Prerequisites

• An ability to adjust intonation with accuracy.
   
• A comfortable ability to shift to and play in 1st through 4th position (violin, viola, cello), and half through 4th position (bass).
   
• A degree of familiarity with higher positions.
   
• An ability to perform most major scales in three octaves with accuracy of intonation.
   
• An ability to maintain a consistent inner pulse.
   
• Increased dynamic dimension with nuanced dynamics to include ppp through fff
   
• An ability to change tonal color.
    
• An ability to blend with others.
   
• An understanding of rhythms including whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, dotted eighth and sixteenth notes and rests; syncopated and triplet figures; 6/8 meter.