String Orchestra

This is an illustrated, highly detailed, set of six major scales for all instruments in a string orchestra. Each note of every major scale has a clear finger chart with the most common fingerings of every note. These six major scales are so valuable for your orchestra students to learn, because they can develop a visual understanding of scales and key signatures, which of course makes reading and performing music that much more intuitive for your students!

I use these with my middle school orchestras, and it is so valuable to refer back to these whenever I want them to master a key signature or scale. They never have to ask me for fingerings, because every single note is illustrated for every instrument! These scales are ascending and descending, and include arpeggios. Each scale has all finger positions written under each note, as well as a “cheat sheet” for each instrument with a visual representation of all six scales. See the preview for more information.

Included in this resource (24 pages total):

Major scales for each orchestra instrument: violin, viola, cello and double bass. Six common major scales: A, D, G, C, F and Bb Major, ascending and descending with arpeggios. Finger placements are written under each note. The full conductor score and individual parts are included.

Also included are four finger charts for all instruments for both first and third positions.

Also included are “cheat sheets” for all four instruments with a visual representation on a finger chart of all six major scales. See the preview for more information for what this looks like.

I hope you find this resource as valuable as I have!

In this resource, you will find 60 different rhythm reading exercises in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 time signatures. These are perfect for warm-ups, or rhythm reinforcement to practice specific rhythmic ideas in concert band, orchestra or choir. These rhythms are progressive, so they build off of one another and are more complex as they go. These exercises are perfect to keep in students’ binders/music folders so you can refer back to them as warm-ups or practices.

They have everything from whole notes and half notes to tied and dotted notes, or eighth and sixteenth notes. These rhythms work best in a middle school band, orchestra or choir class. I have them in my middle school students’ binders, and we refer back to them when we need to practice 4/4 time rhythms.