin | Leave a comment

Guitar: fretboard and chromatic notes by string

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Lady Fair

An extremely useful chart that I yoinked from a teacher I was subbing for.

Posted in Teaching Guitar | Tagged 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, B, chart, chromatic, D, E, enharmonic, fret, fretboard, frets, G, guitar, notes, open, string, strings | Leave a comment

It will get better!

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Lady Fair

As I was subbing the other day, and lamenting the behavior of the terrible chorus children I had in those classes, I longed to have my own classroom. Then I thought to myself, “why would my own students be any … Continue reading →

Posted in Classroom Management, Neutral | Tagged band, beginning, behavior, chorus, class, classroom management, elementary, ensemble, Finding, high school, lesson, lessons, magnet, management, middle school, Mrs., music, new teacher, orchestra, piano, strings, sub, subsitute, teacher, teaching, Warneke | Leave a comment

Instrument Families Images

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Lady Fair

Some pictures of the various instrument families.

Posted in Teaching Elementary | Tagged band, bassoon, brass, clarinet, Elementary Music, flute, french horn, harp, instrument families, oboe, orchestra, percussion, piano, pictures, saxophone, snare drum, strings, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, woodwind | Leave a comment

Listening Map – Mussorgsky’s “Promenade”

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Lady Fair

This is one of my favorite lessons. I’ve taught it in class before, and I have used it in several of my college courses as well. I have included all the elements needed to teach this lesson. If you use … Continue reading →

Posted in 3rd-5th Grade Lessons | Tagged 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, brass, grade, instrument families, lesson, lesson plan, listening map, Mussorgsky, orchestra, Promenade, strings, timbre, woodwind | 2 Comments