Enjoying Violin Technique - Basic Exercises with Piano Arrangements and CD/Online Audio - for Intermediate Violin - by Kerstin Wartberg - Istex Music Publications

Accelerate Your Violin Student’s Progress!

As a busy and caring teacher, you know that developing proper technique and practice habits early on leads to rapid advancement. The trick is to motivate your students to maintain focused and effective practice habits between lessons.

Kerstin Wartberg, internationally acclaimed Suzuki pedagogue and author of the popular Step-By-Step practice series, has written a groundbreaking new work for the intermediate violin student. Enjoying Violin Technique was created for developing the habits that lead to technical proficiency. With nearly 100 engaging exercises, 75 with piano accompaniment, accompanying MP3 CD, and downloadable audio files, Enjoying Violin Technique is a complete guide that every teacher will appreciate. Dozens of clear illustrations are invaluable in explaining and reinforcing understanding of difficult concepts.

The book is grouped into 10 detailed sections:
• One and Two Octave Scales & Arpeggios (1st - 6th positions)
• Shifting Exercises (based on the Ševčík System)
• Scales & Arpeggios on one String (based on the Flesch System)
• Three Octave Scales & Arpeggios
• Playing in High Positions
• Intonation Exercises
• Soundpoints
• Vibrato
• Basic Trill Exercises
• Double Stops

Perhaps most inspiring are the practice suggestions and quotations from great masters of the violin, sprinkled throughout the book: Dorothy DeLay, Simon Fischer, Carl Flesch, Ivan Galamian, Jascha Heifetz, Itzhak Perlman, Otakar Ševčík, and Shinichi Suzuki.

KW101 Enjoying Violin Technique, by Kerstin Wartberg
Intermediate Level: Basic Exercises with Piano Arrangements by David Andruss
Volume 1
In English and German
80 pages, with MP3 CD & Digital Download
ISBN 978-3-946872
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