A lot of things have been happening down in Devon recently – and especially for Exeter Young Strings. As well as getting those grants I talked about in my last blog they now have a lovely new website at www.exeteryoungstrings.org.
Do go and have a look, and see what they do.
BTW If you are a young aspiring cello, viola, violin or bass player in the Exeter area, then you could do no better then join!
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on transferring the Cellobabies method over to Violin.
It was very easy at the beginning but I needed to do a rethink about how to build up the reading skills, bearing in mind that the violin uses a different clef and has an ‘E’ string. Anyway, I whizzed my ideas past my daughter’s violin teacher yesterday and got a thumbs up, which was really encouraging. I think I’m past the most difficult part of the adaptation and the rest should be plain sailing (I hope!) from now on.
I’ve started 3 more Cellobabies off during the past 2 weeks. I was really tickled when one of them said at her second lesson, ‘Please can we sing ‘Kippers & Custard’?’ Judging by the popularity of this song with Cellobabies past & present, I reckon I would have a No.1 hit with this song, were there a Pre-schooler’s music chart.
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