Sassmanshaus: Early Start on the Viola, Volume 1

Sassmanshaus Early Start on the Viola, Volume 1

What makes this viola method so unique? The leading German viola method now available in English. Large print notes and texts as well as many colourful illustrations are ideal for pre-school as well as school children.

After beginning with open strings and simple note values, learners become acquainted with the cuckoo call (minor 3rd) as a basic interval for guidance purposes and for mastering good intonation.

Volume 1 makes use of nursery rhymes, all of which are supplied with words to ensure that the melody lines can be easily grasped as a whole. All the fingers are introduced in succession, as well as simple accidentals and note values from whole note (semibreve) to eighth note (quaver).

From the very beginning the volume places a special emphasis on reading musical notation and offers training in moving from one string to another and basic bowing strokes. Large print and delightful colour illustrations make the volume especially appealing to children.

Also enclosed is a sheet of cut-out musical cards that allow young learners to invent many puzzle and guessing games and later to master scales and pitch names.

Also available:

Sassmanshaus Early Start on the Viola: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4.

Preface

Note Values And Symbols

Open Strings

String Crossing

The "Cuckoo's Third" With The Second Finger

The Fourth Finger

The First Finger

String Crossings And Fingerings On Different Strings

The Third Finger

Accidentals

Scales On Two Strings

More Exercises, Songs And Stroke Patterns

New Stroke Patterns

Slurred Notes

The Portato Stroke