Fiddle Time Starters: A Beginner's Book for the Young Violinist

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Two wonderful Dutch teachers have made translations into Dutch of a number of the songs from the Starters books - Thank you Petra Flipse and Marijn Drolsbach! Exam Music ABRSM Exams Trinity College Exams ABRSM Jazz Exams Other Exam Publications Graded Piano Pieces Baroque Keyboard Pieces Series Best of Grade Series Classics to Moderns Series Core Classics Grade by Grade Series Keyboard Anthology Series Making the Grade Series More Romantic Pieces Series Romantic Sketchbook Series Short Romantic Pieces Series Upgrade Series What Else Can I Play? Credit is provided by Omni Capital Retail Finance Ltd authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. My daughter has just started violin lessons at school, and is plowing though this with some degree of success and mouse squawking sounds!

I am gradually integrating as much of this helpful material as I can into my 'normal' teaching even though pupils may be using a different book; it should I feel, be highlighted and held up as a shining example of 'best practice' within instrumental teaching training courses. Quizzes and puzzles test understanding, and the book is completed with colourful illustrations and stickers. Simple and very clear and concise explanations about time and notes, good illustrations and easy little songs to learn at the beginning, but get longer and slighter harder towards the end as you would expect when a child progresses with violin skills.This book uses throughout, action/rhythm words in general teaching use (but essential to the Dalcroze method), what a shame this book's system fails with the minim! Overall I can't complain and the CD is a nice edition (still can't report on that because we haven't played it yet) - postage took a week and a half like they said it would. The Fiddle Time Starters book is a very good start for the young to start learning how to play the Violin, it is very easy to follow and has a few songs to get you going. An ideal first book for beginners with lots of short easy tunes to get children playing straight away.

Finger pattern 01-2-34 plus low 2nd fingers and high 3rd fingers, 2nd and 3rd position pieces, a range of bowing techniques, and pieces using modes, the chromatic and blues scales, and dominant 7ths. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.With his wife Kathy, he has written and published over 60 books for young string players: Fiddle Time, Viola Time, Cello Time and several ensemble collections, all published by Oxford University Press. Kathy and David have twice won the UK’s Music Industries Association award for Best Educational Publication. Sometimes this will be due to overwhelming demand, and sometimes it will be due to circumstances beyond our control, such as the item having gone to reprint or out of print. Carefully paced to suit young learners, it supports and guides through the early stages, step by step. Violin accompaniments for all the pieces in Fiddle Time Sprinters, suitable for a teacher or more advanced student.

Great little tunes, opportunity to create your own, uses ‘proper’ music and the letters for numpties like me who are totally hopeless at reading music but want to help/be supportive. Why did you not use the word 'stride' or its equivalent as it is indicative of the length of the note. A beautiful collection for students of the violin to discover and enjoy … an absolute gem of a book. With pieces to play and sing, exercises and games, it links to practical music-making, putting theory in context and building aural awareness. Carefully paced to suit young learners, it supports players through the important early stages, step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow, through basic notation, to exciting pieces in a range of styles.We are one of the top suppliers of woodwind, brass and orchestral strings across Sussex and are main agents for most of the instruments we sell.