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Stage 2 - A minimum of two years should be spent at this stage
Upper strings
- Recap on 1st year work
- Moving 2nd fingers
- 1st finger back (flat keys)
- Use 4th finger (Bb 2 octaves, Eb 2 octaves violas)
- Playing 2 open strings
- String crossing
- Arpeggios
- Postural awareness
- Move 4th finger forwards
- Move 3rd finger forwards
- Possibly: get used to moving hand up higher (eg. play same tune on different notes)
- Use different parts of the bow (whole and half)
- Uneven rhythms (slow and fast)
- Increase slurs up to 4 notes
- Biting bow, staccato, starting and stopping, pressure
- Major/Minor Variations (2 minor scales)
- Saucer movements and half position
Cellos
- Recap on 1st year work, especially bow arm and hold and left hand position
- Postural awareness
- Backward/forward extensions
- 4th position with extensions
- 1 octave harmonics
- Half position
- More advanced slurs (more than 2 notes)
- Slurs and staccato combined (on string)
- Increasing velocity
- Dynamics
- Sforzando/ fortepiano/ tremelando
- Arco to pizz
- Keys: (one octave) Major Bb, Eb, Minor E, B
- Keys (two octaves) Major G, D, F, Minor D, G, C
Double basses (Stages 1-3)
- Basics of Tuning
- Bow hold
- Basic bow strokes and terminology
- Holding instrument and posture
- Plucking and arco sound
- One octave scales of E, F, G, A, B, Bb, C, D
- Positions up to D with 4th finger
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