Strings: Prima Strings

Prerequisites

 

    • Proficient in positioning the instrument and bow.
    • Ability to identifying fingerings and note names for the pitches on the staff. 
    • Comfortable with meters including 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 
    • Proficiency in first position including accidentals (eg: high/low 2, High 3, low 1 and 4th finger). 
    • Familiarity with common note and rest values including whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth. Dotted rhythms are also included. 
    • Slurred and separate bows. May include double-up or double-down bows. 
    • Familiarity with basic articulation marks of accents, staccato, and pizzicato. 
    • Level of playing is equivalent to completion of Suzuki Book 2 – 3 and above.