Product Description
The Red Violin Method & