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Abracadabra Viola -
Book and CD £ 9.99
Abracadabra Strings; The perfect book for pupil and teacher, songs and tunes you will know and want to play, carefully graded
to cover each aspect of technique for the beginner.
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Essential Elements Viola - Book CD and DVD £ 6.75
Essential Elements; A fully comprehensive string method
that combines the traditional elements of book-based learning with the possibilities of DVD. Learn all the basic techniques,
notes, theory and music-reading you need to get on the right track with the Violin. Everything is covered, right from how
to hold the instrument and its bow, up to full pieces and even improvisation!
An enhanced CD is included,
allowing you to hear each example before you play it, and providing accompaniments with full tempo-adjusting software for
your PC.
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Essential String Method Viola
Book 1 £
6.75
Essential
String Method offers an exciting
advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from
the outset.
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The String Time Series
Viola Time Joggers
£ 7.95
Viola Time Runners
£ 7.95
The String Time series,
Fiddle Time, Viola Time and Cello Time are a series of string tutors for young players.
Packed with lively tunes, simple duets and traditional pieces, the books are carefully paced and organized to build confidence.
With entertaining illustrations and a CD to playalong to they really make learning fun.
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New Road to String Playing (Violin, Viola, Cello) £ 4.95
M. Dawe
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New Tune a Day Viola
(DVD Edition) £14.95
The DVD edition
of this hugely popular series of tutors gets you even closer to your instrument with a set of real music lessons right there
on your screen!
A New Tune A Day features the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail that made
earlier editions so hugely popular and successful. Clear explanatory diagrams and photographs help guide you through the lessons
and achieve the very best in tone, technique and posture. The book includes:
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Advice on your instrument and the equipment
you will need
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Instructions for effective technique
and comfortable playing
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Explanatory pages on reading and understanding
music
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Tests to check your own progress and
comprehension
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Strings in Step Viola Book 1 (book only) £ 7.95
Strings in
Step Book 1 for violin, viola, and cello include a CD featuring performances of all the pieces and exercises with piano accompaniments
and some additional backing.
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Strictly Strings Viola Book 1 (book only) £ 5.50
This easy-to-teach, straightforward string method is designed to promote success in beginning string players through
the joy of ensemble playing. A unique letter-note style of music notation ensures a smooth and successful transition to note
reading.
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Team Strings Viola (book only) £
6.50
Team Strings For everyone who wants to play strings. Team Strings is ideal for individual, group or class
tuition.
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Books for String Technique
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Improve Your Sight-Reading Viola Grade 1-5 £ 6.50
This series of books is
designed to help overcome sight-reading problems. Step-by-step they help the
player to build up a complete picture of each piece, first through rhythmic and melodic exercises, then by the study of a
prepared piece with questions for the student to answer, and so finally to the real, unprepared sight-reading test itself.
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Sevcik School
of Viola Technique Opus 1 Part 1 £ 5.50
Since 1901, Otakar Sevcik's works have formed the basis of many schools
of string playing around the world. Thousands of players continue to find Sevcik an invaluable aid to technical development.
In practising Sevcik, as in playing scales, etudes, or pieces there are always four main headings to consider: purity of intonation,
evenness of tone, exactness of rhythm and physical freedom and ease. Opus 1 Part 1 focuses on exercises in the first position.
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Sevcik School
of Viola Bowing Technique Opus 2 Part 1 £ 6.50
An excellent set of bowing exercises that will help all violinists to develop their bowing
styles, speed, control and rhythm.
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Quick Change (Viola) £ 6.50
Mary Cohen
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Superstart Viola & CD
£ 9.99
Mary Cohen
Superstart
introduces rhythmic work in the early stages through imaginative use of words and rhymes, while simple tunes and 'real' pieces
are incorporated from the very beginning. With brilliant, witty illustrations by Todd O'Neill, loads of humour and a host
of rewarding musical experiences, Superstart will inspire and stimulate both pupils and teachers.
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Superstudies Book 1 Viola - Book £ 6.50
Mary Cohen
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Technique Takes Off! Solo Viola £
7.50
Mary Cohen
Off Fourteen original, imaginative studies for solo violin, designed to lead on from elementary studies for younger
players to those of Mazas and Kreutzer. Each piece concentrates on one or two aspects of technique, and the whole set covers
a wide range of left and right hand skills including spiccato bowing, string-crossing, moto perpetuo, cantabile and easy double-stopping.
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Suzuki Viola School - Books 1 - 6, £
4.99 per volume
The SUZUKI METHOD is based on Dr. Shinichi
Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that man is the son of his environment. According to Dr. Suzuki 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.
The Suzuki philosophy is based upon the idea that children can learn music in the
same manner they do their native language, through repetitive listening. This listening is then followed up with:
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Individual Instruction with a trained Suzuki teacher
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Group lessons on a bi-weekly / weekly basis
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Parent Involvement
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Encouragement. Students begin lessons as early as
two years old and through repetition of small and enjoyable steps begin building a music vocabulary.
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