Audio Tracks for Students
Book Playalong Tracks:
Fiddle Time Joggers (Publisher’s website, 3rd edition). This link is for songs only in the 1st and 2nd editions of the book (password protected).
Fiddle Time Runners (Publisher’s website, 3rd edition). This link is for songs only in the 1st and 2nd editions of the book (password protected).
Fiddle Time Sprinters (Publisher’s website)
Fiddle Time Christmas (Publisher’s website)
Practice Aids:
- Use The Syncopated Clock (Leroy Anderson) for straight-bowing exercise. Or, you can practice to the Clock Symphony by Haydn.
- Long Bow Exercises to Ode to Joy: mp (lower strings version) | mf (upper strings version) | f (full orchestra version)
- Learn the pattern of the 12-Bar Blues (sung by NRBQ). Then hear it in Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley) and Barbara Ann (The Beach Boys).
Repertoire Playalong Tracks:
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt 1-all
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt 1-Violin II part (for Violin 1 playalong)
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt1-Violin I part (for Violin 2 playalong)
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt 2-all
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt 2-vln1
Bach Double Violin Concerto-mvt 2-vln2
Bach Prelude for Gounod “Ave Maria”
Elgar: Chanson De Nuit; Chanson De Matin
Pachelbel’s Canon: 1 part with cello and click | 1 part with cello and pizz | 2 parts with cello and pizz
Seitz Concerto 3 Mvt 1 Allegro_risoluto
Vivaldi – Spring – Mvt. 1 – Slow | Slow Accompaniment
Vivaldi – Concerto in Am for Two Violins – mvt. 1 – Combined parts | 1st violin | 2nd violin
Ear Training Helpers
Learn and identify the sound of various musical pitch intervals through these familiar tunes! Or, make your own customized Interval Song Chart here.
Interval | Ascending | Descending |
2nd | Doe A Deer | Mary Had A Little Lamb |
3rd | Hey Jude | Hey Jude |
4th | Here Comes The Bride, Addams Family Theme(scale up) | Taps, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, “Born Free” |
5th | Star Wars Theme (3rd to 4th note), Witch’s Guards March (Wizard of Oz), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | Witches’ Guards March (Wizard of Oz) |
6th | My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean | Anchors Aweigh, last 3 measures |
7th | There’s A Place For Us (West Side Story) | |
8th/octave | Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Close Encounters Theme(middle) |
Suzuki Sequence
Assorted audio files for Suzuki Books 1-4:
Suzuki Book 4:
Seitz Concerto #2, 3rd mvt. (Bk. 4 #1)
Seitz Concerto #2, 3rd mvt., accomp/metronome
Seitz Concerto #5, 1st mvt. (Bk. 4 #2)
Vivaldi A minor Concerto, 1st mvt.
Suzuki Book 3:
Suzuki Book 1:
#13: Minuet #1
#15: Minuet #3
#16: The Happy Farmer
#14: Minuet #2
#17: Gavotte (Gossec)