The VIOLIN PLAY-ALONG-Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyricsincluded in the book, you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac

The Essential String Method offers a comprehensive and entertaining guide to playing string instruments affiliated to the Guildhall School Of Music. Violin Book 2 continues building upon the lessons of book one with games exercises pieces and ideas that explore the next stage of Violin playing. You'll find sections covering:Rhythm gamesBowing exercisesLots of new notesLeft and right hand techniquesBow liftingComposingSlurs and legatoConcert solos and duetsActivities pages that will help you discover more about music itself!

In A New Approach To Violin Playing-A comprehensive and thorough book written by the former child prodigy. Each aspect of violin playing is broken down into tiny steps. A useful book for the beginner and advcanced player alike.

Music of Spain and South America for Violin by Allan Alexander contains 44 pieces which can be played solo or with a chord instrument. This great collection includes music from the Spain and South America. Most of the pieces have been extended with variations which make the tunes a more suitable length for performances and are a lot of fun for the violinist to play. Every tune in the book is included on the digitally mastered CD. Though the tunes are very effective as solo material Allan chose to record them with violinist Elena Rojas. Elena has given a skillful delightful performance of the music and Allan has rendered the chords artfully. The result is a reallylovely CD; listening will be a pleasure. For the player who is new to music of Spain and South America the recording will give insights into the melodies and it will allow the violinist who has no access to a chord instrument to hear and play along with the guitar as the violin part can be turned down by fading one channel. For those who know some of these wonderful tunes it will be a joy to have the music and hear them played by two musicians who obviously love to play this music together. The CD which comes with the book has all 44 of the tunes in the same order in which they appear in the book. The CD will give you insights into the music and it will be enjoyable to listen to on its own merit. For additional information be sure to check out Allan's web site.

The ideal method to gain confidence and develop you very first Violin repertoire. Strings In Step is packed with exercises and short pieces that offer an interesting and fun way of learning your first Violin pieces. The book is complete with a CD featuring performances of all examples with piano accompaniments and some additional backing.

The most important aspect of the violin method 'Die fröhliche Violine' is the fun of learning to play the violin: The textbook is aimed at an early playful beginning with the instrument. Over the course of the lessons, the pupils are deliberately addressed in a language that corresponds to their age. Furthermore, the method provides a stylistically varied range of classical and folkloristic instrumental pieces, and always gives a lot of interesting information on the music and its composers.

An Introduction to Folk Styles Technique and Improvisation-* This in-depth tutor book from renowned fiddle player and teacher Chris Haigh is perfect for classical violinists and fiddle players looking to master the art. * Covering all aspects of folk violin technique from ornamentation to modes and scales and from scordatura to improvisation and composition. * The book is centred around Irish traditional music but also dips into English Scottish Scandinavian East European Klezmer Cajun and American Old-Time traditions. * Accompanied by a CD of all pieces performed by Chris Haigh with a live backing band. Folk fiddle and classical violin are as different as chalk and cheese. At first glance folk might seem so simpleit?s hardly worth bothering with. The tunes are often no more than 32 bars long they stay in first position and they don?t even have a composer. However it?s what?s NOT written on the page that makes folk fiddle so interesting and challenging.This book attempts to explore from general observation down to the finest detail what the fiddler needs to know to bring these tunes alive. We need to understand their history and context their purpose their structure and pulse. And we need to be able to add all the stylistic elements that come not from reading the music but from years of immersion in folk music both listening and playing.Key areas covered include:* Tune types and structures * Ornamentation * Bowing * Modes and scales * Scordatura * Starts endings and links * Variation improvisation and composition Playing tunes in ?sets? * Regional and individual style * Playing in sessions for contests and for dancing

A second book of easy pieces for violin-Fiddle Time Runners follows Fiddle Time Joggers providing a further collection of easy pieces for Violin. Packed with lively original tunes well-known pieces and easy duets the Fiddle Time series is carefully paced and organized to build confidence every step of the way. The new editions contain all your favourite pieces from the previous books back by popular demand. fantastic new cover illustrations by Martin Remphry new colour cartoons throughout Joggers and Runners a modern fresh design exciting new play-along CDs for Joggers and Runners with multi-instrumental backings and otherimprovements additional 'practice speed' (slower) play-along tracks

Twenty Four Caprices for the violin by Pierre Rode a study version prepared in accordance with modern violin technique and provided with a preface by Harold Berkley.

Étude Méthodique des positions – 1er cahier was created by Maurice Hauchard (1870-1957) a French violinist composer and music teacher. This is the first in a series of four constituting a renowned progressive method for beginners/intermediate violinists to learn the different positions. Étude Méthodique des positions – 1er cahier particularly offers methods and exercises to master the third position in violin. The quality and the efficiency of Maurice Hauchard’s methods make this book a key series to have for a Violin player. In addition tothese series the composer also created nine additional methods for strings.

2ème cahier - II - III - IV - V positions-Étude Méthodique De La Double-Corde - 2e Cahier was created by Maurice Hauchard (1870-1957) a French violinist composer and music teacher. Second book of this series studying the technique of the Double-String for upper beginners / intermediate violinists this volume focuses on the second third fourth and fifth positions. Étude Méthodique De La Double-Corde - 2e Cahier is divided into 84 small studies that enable players to master the Double-String in Violin. The quality and the efficiency of Maurice Hauchard’s methods make this book a key seriesto have for a Violin player.

There is no shortage of books on how to play the violin but the aim of Robert Gerle one of America's most distinguished teachers and soloists is specifically to suggest ways of planning a violin student's practice. The hints given by the author will in many cases be useful for all string players particularly on sight-reading and memorizing.