Book Two. A collection of original unison compositions for beginning and intermediate string students. Great for teaching fundamental string skills. For use in the classroom and in private lessons as supplementary material or as an alternative to existing method books.
Killer Technique: Upright Bass is designed to help open up your technique. It encourages an approach that will make you think and work hard in the practice room, but relax while performing. The content is geared toward an improvisatory approach. The lessons included are designed for pizzicato playing, but work just as well with arco. You will find exercises that present challenges to each hand. Above all, this book stresses that technique is a means to an end: creating beautiful music.
Bags of Style takes you on a fantastic musical journey through ten centuries of time, from the 12th to the 21st century. This is great material for concerts, or to liven up history or drama lessons. Each piece is complete in itself, so does not need an accompaniment, but for fun you could ask a friend to improvise a simple rhythm on drum or percussion to fit with your part. Written and arranged by the Britain's leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen, creator of a wide range of imaginative teaching publication.
Orchestra Expressions is a beginning method for string orchestra that combines the best in string pedagogy with a focus on musicianship and musical context.
The FJH Music Company is proud to present New Directions for Strings, the first string orchestra method book written by a team of pedagogues representing each of the four stringed instruments. With more than 100 years of combined teaching experience, the authors of New Directions for Strings explore many new directions, including equal integration of all the instruments, a tetrachord-based approach to support proper development of the left hand, and ensemble opportunities that occur throughout the book. Supplemental music by Soon Hee Newbold and Elliot Del Borgo. Includes 2 Play-Along CDs.
Are You Ready to Learn Viola Treble Clef?
Treble Clef for the Viola gives you a systematic study of viola treble clef at an intermediate level.
The exercise on the left-hand pages teach you to read and recognize treble clef notes, one note at a time.
Corresponding short pieces on the right-hand pages use the notes that were just learned, helping you put viola technique into context.
This book focuses on transitioning from alto clef to treble clef and helping your brain instantly recognize the notes in the new clef.
Start your study of treble clef on the viola today!