Publisher's Synopsis
The Viola Friends series of music books aims to inspire beginning string players and to give them much joy through music. Play, Together, Joy!
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 warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, great music that inspires students, and a time-saving teaching method that makes teaching easy and more fun.
Students will be motivated to play music with their friends right from the beginning of their studies. They will be happy to use a colorful and fun music book with a magnificent repertoire, lots of play-along videos on Youtube, and free mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud.
The popular method book Viola Friends Part 1B is a fun and colorful collection of great music for the beginner viola player. The book presents melodies by classical masters like Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Paganini, Trott, Carse, Sevcik, Handel, Purcell, Yanshinov, Kalivoda, Beethoven, Bach, and traditional Finnish children's songs.
Viola Friends 1B is the second part of the Viola Friends family of music books. It consists of short melodies, rhythmical exercises, scales, technical duets, duos, and trios. The arrangements for two violas make it possible to study and perform the music together with a friend or teacher right from the beginning.
Music by these composers is in the Viola Friends 1B Viola School: Wohlfart, Rolland, Bach, Vivaldi, Kalliwoda, Purcell, Beethoven, Mozart, Kabalevsky, Saroyan, Tchaikovsky, Alday, Strauss, Dancla, Sevcik, Trott, Carse, Spiess, and Hämäläinen.
The book starts with warming-up exercises and aims at creating playful inspiration for the student and teacher. The music follows in a pedagogical order after each new scale. Ideas concerning natural movements to help build up an effortless playing technique are part of this version of 2021.
Viola Friends 1B method book for viola contains warming-up exercises,46 small pieces for the concert, 25 duos, three trios, two Major and two minor scales in 2 octaves, and 16 technical exercises.
The books work with the equivalent simplified piano parts. The simple accompaniments make it easier for parents and children of the same age to practice and perform together.
All the music in the series 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.
