SKU: AP.20159UK

ISBN 9781470611675. English.

Gems for Beginner Violin Groups is a collection of tried and tested, easy, rhythmic, fun pieces for group lessons, concerts, and workshops. They are designed for use in either a reader-based or Suzuki context. Includes reproducible violin parts. Although designed for open-string players (violin A Parts) with piano/CD, most of the pieces include optional parts (violin B & C) for more advanced players. The CD includes performance and accompaniment tracks.

SKU: KV.3612511

ISBN 9781848676497.

Hi, I'm Mungo Monster! Welcome to my first violin book! Along with your tutor, I will teach you how to play the violin, step-by-step. So, let's get started... if you're brave enough!

Designed to nurture both confidence and independence in beginner violinists by teaching them how to read notes, rather than relying upon finger numbers written in by the teacher. The book progresses steadily with each chapter introducing a new finger at a time, as well as:

• Useful information about the violin and the music
• Practice songs
• A duet to play with a friend or the teacher
• A monster challenge
• A quick quiz
• A brain box (fun musical activities)

SKU: SU.29110060

1. Sidestep Reel - In 19th Century America, the Afro-Celtic fiddle style was the centerpiece of many a dance. Reels and hornpipes were very popular forms. Their repetitive, even-metered rhythms were easy and fun to dance to, and their infectious singable melodies stayed in the mind and on the tongue. More adventurous fiddlers were given to syncopating on these forms by accenting off beats and by embellishing melodies with oddmetered note groupings. Syncopation is a fundamental rhythmic attitude of jazz and this movement is a celebration of that art. The melodic language is a home-grown concoction of commonality between traditional reels and hornpipes and the Baroque, Ragtime and the quartal concepts of Modern Jazz. 2. As the Wind Goes - the wistful late night song of a lullabye, a campfire song, a ballad...a spiritual. It is sung as if on the wind, yearning to experience once again that which will only ever again live as memory. 3. Jones’ Jig - the Irish Jig, the African 6/8 bell pattern, the shuffle rhythm of jazz and the drum style of Elvin Jones all play around with the relationship of 3 in the time-space of 2. The juxtaposition, negotiation and reconciliation of these opposing rhythmic perspectives create interesting musical relationships all over the globe. 4. Nicola’s Strathspey - In the traditional Strathspey, improvised embellishments, syncopated dotted rhythms and the use of space between notes create expectation, momentum and surprise. These same elements and their effect on the listener are the same in the blues. It seems like a natural marriage. 5. Bye Bye Breakdown - This is good ol’, Saturday night barn dance, hoedown fiddling. It revels in the whining cry of open double stops, in all types of musical onomatopoeia from train sounds to animal calls to country whistling, and in the steady 2/4 rhythm that is as basic as walking. The harmonic framework of several popular fiddle and folk tunes provide a practical grid for the cutting of challenging melodic and rhythmic figures. It is designed to tire fiddler and dancers out. Then we stomp our way home in varying states of delight and disrepair.Solo Violin Duration: 24' Composed: 2018 Published by: Wynton Marsalis (administered by Skayne's Music).

SKU: BT.9781472920546

ISBN 9781472920546. English.

Anyone can take the stage and stand in the spotlight with this fun and festive Christmas repertoire book. A selection of popular carols and songs to complement the best-selling Abracadabra tutorial books, with a CD ofspecially-arranged backing tracks in a jazzy big-band style. Abracadabra Christmas: Violin Showstoppers provides fantastic material for lessons in the lead up to Christmas and will add glitter and sparkle to anyChristmas concert performance