Nazareth Area Strings

Summertime and Retaining Your Skills

While we all know we like to have fun over the summer and just cut loose from the school year, summertime is a great opportunity for all students to review what they have learned and to find some music that is fun to perform.  Take the summertime to do the following:

  • Review the skills you learned throughout the school year
  • If your posture was not correct, take this time to relearn and adjust
  • Find a fun book of music from movies or other things you like and learn the music, then perform it for family and friends
  • Find a group of friends to play your instrument with
  • If you want to have instruction over the summer, find a private teacher for your instrument
  • Find some websites to work on music reading skills or refresh your memory on music symbols, etc.
  • Some websites:  Music Tech Teacher, Violin Online, Viola Online, and Cello Online, there are various other websites to go to also – just do a web search.
  • Need any help or recommendations, please email me and I’d be happy to help

Things to watch for…..in the beginning of August, I will start posting scales, some sight reading pieces for various groups for upcoming auditions for small ensembles.  All items will be either a word document or a PDF, so you should be able to print them from the web directly.

Enjoy your summer and see you in about 2 months!!

This entry was posted Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Notable News.