My Note Value Pages

Here are two pages with the note values. Use these to learn and practice these important note lengths. Once you've learned these note values, you'll be ready to start learning rhythm. Young students should memorize all these values, but only need to learn to play rhythmically, the whole note, half note, quarter notes, and eighth note. I hope these to pages are helpful!

Music Note Values

Part of learning how to play the violin is learning when to play long and short notes. This notation is important in making the rhythm of the song you are playing. When we refer to counts or beats that a note gets, think about a steady beat (like from a clock). If a note get 4 beats, it would be one note held for 4 ticks on the clock. When you're playing a song and have a note that gets 4 beats, you are not going to count 4 seconds (like on the clock) but 4 steady counts. Different songs have different speeds, but to understand and learn the counts of a specific note, keep thinking about the clock ticks. 

Once you've learned all the note values you can have in a song or piece of music, you can start to learn how to play them by doing rhythm exercises. You'll play only one note, but play notes that are short and long by following the music. 

Most beginner violin books have some rhythm exercises and they also introduce the different note values gradually. For my adults or more advanced students, I use this book I had in college called "Studying Rhythm" by Anne Carothers Hall (2nd edition). This book starts out with simple rhythm and then adds something different in each lesson. Clapping and counting the rhythm with this book is a great way to really develop your rhythmic skills.

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More Notes to Learn for the Violin

Today, I'm showing you the pages, to learning how to read music, for the notes above and below the staff. The first page shows you the note names and the second is for practicing. The third page shows you all the notes as they go from the bottom G, which is the lowest note, up to a high B. These are the basic notes used until you get more advanced. The third page also shows you, that as you go up one note at a time, you go up the alphabet one letter at a time. Practice the notes on that page. Once you have those notes practiced, you are ready to begin learning those notes on the violin.

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My Music Reading Sheets for Violin

In my last post, I noted that learning to read music is one of the first steps to learning to play the violin. Below , I've posted two pages that can help you begin. They give you important information about beginning to read music, the notes located on the staff, and a practice section on the page. You can print these off so you can practice those notes when ever you can. There are more notes to learn - below and above the staff. I will post those pages another time.  

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Learning to Read Music

Learning how to read music is one of the first steps in learning how to play the violin. 

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Tuning Your Violin

Learning how to tune your violin takes time and training. Some people tend to think that they are tone deaf, which may not be true. Some of us just need a little more time to learn and develop our ears to hear correctly. Tuning the violin is very hard at first, but with time, it becomes easier. If you are a beginner violinist, you'll have to determine the best way for you to tune the violin (pitch pipe, tuning fork, piano, or electronic tuner). If you have all four fine tuners on your violin, tuning will be easier. If you don't you'll need to learn the technique for adjusting the pegs. The pegs are slightly slanted so that when you push them in the peg hole, the wood becomes tighter in the hole and creates friction so the peg doesn't move. You don't want to force the peg too much into the hole, because the wood expands and contracts with temperature and humidity, so when you go to tune your violin the peg may be stuck. If the peg is not pushed in while turning it, the peg will be too loose and will go out of tune right away.

The video below explains all this again and then goes into detail about the pitches of the string and how to tell when it's in tune. It may be a little hard to hear the pitches of the strings as they are out of tune and then come together and are in tune. Play this on your violin following this video to really hear what she means. You should always tune your violin before playing. If you tune your violin, and it seems to stay in tune, don't change the string just to change it. If it's correct leave it. In this video, it may look like you must loosen each string when you go to tune your violin. She is correct in that you need to bring the pitch down before bringing it up to the correct pitch. You could bring the pitch up and then bring it back down if you are having trouble hearing it from the other way.

If you have an electric tuner, try tuning it by ear first, then check it with the electronic tuner. That way you're still training your ear. By checking the pitches again with the electronic tuner, you can see where you were off and try harder to get it correct the next time. 

Again, this may take some time to learn. I hope this information is helpful.