An Easy Guide to Reading Music, Playing Your First Piece, and Enjoying Your Violin.
Aimed at those taking up the violin for the first time, this book features a brief history of the violin, a look at how it produces sound, an introduction to reading music including tablature, exercises to developing fingering skills, information on buying a violin and finding a teacher, and explanations of essential terms.
This guide to the violin includes 100 full-colour photographs and illustrations, 30 musical exercises and 12 pieces of music. It also includes practical exercises and extracts from carefully chosen works that will have you playing confidently in no time.
Covers:
- Historical overview of the instrument
- Introduction to theory
- Posture, practice and techniques
- Violin music through the ages
- How to buy and care for your own violin
