Resources and Documents

Below are individual PDF files of a sampling of lesson plans, unit plans, and other educational materials.

Referenced in the Progressive Curriculum, the finger patterns to the seen here are used as a way to quickly teach appropriate hand-frame and basic string mechanics. The idea is based off of Bornoff's research, which stated that humans learn things like digits of phone numbers and note-names in clusters, developing associations and patterns that we later use to remember increasingly longer strings of information.

As students become more advanced in their abilities to play varying chromatic pitches, shifting into position becomes an option for challenging your students. While cellos and basses at the secondary level (seen below) are already shifting, violins and violas can be introduced to positions 1/2-IV by having them shift to first finger on every half-step.

Pattern I - III position

Pattern II - II Position

Pattern III - 1/2 Position

Pattern IV - IV Position