Suitable for use by individuals as well as tutors working with student ensembles the Team Strings series has been developed to introduce musicians to playing as part of a group. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using Team Strings to play in ensembles with students using Team Woodwind Team Brass Team Percussion and Team Recorder.Team Strings: Viola is a flexible and adaptable course ideal for beginner Viola players. The tutor can be tailored to suit the specific needs of each student. Each piece is carefully graded to ensure a logical progression at a sensible pace and studentsare introduced to a wide variety of musical styles throughout the book. Team Strings has been specially written to support almost any combination of string instruments that the teacher may encounter. Imaginative Piano Accompaniments have been provided as well as helpful notes and clear ensemble scores to aid the teacher. Team Strings also includes all of the scales for the relevant grades set by the major examination boards.This volume comes complete with a CD of backing tracks designed to add a third dimension to practice sessions or performance when an accompanist is not available.

Three Ɖtudes For Viola was composed by American composer and arranger Nico Muhly. Written for Nadia Sirot one of Muhly's friends. Three Ɖtudes For Viola was designed as performance pieces as well as practice the Ɖtudes help to deal with the messy fifth-based string crossings Muhly's harmonic language sometimes outlines. These three Ć©tudes can be performed in any order all together or singularly. The pre-recorded material for Three Ɖtudes For Viola should be mixed in such a way that the Viola rides in the middleof the texture. Ɖtude 2 however should favour the solo Viola. Download the pre-recorded elementĀ  HERE . If you encounter any problems please email promotion@musicsales.co.uk .

Selections from the Viola Repertoire-Solos for Young Violists is a five-volume series of music books with companion compact discs featuring 34 works for viola and piano. Many of the pieces in this collection have long been recognized as stepping stones to the major viola repertoire while others are newly discovered arranged and published for this series. Compiled edited and recorded by violist Barbara Barber Solos for Young Violists is a graded series of works ranging from elementary to advanced levels and represents an exciting variety of styles and techniques for violists. The collection has become a valuable resource for teachers and students of all ages. The piano track recorded on the secondhalf of each CD gives the violist the opportunity to practice with accompaniments.

Selections from the Viola Repertoire-Solos For Young Violists Volume 1 is part of a graded series of works ranging from elementary to advanced levels and representing an exciting variety of styles and techniques for Violists. Volume 1 contains eleven pieces for Viola with Piano accompaniment. This is a valuable resource for teachers and students of all ages and offers a broad spectrum of pieces some of which will be familiar many of which will be new to you. A large number of the works in this series have long been recognised as stepping-stones to the major Viola repertoire while others are newly published pieces for further choices of study. The Viola part is included in a separatepull-out book and a table describes the technical and musical features as well as the relevant Suzuki Viola level for cross-method teaching. A CD of demonstration recordings is available IMP8018.

In the composer’s own words ‘Keep in Touch is a lament a sort of chaconne divided up into sections by more freely-composed cadenzas for the Viola.’ The electronic CD supplied with the sheet music includes bluesy singing from Antony Hegarty among other sounds and Muhly clearly relishes the ‘inbetweenness’ of the singing and the falsetto of the Viola. Muhly’s music in this piece plays freely with time and key in a postmodernist way making the ultimate solitude of the Viola touching. Contemporary American composer Nico Muhly is a prolific writer and arranger who at 32 is theyoungest composer ever to have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His oeuvre includes two operas and many solo pieces and works for small ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and he has collaborated widely. Download the pre-recorded elementĀ  HERE . If you encounter any problems please email promotion@musicsales.co.uk .

Viola Exam Pack 2020-2023 Initial Grade. As part of the 2020-2023 syllabus, ABRSM is introducing a new Initial Grade exam for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass with first exams taking place from 1 January 2020. The Initial Grade is a pre-Grade 1 assessment, following the same structure, content and assessment criteria as ABRSM?s existing graded music exams (three pieces, scales, sight-reading and aural tests). It?s designed to allow learners at the earliest stages of their musical journeys to celebrate their achievement, and is an ideal qualification for those who want a mark as well as helpful feedback. The Viola Exam Pack for Initial Grade contains nine pieces (three per list) from the syllabus, the scales requirements and sample sight-reading tests. Audio recordings of the nine pieces in each book are included with the pack and will be available via a download and streaming code. A separate Specimen Aural Tests book is also available for Initial Grade.

