Teaching & Playing
WENDY MAX
Private teacher; string tutor at childrens holiday courses across the UK; reti red teacher of the junior departments of the
Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Tower Hamlets Strings Project, London
EXERCISES
RHYTHM FOR BEGINNERS
Teaching rhythm using words is far more effective than trying to explain complicated ideas about quavers (e), semiquavers (S) and dots. Make flash cards for different notes and patterns, tell your students the name of each one, and use syllables to show how they sound.
To begin, clap the rhythms together; then, over the weeks, teach them to tap the crotchet (J) pulse on their knees as they say the syllables out loud:
You can make any combination of these, and also try some more complicated rhythms:
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We examine the 1677 ‘Romanov’ Nicolò Amati viola and the Royal Danish Orchestra’s instrument collection. Manfred Honeck explains how playing viola informs his conducting and Linus Roth discusses Weinberg. Plus the first in a two-part Berg Masterclass, with Leila Josefowicz.