String Samurai
Introduction
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Video Lessons:
How NOT To Break Your Instrument
Full packets of all belt music:
String Samurai
White
Posture
Pizzicato
Fingering
Bow
2nd-degree White Belt
What to play:
Long bows
Sheet Music:
Video Lessons:
Yellow
A-string
Yellow Belt
What to play:
Morning Dance (violin, viola, cello)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (bass)
Sheet Music:
Orange
D-string (all)
G-string (bass)
2nd degree Yellow Belt
What to play:
D-Major scale (violin, viola, cello)
B-minor scale (bass)
Orange Belt
What to play:
Twinkle, Twinkle
Sheet Music:
Red
Higher notes
4th finger (violin, viola)
shifting (cello, bass)
2nd degree Orange Belt
What to play:
D-Major scale, alternate fingering (violin, viola)
Red Finger Pattern (cello, bass)
Red Belt
What to play:
Ode to Joy
Sheet Music:
Green
G-string (violin, viola, cello)
III position on G-string (bass)
2nd degree Red Belt
What to play:
G-Major scale (violin, viola, cello)
D-Major scale (bass)
Green Belt
What to play:
This Old Man (violin, viola, cello)
French Folk Song (bass)
Sheet Music:
Blue
Slurs
2nd degree Green Belt
What to play:
slurred D-Major scale
Blue Belt
What to play:
Song for Maria
Sheet Music:
Purple
2nd finger (cello, bass)
low 2nd finger (violin, viola)
2nd degree Blue Belt
What to play:
Black Finger Pattern
3rd degree Blue Belt
What to play:
C-Major scale (violin, bass)
C-Major scale - upper octave (viola, cello)
Purple Belt
What to play:
Russian Folk Tune
Sheet Music:
Brown
C-string (viola, cello)
E-string (violin, bass)
2nd degree Purple Belt
What to play:
G-Major scale, 2 octave (violin)
C-Major scale, 2 octave (viola, cello)
E-harmonic minor scale (bass)
Brown Belt
What to play:
Shepherd's Hey (violin)
Long, Long Ago (viola, cello)
Moving Along (bass)
Sheet Music:
Black
Hooked bow
2nd degree Brown Belt
What to play:
Hooked and Staccato scales
Sheet Music:
3rd degree Brown Belt
What to play:
Pop Goes the Weasel
Sheet Music:
Staccato