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Viola Friends Method Book 3: 54 progressive pieces and fun exercises for advanced viola students
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Series: Viola Method Books for Beginner Viola Students, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2023
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
VIOLA METHOD BOOK 3
Teach viola with the popular Viola Friends Method. With easy-to read, progressive repertoire this comprehensive three-volume method is widely used in classroom and private studios.
Viola Friends Method Book Volume 3 is a fun and colorful collection of great music for the more advanced viola player presenting music from J.S.Bach, G.Tartini, H.Purcell, R.Glinka, E.Elgar, F.Gossec, G.F.Handel, W.A.Mozart, L.van Beethoven, A.Dvorak, P.Tchaikovsky, and N.Baklanova. Songs are presented in a pedagogical order in the similar style of the Suzuki viola books.
Viola Friends 3 is the third part of the Viola Friends family of music books. The repertoire and exercises in volume 3 use shifting and playing music in the 3rd position, scales on one string, etudes by F.Wohlfart, bowing exercises by O.Sevcik, and double-stops from J. Trott and J.S.Bach. The book ends with four famous Student Concertos arranged for Viola and Piano.
Viola Friends method book 3 contains:
- 12 scales
- 14 duos
- 19 short pieces
- 4 technical exercises
- Concertino in C Major Op. 11 by F. Küchler (orig. G Major)
- Concerto in E minor Op. 35 by O. Rieding (orig. B Minor)
- Concerto in C Major Op. 34 by O. Rieding (orig.G Major)
- Concerto in G Major Op. 15 by F. Küchler (orig. D Major)
All Viola Friends music is easily learnable with the help of simplified piano parts, Youtube play-along videos on the Violin Friends Youtube channel, and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud and the Violin Friends homepage www.violinfriends.com.
Do to want your students to practice more, learn faster, and get better grades at examinations?
Violin Friends and Viola Friends method books have a proven track record of taking teaching to the next level with innovative ways of engaging students since 2016.
The books will inspire students to learn music independently at home and make the teachers' jobs easy. Viola Friends combines the most effective ways to build up the playing technique and enables students to use these skills immediately. Every new scale is followed by engaging duos and carefully selected pieces by the most influential classical composers. Students will learn the music faster with the help of play-along videos on Youtube and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud. Students who have studied the books are known to have made faster progress, performed more often, and got better grades at examinations.
Benefits for teachers include one book combining all the essential elements of string teaching: warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, great music that inspires students, and a time-saving teaching method that makes teaching easy and more fun.
Viola Friends by Lauri Hämäläinen is a lovely series of viola books for beginners. You will find innovative teaching methods for the basics of viola playing for young students. The books come with instrument-specific preparatory exercises, familiar songs, scales and small etudes as well as arrangements of masterpieces by great composers. Most of the pieces are arranged for a duo or trio, so the young beginners can enjoy playing together right from the start. Additionally there is a Violin Friends - YouTube channel, where you can find engaging play alongs to all the pieces in the books. This series is really a great resource for young viola players and their teachers!
Andrea Holzer-Rhomberg (author of the Fiedel-Max-series)
Dr.Heng-Ching Fang, Musician, Teacher, Academic Researcher & Translator (BMus, PGDip, MMus, PhD)
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