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Here is the call and response exercise for page 15 of Violinworks Book 2.

• Listen to the audio track below and sing, then play, each group of four notes as an echo in the gap (you’ll hear a metronome click in the gaps to help you stay in time).
• There is a gap at the beginning to allow time for you to get ready to play, then you’ll hear four metronome clicks before the first phrase starts.
• Each phrase is four notes long, and there are four phrases on each string.
• The first phrase starts on 1st-finger B on the A string.
• The aim of this exercise is to improve your ear and your intonation. Don’t worry if it takes you a while to work out the notes to start with – the more you practise this kind of exercise the better you will get at recognising the sounds.