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

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Carefully paced to suit young learners, the book supports players through the important early stages, step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow, through basic notation, to pieces using the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fingers.

Packed with quizzes, games, and songs, as well as colour illustrations to demonstrate each stage, Fiddle Time Starters also includes a CD of performances and backing tracks to encourage and enhance progress throughout. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. I bought this as it was recommended by my friend and violin teacher as a great starter book for my 5 year old. S. Bach, Haydn and Verdi, a spiritual and folk tunes from Ghana and Poland, and ‘The Hippopotamus’ by Flanders and Swann.

Great fun pieces, she is whizzing through the book and looking forward to getting her certificate at the end. He has published a number of arrangements with ABRSM, and his choral and organ music is published in the UK and America. Kathy and David have twice won the UK’s Music Industries Association award for Best Educational Publication. 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.

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. Bach for Violin is a celebration of the music of this remarkable composer, and provides a varied collection of concert pieces in new arrangements exploring the range of styles and genres found in Bach’s music. If your product comes complete with a CD or if you purchase a CD separately, then the tracks on the CD can easily be converted to MP3 files by using, for example, the “Rip CD” option in the Windows Media Player on a PC.I think this book is an absolute must for anyone teaching strings as part of a wider opportunities program and it is a most valuable addition to the the existing beginners' repertoire. A fun and imaginative activity book for all young violinists, covering all essential first symbols and concepts. She has a special interest in teaching the violin and viola to young children, both individually and in groups. 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. Violin accompaniments for all the pieces in Fiddle Time Joggers, third edition, suitable for a teacher or more advanced student.

He has conducted both adult and children's choirs, and published several fine choral arrangements, as well as pieces for Oxford's Piano Time series. 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. It's good for new and enthusiastic beginners, has clear diagrams on fingering and notes which for her tone deaf mother (me) is great as I have no idea what so ever! Carefully paced to suit young learners, it supports and guides through the early stages, step by step. Listen to three tracks from each of the four main Fiddle Time pupil's books — Fiddle Time Starters, Joggers, Runners, and Sprinters.

Carefully paced to suit young learners, the book supports players through the vital early stages, step by step-from how to hold your instrument and bow, through basic notation, to pieces using the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fingers. 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? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

However, if you would like to, you can change your settings at any time using the Change cookie settings link in the Special menu. The revised edition of Fiddle Time Scales 1 is brimming over with creative ideas and packed with imaginative and amusing. Print it onto some colourful card, fill in your student’s name and reward them for whatever their achievement is. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. 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.

Developing on the achievement of the Fiddle Time series, Fiddle Time Starters provides the best possible groundwork for the budding string player. With tunes, quizzes and games, it covers introductory points such as how to hold the instrument and bow, though to notation and musical pieces in a range of styles. Covers the finger patterns used in Joggers and Runners and includes all the scales and arpeggios for ABRSM Grades 1 and 2.