Blackwell: Viola Time Scales: Viola: Instrumental Tutor

Viola Time Scales is brimming over with creative ideas to make learning scales and arpeggios easy, covering the finger patterns used in Viola Time Joggers and Runners, and including all the scales and arpeggios for ABRSM Grades 1 and 2.

The Viola Time Student Pack is a great starter bundle for all young Viola players. Each pack provides a book of lively tunes and well-known pieces everything you need to make learning scales and arpeggios fun a notebook with alternate plain and manuscript pages for lesson notes and a pack of entertaining cartoon stickers.

# Open string pieces and tunes using the finger pattern 0-1-34
# Quality original pieces from rock to calypso
# Careful introduction of new notes and rhythms
# Simple slurs and dynamics
# Easy duets
# Scales and arpeggios in the keys of G, D, and C major, one octave
# CD with performances of all the pieces to play along to - jazz and rock numbers add drumkit
# Book of straightforward piano accompaniments available
32 pages
25 July 2002
Kathy Blackwell and David Blackwell
Kathy Blackwell is an experienced peripatetic string teacher, currently teaching privately after many years working for Oxfordshire County Council. She has a special interest in teaching the violin and viola to young children, both individually and in groups. Her determination to find the very best pieces - well written and accessible, tuneful and catchy - led directly to the creation of the Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time series.
David Blackwell has worked in publishing for Oxford University Press and ABRSM. He has conducted both adult and children's choirs, and published several fine choral arrangements. He has contributed pieces to several instrumental tutor books as well as co-writing Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time.