Strings Yellow Award

Welcome to the resources for Strings Yellow Award.

We regularly update our pages with new resources, so watch this space! 

My Yellow Award Checklist

Click here for a checklist to track your progress through Yellow Award.

Click here for a parent and student guide to the Yellow Award

My Yellow Award Exercises

• Introduction to slurs (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello | click here for double bass);
• Improvisation challenge (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello);
• What does tempo mean? (click here for all instruments);
• What does articulation mean? (click here for all instruments);
• Compound time signatures, ties and dotted notes (click here for all instruments);
• Sharps and naturals (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello);
• Work out a simple tune by ear – challenge (click here for violin I click here for viola I click here for cello);
• Work out a simple tune by ear – answers (click here for violin I click here for viola I click here for cello);
• Click here for the mega yellow cello quiz!;
• Click here for Narrow or wide 2nd finger? Ending the violinist’s confusion!;
• Click here for Narrow or wide 2nd finger? Ending the violist’s confusion!;
• Click here for 2nd or 3rd finger? Ending the cellist’s confusion!.

My Yellow Award Pieces

• Galician Jig (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello);
• Skipping Dance (click here for violin | click here for cello);
• Dolan’s Pub (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello | click here for double bass);
• Bells in the Steeple (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello);
• Miss Mary Mac (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello | click here for double bass);
• Once A Man (click here for violin | click here for viola | click here for cello | click here for double bass);
• Spring Song (click here for violin I click here for viola );
• White Cliffs of Dover (click here for violin I click here for viola I click here for cello);
• Click here for March of the Clowns for Violin (and click here for March of the Clowns audio track);
• Click here for Raindrop Lullaby for Violin (and click here for Raindrop Lullaby audio track);
• Click here for traditional pieces for cello;
• Click here for traditional pieces for double bass.