Media Type : Book+CD+DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 80 Designed for beginning fiddle students, these 36 lessons present basic techniques by applying them to fiddle tunes. Reading music is unnecessary, as the lessons are explained step by step, and fingerings are given for every note. Each version builds on the previous one and helps students to create their own arrangements. Includes a split- track CD. Forty-eight songs from the book are on the CD. The DVD with this set is designed to complement the first 17 lessons of the You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling text. Covers tuning, holding the fiddle and bow, left-hand position, basic A, D, and G scales, shuffle bowing, slurs, double stops, and many tunes, including Liza Jane, Shortening Bread, Going to Boston, and Bile Them Cabbage Down.

Media Type : Book+DVD Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : Bluegrass Number of pages : 56 Wow your audience with four dozen pro techniques and three sizzling tunes to show them off (including The Devil Went Down to Georgia), with this 4-hour 2-DVD set. A lifetime course for the price of one lesson! Intermediate to advanced; for fiddle or classical cross-over players. Includes: --Interactive-Study what you want, when you want --Lots of flashy techniques - a lesson devoted to each --Friendly, measure-by-measure tune instruction - hear, see, play along --Play-alongs in both slow and performance tempos --Easy and Hot versions of each tune, with interchangeable licks --Fun practice lick for each technique --Book contains all the music on the DVD

Media : Book/CD/DVDAuthor : by Craig DuncanLevel : BeginningDate published : 1/11/2005Style : All StylesType : MethodsDescription :This text presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. The companion CD and DVD feature all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment.? Uses melodies and pieces to introduce technique and fundamentals.? Includes scales in A, D, G, and C; slurs, accents, and staccato bowing.? 47 melodies, including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and more.? Companion CD and DVD contains all exercises and pieces.