Viola Scales And Arpeggios Book 1 Grades 1 - 5 - Abrsm

The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the 'mother-tongue' approach. Now available as book and CD kit. / Alto

Scales and scale studies for the viola-This is a scale book of unprecedented scope. Simon Fischer has developed an entirely new method in which using the traditional ways of practising scales only as a point of departure he focuses on numerous often-neglected aspects of the Violist’s technique. For every element he has designed exercises that sensitize the ear stimulate the mind and build the playing apparatus of the Violist. The many outstanding features of this book include: how to structure intonation around perfect intervals and leading notes a new approach to learning how to time shifts extensive notation for preparing and holding down fingersone- two- three- and four-octave scales and arpeggios two-octave scales and arpeggios on one string new sequences for single-finger scales Many well-known Fischer classics are also incorporated including practice methods for intonation smooth bowing string crossing fast fingers fourth-finger extensions and placing fingers in blocks. The innovative and wide-ranging material in Scales keeps the player turning the pages discovering yet more exciting ways to approach scales. The wealth of thought-provoking exercises encourages Violists to re-evaluate their practice – developing the playing skills of Violists at all levels from intermediate to professional.

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.

* Pieces using 2nd finger * Pieces using backward and forward extensions * A range of styles from folk to jazz * Semi-quavers, dotted crotchets, and 6/8 time * Duets with parts of equal difficulty * Scales and arpeggios of the keys in the book, plus G major 2 octaves * A Music Fact-Finder page to help explain words and signs * CD with performances of all the pieces to play along to * Straightforward piano accompaniments available Difficulty : Very easy 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.