Is this the right workshop for me?

We know that it can be difficult to decide if a workshop is right for you.

To help you make the decision, here are two examples of music of the kind you’ll encounter in this workshop. One example is written and the other is an audio recording. Most of the time in this workshop we’ll be working with written music, with some work by ear as well.

Bapolyer Freylekhs in C
Bapolyer Freylekhs in Bb
Bapolyer Freylekhs in Eb
Bapolyer Freylekhs für Cello und Bass

There are versions of this for C, Bb, Eb and bass clef instruments. Please choose the one that’s right for your instrument and try a few times to play it.

Audio recording

Please  listen to the example once through. Then listen again, stop it whenever you need to, try to sing what you just heard, and then try to play what you’ve just sung. You can also use an app that slows down the music if you like. The goal is to gradually be able to play at least the first section of this piece.

How did it go?  In this particular workshop, good music reading skills are quite important because of the amount of repertoire we’ll cover. So if you found the written example easy enough but the audio example difficult, that’s not a problem. When teaching without written music, the teachers are experts at making the learning process easier. If, on the other hand, the audio example was easy for you but the written example was difficult, you can still participate in this workshop but you might find the pace to be quite fast.