Alternative styles clinics for string teachers and college students

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Clinic Descriptions: String Alternatives: Fiddling, Jazz, Improvisation and Mariachi
Hear from one of the pioneers! Sessions illustrate the uses and fun of alternative styles in building technique, meeting the national standards, running an alternative music ensemble and building bigger and better programs at every level using fiddling and all the other styles.

Using Fiddling and Jazz in Orchestra to Build Technique
Highly motivational, great fun but also can be used to reinforce and build technique. Learn how to implement alternative styles within your curriculum.

Fiddling at First
Using super simple fiddle tunes in the two years of instruction to motivate and educate. Great ideas to use both within the curriculum and without.

Forming and Running a Fiddle Group/Alt Styles Ensemble
How to create a fiddle/jazz/mariachi ensemble at any level. The details of teaching, organizing and running an ensemble will be covered with a touch of information about sound systems as well.

Swingin’ Fiddles: Fun, Fundamentals and Fusion
Crossing over styles and the paper barrier. Fiddling, jazz, mariachi and more in the string orchestra. What makes the styles different, what makes them the same and how do you use them to develop technique, improve listening skills and build morale.

Shall We Dance? Energizing the Right Arm Using Alternative Styles of Music!
Encourage younger string students to develop bows that dance with fiddling, jazz, mariachi and other alternative styles. Develop students who play rhythmically and with energy while using the entire bow. Strategies and tips that develop energized, aggressive right arms through the use of alternative styles.

String Fiesta
A musical party for your string orchestra with the music of the Mariachi. Fire up your chin and floor fiddles with musical flavors from south of the border while encouraging cross-cultural interest in strings.

Giant leaps, simple steps: improvisation made easy for orchestras
Improvisation made simple for teachers who are totally paper-trained. How to implement this national standard in a way that will create enthusiasm and musical skills in your developing string players. Elements of jazz style included!

Download tunes for simple square dances.