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Summer Presto (The Four Seasons) Violin Sheet Music & Notes

Composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Year
1723
Key
Gm
Time
3/4
Tempo
138 BPM
Difficulty
Intermediate · ★★★
First note
G4

Summer Presto (The Four Seasons) on violin

The full melody, rendered as engraved treble-clef staff you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

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Antonio Vivaldi, 1723 — public domain.

How to practise this on violin

Summer Presto (The Four Seasons) is written in Gm and opens on G4, so tune that string true before you draw a bow — on a fretless fingerboard the whole piece rides on where your first finger lands. Play the opening phrase slowly, one clean bow-stroke per note, and watch the pitch feedback rather than your hand: the app hears which notes drifted sharp or flat, which is the one thing a mirror can never show you.

Keep the bow parallel to the bridge and draw from the middle third for an even tone. Set the metronome well under around 138 BPM and don't raise it until you've been graded clean on two takes in a row. When a bar comes back red, loop just that bar — intonation improves fastest on the phrase you keep missing, not on replaying the whole piece from the top. By the numbers, this setting runs 322 notes across 31 bars, from G3 up to D6 in 3/4 time.

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