Inshore Fiddling
 
The Teachers Manual contains detailed indexes of the CDS, suggestions for class assignments, alternative order of presentation, advice on teaching the tunes, video clips, advice on starting and building your program, information about instruments and sizes, teaching and motivational ideas, games, and handouts. Video Clips Placing the Fiddle Making a Bowhold Placing your Thumb on the Bowstick Left Hand Position on a Pen Left Hand Position on the Fiddle. Handouts Printable PDF chart of each of the tunes to be learned, with solfegge, rhythm syllables. fingering, lyrics, and note names. Printable PDF practice chart which can be individualized for each student if necessary. LOOSEN YOUR BOW sign to put in each students case. How to set up a fiddle program Advice on instrument sizes, keeping the instruments in shape, emergency repairs, shoulder rests, working with parents, Teaching ideas and games Tried and tested motivational “teach-niques” to get the kids to do what you want them to. For example - to get them to play with straight bows, play Mounties Teach the class how to do a siren on the fiddle. (slide a finger up and then down the A string, while bowing). All hands will enthusiastically learn how. It is a good exercise which encourages freedom in the left hand. Then assign one or more students to be ‘Mounties.’ While the others play, doing their best to keep the bow on the ‘highway’ the Mounties observe, and if a bow travels too far towards the fingerboard, the Mountie makes a siren. Alternatively, the teacher can be the Mountie, making the siren in front of the student with a faulty contact point. The class ‘wins’ if the Mountie has not been successful in giving anyone a ‘ticket.’
THe Teachers Manual