Violin Viola Cello Bass

Our strings students come to us to prepare for all-state competitions, supplement their orchestra classes, or to learn how to play a string instrument on their own.

All strings teachers customize lessons to individual student abilities and goals.

Beginner lessons focus on proper technique, arm position, and form to set good posture habits from the start. Lessons progress to include double stops, hand articulation, shifting, trills, and vibrato.

Our string teachers incorporate a variety of string pedagogy methods including Paul Rolland and Suzuki methods.

Weekly lessons include: ear training, note reading, scales, etudes/technique, repertoire, recital/performance preparation.

Students receive positive encouragement during weekly lessons and custom practice assignments to build skills between lessons at home. When all the hard work pays off, there’s no better feeling.

Upright Bass

We use F. Rabbath’s Progressive Repertoire for the Double Bass. The student will be taught how to hold the instrument correctly, how to hold the bow, different styles of pizzicato, different names for the parts of the instrument, how to tune, how to produce a good tone, and much more. We incorporate improvisational, music theory and basics of music harmony. 

Electric Bass

We use Roger Filiberto‘s Electric Bass Method

The most widely-used introductory bass method available! Both Volumes I and II present a standard notation approach to reading solo and arpeggio studies for four string bass. Included in Volume I are the rudiments of playing, plus handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, and seventh chords, plus upper harmonic extensions. 

Volume II continues with studies, scales, walking bass patterns, and more. Presents note reading, solo playing, and chord arpeggio studies. Included are handy charts of arpeggios featuring major, minor, augmented, diminished, seventh chords, and even upper harmonic extensions. 

 Applicable to any style of music, this method has gained acceptance as the foundational text for electric bass study world-wide.

 We use Suzuki String Quartets for Beginning Ensemble Volume 1 book.

We use Suzuki String Quartets  Ensemble Volume 2 book.