Mel Bay First Lessons Violin Book/CD/DVD Set Review

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(More customer reviews)Perfect book for teaching yourself. Starts off with the usual silly pieces but soon you will be playing some quite nice little songs. The CD is nice if you are having trouble reading the notes and can't quite get the tune. If you want to learn to play the violin it realy isn't that hard with this book. With a little effort, you will surprise yourself.

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Have you ever wanted to learn to play the violin? First Lessons Violin presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. The companion CD and DVD feature all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment. Contents include -Holding the Violin Playing the Open Strings Quarter Notes and Half Notes Notes in the First Position on the A and E strings Key Signatures Repeat Signs, Lightly Row, Dotted Notes Eighth notes, Hungarian Folk Song #1 Notes in the First Position on the D string Rests, Scherzando D Scale, Gavotte, Country Gardens Dynamics, Dixie Notes in the Key of D on the E string, Riguadon Time Signature, Lavender's Blue Slurs, Gavotte Accents, Fanfare Minuet Key of G, London Symphony Crescendo and Decrescendo, Jamaica -English Dance Tune The Upbeat, British Grenadiers Accidentals, Minuet -Telemann Key of C, Trumpet Minuet Ritard, French March (duet) Playing two notes with the same bow direction, Gavotte in C The Fourth Finger, Bour e from Water Music Fourth Finger and Open Strings Key of A, German Dance Sixteenth Notes Dotted Eighth Note Staccato, Glockenspiel Staccato and Legato Grace Notes

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