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

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Covers the finger patterns used in Joggers and Runners and includes all the scales and arpeggios for ABRSM Grades 1 and 2. Using easy-to-read simplified notation there is a careful progression of material and lively rhythms on sporty, jungle, and space themes.

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.

OUP has given a tremendous boost to its popular Fiddle Time series with a radical overhaul of the first book, Fiddle Time Starters . All deliveries within the UK are sent by Royal Mail First Class Post or 24-Hour Parcelforce dependent on weight.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. All pieces can be played with piano accompaniment, and some also have a violin accompaniment and chords for guitar. Included in book 1: pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart and Saint-Saëns, Scottish, Chinese and Ukrainian folk tunes, music by Saint-Georges and Ignatius Sancho, and ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. Print it onto some colourful card, fill in your student’s name and reward them for whatever their achievement is. With repertoire spanning classical music of all periods to folk music from around the world and music from less well-known voices, there’s something for everyone in this wide-ranging series.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! A varied collection of original and newly arranged pieces from the Baroque to the twentieth century, each with fingering and bowing suggestions and notes on the pieces and performance techniques. LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. From the beginning, the book encourages a relaxed physical and mental attitude to playing and reading music. A great beginner book for the young violinist – 60 tunes, quizzes, games, songs, and listening activities.

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.

Violin accompaniments for all the pieces in Fiddle Time Joggers, third edition, suitable for a teacher or more advanced student. 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. David's educational piano music includes ABRSM's Piano Star series (5 volumes), Piano Mix, 3 books of piano arrangements (ABRSM, 2015), The Foundation Pianist (Faber Music, 2018), Get Set! 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. Perhaps they’ve practised consistently well, completed a particular piece, played in a school concert or completed a Fiddle Time Book!