Jazz Viola Wizard Jr. is designed for beginning and intermediate middle and high school violists in the tradition of the parent method Jazz Fiddle Wizard - a breakthrough approach for string playerswho want to learn to improvise within the jazz style. No step is left out in this sequentially arranged introduction to the role of rhythm call and response articulation scales and chord changes in jazz improvisation. Theexercises are turned into catchy tunes arranged to work in any configuration of string groups. That is three-part arrangements for each tune may be played with any number of like instruments or in conjunction with Jazz FiddleWizard Jr. and Jazz Cello Wizard Jr.. Suitable as a self-instruction book or for use in private and/or group string instruction Jazz Viola Wizard Jr. contains Piano accompaniment parts as well asaccess to online audio recording that provides a full rhythm section accompaniment for every exercise and tune. The appropriate tone and style are modelled by the author's performances of more than 50 sample exercises andimprovised solos.

Big Note/Large Print-Warm-ups for the Violist is an adaptation of Warm-ups for the Violinist. It is targeted to help build strengthen and develop the muscles and techniques needed for viola playing. It is especially suited and created for the morecasual violist who is sincerely interested in getting maximum benefit from a minimum of effort. I first tested these scales and exercises on myself for six months faithfully using them for about 20 minutes as warm-ups to my dailypractice. I was rewarded with a definite improvement in my technique. I was actually surprised to see my dexterity grow as I charted my metronomic progress on a calendar. I remember thinking 'I will never be able to play fasterthan this.' But then a couple of weeks later I would indeed climb a notch higher!Through the years I have used these exercises in countless workshops and with private students. The letters of thanks and positive feedback fromstudents who were thrilled with improved violin and fiddle technique have brought me great satisfaction. Progress with these exercises is like the progress of a body builder. Body builders do not get up in the morning and think 'I am going to develop and build my muscles today ' and instantly look like Mr. Atlas. It takes weeks months and for some years to attain results. It must be done over a period of time. Like all diets and exercise programs determination and dedication are most important to success! I sincerely believe that these exercises when faithfully practiced will help violists improve their skills. The exercises will help develop and strengthen muscles usedfor finger dexterity clarity of notes tone bowing-arm control intonation double stops and a flexible bowing-arm wrist. A companion audio play-along recording is available online.

Methode Progressive-An educationalist of renown Viola player ValĆ©rie Bime-Apparailly (born in 1962 in Bordeaux) is the author of numerous beginner methods for string instruments that have met with unflagging success. The second volume of the series Je DĆ©bute L’Alto once again takes up the challenge of the first collection: to combine precision with the pleasure of playing. To do this each chapter starts with a short sequence of exercises enabling pupils to approach the pieces with serenity and concentration. Reduced to their simplest expression the theoretical explanations are accompanied by sketches that enhance their clarity. Thealbum comes with a playback CD containing recordings of the different pieces. A relaxed eclecticism runs through the work: illustrious classics such as the Habanera from Carmen or the Variations sur “Ah ! Vous dirai-je Maman” (“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”) by Mozart can be found alongside Un Ć©lĆ©phant Ƨa trompe Ć©normĆ©ment and Rock’n’roll des GallinacĆ©s. Education is an art form.

Instrumental Play-Along-15 favorites arranged for instrumentalists with professionally-recording backing tracks for play-along fun. Includes: Amazing Grace Blessed Assurance In the Garden Leaning on the Everlasting Arms The Old Rugged Cross Shall We Gather at the River? Sweet by and By There is Power in the Blood and more.

This material is part of the worldwide Suzuki Method of teaching. Companion recordings should be used with these publications. In addition there are piano accompaniment books that go along with this material.

Instrumental Play-Along-Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along: 12 Smash Hits is a sheet music/CD pack jam packed with solo arrangements of 12 smash hits from recent artists such as Ed Sheeran Taylor Swift Bruno Mars and more.Read the music from the book and play along with the professionally recorded accompaniment on the CD to songs such as Skyfall Live While We're Young Some Nights and many others.