HAPPY SCALES 🎵

We started our YouTube Channel with the intention to pass along the fun of learning a scale while playing or jamming (creating, developing) the melody in the 2nd voice, aka the harmony part as is presented in the example below: 

https://youtu.be/ca7L4wgexQk - D MAJOR (D-dur) Scale 🎵 Violin Duet | 1 Octave [1-12] | LIVE Violin.

Our extensive work on this concept nurtured the following Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlYLwVJgyUPOflqabuPHeAESFiKoLeiCE.

In time, we'll convert it into the real course, but we'd love to keep it light and playful.

On the way we realized the need for play-along videos of violin scales, so violin students could have an easier, more fun time to practice.

On other hand, music teachers of some schools also requested scale sheets with professional notes.

Specific instructions like "1st finger closer to 2nd" are informal teaching notes meant to guide intonation and hand shape, which are usually not part of standard published sheet music but rather added as a form of "markup" by a teacher.

Here are the examples of scales with such markups:  

D-Major Scale, 2 Octaves: https://youtu.be/hr-0u2VjtBU

D-Minor Scale with drumming metronome, 2 Octaves: https://youtu.be/NYcqR09ZGQQ

Recently, YouTube suggested to convert some playlists to violin courses.

We like the suggestion and working on the gradual future courses of Happy Scales for Duo.

Few courses are already posted here:   https://www.youtube.com/@HappyScalesforDuo/courses

Do you like them?

My violin professor taught me that the teacher has to play with the students from the first lesson together. Why?

The students play an open string on their violins, and the teachers play the melody on their violins. The resulting sound gives the students a feeling that they may play beautifully.

It stimulates the student to play again and again. She/he becomes eager to know more and more. 

The Suzuki method involves playing Twinkle variations with the syllables, and students respond very well to phrases such as "I am ve-ry hap-py."

On the other hand, scales are inseparable while learning to play the violin. You must play scales to develop intonation, rhythm counting habits, and bowing techniques.

The best violin teachers discovered how to make scale playing a more pleasurable experience by playing and creating violin duets based on scales. It is much more fun playing scales together.

You may find many duo scales on our channel. 

https://sites.google.com/view/hs4duo-preserve/about, on the bottom.