ISBN M006536412. The second volume already presents classical violin duets. The child's knowledge and technique is expanded by dotted rhythms, sixteenths notes, and first double stops. And here is the most revolutionary aspect of the method: different finger patterns can be connected and combined to create any major and minor scale without the use of open strings. This creates the ability to practice scales in any position, often within the first year of playing! With this skill, songs learned in first position are easily transposed to other keys and higher position. Coupled with beginning shifting exercises this sets a foundation for an early virtuoso technique not available in any other method.
About Baerenreiter's Sassmannshaus
Children playfully learn reliable violin technique at the earliest age. For more than three decades the Sassmannshaus Tradition has been the household name for excellence in beginner violin methods in German-speaking countries. More than half a million students have successfully learned to play the violin using this publication.
This tried and tested German violin method is now available in English! The best-selling violin method that gave generations of European musicians their foundation is now available in English, with content and songs newly adapted for today's English speaking children.
What makes this violin method so special?
The child-friendly and age-appropriate text underlying the music enables children to perceive melodies as a whole and to understand their singable qualities.
Songs and scales in different positions are easily explained and mastered within the first year. This is an important advantage over methods that confine children to the first position for many years.
Note reading is emphazised from the first lesson - children are brought up to become proficient sight-readers and play in chamber music ensembles as early as possible.
In contrast to other beginner violin methods, The Sassmannshaus Tradition progresses swiftly by introducing advanced violin techniques in rudimentary form, such as shifting and varied bow strokes.
Ensemble playing is encouraged from the very beginning.
The method is suitable for single instruction as well as for group and class lessons.
The large print notes and text as well as many colorful illustrations are particularly child-friendly and very attractive to pre-school children and school children alike.
The substantial volumes contain comprehensive material and carefully calibrated learning curves. They keep children curious and interested for many months and years.
Contents:
Preface
The Third Finger is the Tonic
Up the Ladder
Bought Me a Cat
All the Little Hamsters
Triads in C major, G major and D major
Pit A Pat Rain
Pat-A-Cake
Tower Song
Songs with the New Finger Pattern
Bye, Baby Bunting
Song of the Nightingale
That's One HOT Potato
Exercise
Spielstuck
Children's Song
Ancient Dance
Are you Sleeping? (Frere Jacques)
The Dotted Quarter Notet
Canon
Five German Folk Tunes: Waltz I
Five German Folk Tunes: Waltz II
Five German Folk Tunes: Traditional
Five German Folk Tunes: Birds Announcing The Spring
Five German Folk Tunes: Traditional
The Second Finger Changes Between High and Low Positions
Summer Song
Spring Has Arrived Traditional
Canon
Returning Home
A Fiddler in the Circus
The States Song
Hunter's Minuet
Folk Dance
Gallop Karl Gottlieb Hering
Happy Birthday To You Patty S. Hill/Mildred Hill
Sur le Pont d'Avignon French Children's Song
Cotillon Esprit Philippe Chedeville
Dance (Gavotte) Esprit Philippe Chedeville
Minuet Esprit Philippe Chedeville
Gavotte George Frideric Handel
Rigaudon Esprit Philippe Chedeville
The First Finger is the Lowest Note of the Chord
Up the Ladder
All the Little Hamsters
Children's Song Traditional
Bought Me a Dog
Folk Song Traditional
Triads in E major, A major and B major
Pit A Pat Rain
Pat-A-Cake
Ode To Joy Ludwig van Beethoven
Tower Song
Exercises with the New Finger Pattern
Canon
Old MacDonald
Lightly Row
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Winter Song
Rocky Mountain High
Good Night Noisy Cricket
Fast Eighth Notes
The Hippo Song
Down at the Station
Are you Sleeping? (Frere Jacques)
Changing Between High and Low Finger Positions
Summer Song
Winter Song
Canon
Bear Dance
The Three Finger Patterns
Playing in Different Positions with the Three Patterns
Double Stops
The Second Finger is the Tonic
Up the Ladder
Bye, Baby Bunting
All the Little Hamsters
Children's Song
Folk Tune
Triads in F major, B-flat major and C major
Pit A Pat Rain
Pat-A-Cake
Little Peter Rabbit
Canon
Ode To Joy Ludwig van Beethoven
Tower Song Germany, 17th century
German Folk Song
Horn Call with Echo
Exercises with the New Finger Pattern
Down at the Station
Are you Sleeping? (Frere Jacques)
Cuckoo
Canon
Lightly Row
Children's Dance
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Allegretto After Bartolomeo Campagnoli
Allons, bergers French Christmas Carol
Sixteenth Notes
That's One HOT Potato
Tenderly
Lively
Rocky Mountain High
Old MacDonald
Good Night Noisy Cricket!
Allegro England, 18th Century
The First Finger Changes Between High and Low Positions
Summer Song Traditional
Winter Song
Canon
Sarabande From a collection of Lute Music
Molto Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The States Song
From A Contredanse Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Two Pieces From An Historical Collection
C major Notes in First Position
Exercises and Pieces in C major
Notes on the D and G strings, from Louis Spohr's violin method Louis Spohr
Notes on the A and E strings, from Louis Spohr's violin method Louis Spohr
A Little Exercise
[Untitled] from Hubert Ries' violin method Hubert Ries
Two Scale Studies, from Hubert Ries' violin method Hubert Ries
Dance
Allemande
Andantino, from Beriot's violin method Charles-Auguste de Beriot
Gavotte Johann Sebastian Bach
Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trumpet Piece Leopold Mozart
Minuet Joseph Haydn
Allegretto, from Louis Spohr's violin method Louis Spohr
[Untitled] Hubert Ries
Major and Minor Scales and Arpeggios Across Four Strings |