link to You Tube Channel for Lockdown alone together videos

Ibi also offers online lessons: email

Lockdown Early Music Backing Tracks
link to website

Tutorial Videos

Jo Levine: bow exercise and string crossing exercise
Sam Stadlen: video on bow hold

link to website

Alison Crum has made a series of short videos on various aspects of viol technique. These include all the basics a beginner might need, such as holding all sizes of viol and holding the bow, but also more detail on such vital things as starting a note, changing bow direction, correcting faults, etc.

You Tube videos
www.alisoncrum.co.uk (new website now up!)
alison@alisoncrum.co.uk

Play along tracks
David is producing multi track audio files to which you can play along. The format is mp3, pitch is A440, with a click count-in. All the pieces were recorded on Richard Jones' viols but they work perfectly well to play with on Jacobean viols too. The pieces are taken from David's recent edition of a manuscript of German street songs from the early 16c, which he describes as 'direct, earthy repertoire'. With each purchase you receive a link to a downloadable folder containing the score, a complete performance of the piece, and four other files, each with a part missing.

Each piece is £4 and you can view the catalogue on David's website.

Email: djhatcher@icloud.com

YouTube
Bowrobics 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRRD30JITas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3P2iA1Et2E

Divisions 1, 2 and 3 - using 'A La Dolce Ombra' by Cipriano de Rore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2213i1QUWfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho18QecrnG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxumBKOyrq8

A series of videos introducing familiar and less familiar composers. Ali plays the pieces (copies can be downloaded) and explains the technical points along the way, e.g. No 1 - Edward Keene (treble).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cIoHfXbu5E

The other videos can be found easily on YouTube from this link. Composers include Tobias Hume (bass), James Paisible (tenor), Abel (bass), Boismortier (tenor), Gastoldi (tenor/treble duos).

Ali also has a Patreon subscription (3 tiers) if you would like to help her make more videos. The second and third tiers gain access to The Clinic videos on specific aspects of viol playing with the top tier allowing you to request a tutorial video on a particular subject.

YouTube & website
Multi-track videos of music by Holborne, Dowland, Gibbons and Lupo for viol players to listen to or play along with:
https://www.folkestoneearlymusic.com/viols-at-home
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asakoviol

Tool to play together apart
The viol consort - ORLANDOviols based in North Germany - uses a tool, the Consort Box, developed by their member Giso Grimm which makes it possible to play together with beautiful sound and very little delay. They use these times for playing together nearly daily. It's very inspiring, and they would like to share it with the viol community.

This box is completely built upon open source software and open or standardized hardware. So if you get the hardware components (a small computer: Raspberry Pi 3B+, a sound card, a microphone, headphones, cables) you are welcome to use the software published here: link to website

You probably will need a computer freak, who helps you, but it is worth the effort! OrlandoViols are happy to help with more information if needed.

Susanna Pell is offering online tuition via a bespoke service which includes video exchanges and music minus one tracks. She also has an ever growing library of 'play along' recordings aimed at experienced players called Come Joyne Me. If you'd like further information contact her at susanna.pell@gmail.com.

YouTube - link to YouTube

Jacqui Robertson-Wade has devised a 'Technical Syllabus', based on teaching viols in schools over a period of 18 years, which helps players to find the most appropriate lesson for their ability, within the range of lessons now being offered online.

Progressive Viol Lessons consist of five different levels: Elementary, Lower Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate and Advanced and each level has 10 points of technique associated with it.

You can also search the page by repertoire if you want to learn a specific piece of music. Or choose your teacher: Alison Kinder, Sam Stadlen or Jacqui Robertson-Wade.

The page is currently under construction and will be ready soon: https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/progressive-viol-lessons/

YouTube videos
How to Refret a Viol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l22ykfZbqHQ&t=6s
Forqueray's Principles of Bowing and Ping Bowing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwEogbx7kxY
Coming soon: How to replace a string; Lawes treble lesson; Couperin bass lesson; Elementary lessons from the start for treble, tenor and bass viols

Consort Minus One - The Virtual Viol Consort Project

YouTube
link to YouTube

Some videos are free to view, including 10 tutorials on various technical issues of viol-playing (bow-hold, articulation, left-hand position, etc).

Sam also provides a Netflix-like service through his Patreon account. For a monthly £15 subscription, you can stream videos and audio files of viol music (both consort and baroque) which are missing individual parts so you can play along. Each piece has a recording for each missing instrument and all pieces are available at both A415Hz and A440Hz. Scores and parts are provided. A lower, £3 subscription tier helps Sam make more video content but does not grant access to the recordings.

A Tier 2 subscription entitles you to request either one tutorial video on a subject of your choice or one viol-based 'music-minus-1' video per month. There are currently 38 music-minus-1 pieces available across 20 composers including Jenkins, Gibbons, Dowland, Lawes, and Nicolai. New pieces are being added frequently. These range from duets to six part consort music (including Ferrabosco's Fantasia 'Di Sei Bassi') and a section for beginner viol players.

More details: https://www.patreon.com/samstadlen/