subject: Learning Violin with Help from Flashcards [print this page] As a violin instructor, you must have witnessed several students unable to read the notes. While one could expect this to be limited to novice only, learners from advanced and intermediate levels also often struggle to read music notes.
While ability to read notes early is crucial to the success in learning violin, the question of how to teach students the skill is bound to arise. One way to achieve this is by using music flashcards. Ideally, a music flashcard must teach the student both note names as also where the notes are positioned on the violin. However, learners often find this a tedious and quite boring task. One way for making music flashcards more interesting is by using those that are colorful and the ones that consist of pictures which are not connected to note reading. It's important to use the music flashcards frequently, since at the beginning, students would often count the spaced and bar lines rather than recognize a note at a glance. However, while practicing, music usually progresses fast for this technique to deliver its goods.
In fact, it certainly makes sense why a student would learn reading finger numbers as against notes while beginning to learn violin. Needless to say, this is enough for reading the first position. Thus, it could be quite difficult for a teacher to realize that students are not reading the notes until they learn new positions.
While music flashcards are especially helpful to beginners who are just taking up learning the violin, they undoubtedly prove handy at the later stages when the student reaches the intermediate stage. As one of the main functions of a music flashcard is to provide apt inputs to students while learning music, it could also be used for jotting down the finer points while playing violin.
