SCALES and FINGERING CHARTS FOR BEGINNING ORCHESTRA

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http://www.antioch34.com/webpages/dband/index.cfm?subpage=1173506

VIOLIN SCALES

Botero: Still Life With Violin

VIOLIN FINGERING CHART

VIOLA SCALES

The Viola Player by Thomas Hart Benton

VIOLA FINGERING CHART

http://www.get-tuned.com/viola.php

Degas; The Violist (L'Altiste), 1880

CELLO SCALES

Modigliani: The Cellist II

CELLO FINGERING CHART

http://ishideas.blogspot.com/2010/09/cello-playing-for-beginners-brief.html

DOUBLE BASS SCALES

http://electricdaybook.blogspot.com/

Louis Marcoussis: Interior with a Double Bass 1929

DOUBLE BASS FINGERING CHART

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-52761/Double-bass-and-bow

Woman with a Double Bass by Suzanne Valadon, 1908

GUITAR SCALES

"The Guitar Player " by Vermeer

GUITAR CHORD CHART

http://www.flupe.com/lessons/freeLessons/01_foundationLessons/
L02_MajorScale_1/major_scale_01.htm

http://www.guitar-skill-builder.com/guitar-fretboard.html

FLUTE SCALES

"The Young Flute Player" by Judith Leyster

FLUTE FINGERING CHART

Bb CLARINET SCALES

Pablo Picasso:  Still Life with a Clarinet on a Table, 1911

Bb CLARINET FINGERING CHART

SAXOPHONE SCALES

Adolphe Sax: inventor of the Saxophone (1814-1894)

SAXOPHONE FINGERING CHART

Bb TRUMPET SCALES

Michelangelo: Angels and Trumpets

Bb TRUMPET FINGERING CHART

TROMBONE-BARITONE SCALES

TROMBONE SLIDE POSITION CHART

BARITONE FINGERING CHART

PERCUSSION SCALES

TRANSPOSITION

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/madduci/3A/3A.htm

TRANSPOSITION CHART

A POEM ABOUT
DOUBLE BASS INSTRUMENTS

http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/stevereads/2010/05/people-of-note/

The men who have the saddest faces

Are those who play the Double Basses

Though deep in misery their cup

They have to take it standing up,

And sawing on a clothesline string

They grunt and groan like anything.

The orchestra’s last-line defense

They also see the audience

And, spying in the distant offing,

They spot the man who does the coughing –

The school girl in expectant dither –

The wife who dragged her husband with her –

The novice groping in a maze –

The critic whittling out a phrase –

And those who sleep – and those who snore

Which makes them groan and grunt some more.