Product Description

This violin tutor contains a beginners' course in 20 steps, with over100 popular songs and tunes. It can be used alongside companion tutors for viola, cello and double bass and includes duets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3333 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

About the Author
Peter Davey is an experienced string teacher and author, Peter's writing credits include 'Abracadabra Viola' and "Violin Extra Books 1and 2'.

Customer Reviews

Abracadabra Violin
My daughter has just taken up the violin at school and finds it hard to read music and none of the rest of the household are musical so I bought this book to help her, and it has.
It's step by step guide is very simple to follow and the accompying C.D makes it fun to learn by ear as she can hear what she's playing should sound like.
I highly reccommend it to anyone taking up a musical instrument for the first time as it stops the fustration of learning and practice and actually makes learning to play fun which is exactly what it should be and is with this book great fun. I have even started to learn to play along with my daughter and we teach each other now with the help of this easy to follow book.

Excellent beginner book
For the self-taught adult, this is a great way to start. The CD helps to hear what the music should sound like, and to consolidate understanding of rhythm, and the progression is unhurried and steady with lots of pieces to consolidate base skills like steady long bows, and moving between strings. Great for developing basic technique and music reading skills. The book does lose it slightly at the end where the top string is introduced- the step into the high notes, one of the most complex parts for the beginner to get right and to make sound good is rushed and the pieces are get very complex without warning - the ragtime piece is a bad choice in particular - and a beginner will need a lot of additional help when reaching this point of progression, with much simpler pieces to practice on. However up to this point a very sound book to learn from.

Excellent beginner book
For the self-taught violinist, this is a great way to start. The CD helps to hear what the music should sound like, and to aid understanding of rhythm, and the progression is unhurried and steady with lots of pieces to consolidate base skills like steady long bows, and moving between strings. Great for developing both basic technique and music reading skills, and confidence building, particularly in the ability to play plenty of tunes in rounds with the CD accompaniment. The book does lose it slightly at the end where the top string is introduced- the step into the high notes, one of the most complex parts for the beginner to get right and to make sound good, is rushed and the last few pieces get very complex without warning. The ragtime piece was a bad choice in particular. A beginner will need a lot of additional help when reaching this stage of development, with much simpler pieces to practice and consolidate the skills involved. However up to this point a very sound book to learn from.