Weekly Tips and Tricks

{Push Out the Lips when Singing}
Until your voice gets to a certain maturity and often throughout your entire singing career, you want to push out the lips. A way to do this is think of Sebastian in the Little Mermaid! {Lindsey Stirling for the Violin} Lindsey Stirling is amazing and really fun to watch. Check out her videos and see some of the fun music you can play (and dance to :) ) when you learn how to play a instrument!
{Violin Fingering} I found an amazing site that shows where to put your fingering on the violin and each of the notes sound.  Check it out, love, love, love this site!
Fingering Chart for the Violin

{How to Warm Up Your Voice} 1) First have healthy diet and drink LOTS of water. Citrus food will iritate the vocal chords.  2) Get lots of rest before you sing. If you are going to be singing in the morning, make sure that you wake up two hours before you sing.  3) Do stretches from head to toe.  4) Practice vocal warm ups going from high to low and low to high.  5) When practicing your song, record your voice. This way you'll be able to know where to fix the song. {Chewing gum helps reduces stress}

Chewing gum is a quick and easy way to relieve stress while playing any instrument.  If your child is feeling stressed on any given practice, I suggest giving it a try! Check out this site for more information: How chewing gum resolves stress

{A song to learn the letters on the lines and spaces of the bass clef.}