After playing hundreds of events throughout the years I have finally put some of my personal arrangements down on paper. This version of the Star-Spangled Banner is both fun to play and enjoyable to listen to. There is a balance of jazzy chords without losing the character of the piece. This is both a challenging work to practice a multitude of finger patterns and a great performance piece.

For those who are still working on chords and double-stops, the three-note chords can be altered to just playing the top two bringing the difficulty down.

Arpeggios have always been a popularresource for composers of all kinds of music, as well as a method for instrumentalmusicians to study and perfect their personal technique, and work with themajority of musical instruments. This volume is aimed at students andprofessional viola players that need to achieve an excellent technical level,or that want to achieve the level of a virtuoso in a short space of time. It ismagnificent opportunity to accomplish two important goals: spectacularlyimprove your technical level and study and master the main types of arpeggiosused in jazz improvisation.

You will come across arpeggioscoming from major chords with major seventh, with minor seventh, majorarpeggios with major seventh and augmented fifth, minor arpeggios with majorseventh and minor seventh: the diminished, semi diminished and augmented arpeggiosare also included.

In a short space of time, thestudy of arpeggios will provide you with a solid technical base that will allowyou to solve the most difficult passages you will find amongst viola scores.The only requirements are a little tenacity and patience.