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Stage 4 - This is a minimum 3 year course
Upper strings
- 1st to 5th positions
- Harmonics
- Advanced bowing techniques
- Double stopping and chordal playing
- Introducing Diminished, Dominant 7ths etc
- Introducing vibrato
- Postural awareness
- Scales and arpeggios – all keys up to 4 sharps and flats (although at this level you could be required to play music in any key)
Cellos
- Recap from Stage 3
- Postural awareness
- 5th, 6th, 7th and thumb positions
- Consolidating and moving around positions
- Introducing vibrato
- Scales and arpeggios – all keys up to 4 sharps and flats (although at this level you could be required to play music in any key)
- Introducing double stopping
- Developing bow control
- Improving sound quality
Double basses (stages 4-5)
- Recap from previous stages
- Comfortable at tuning the instrument
- More complex bow strokes
- Two octave scales
- More demanding coordination of left and right hand
- Higher positions
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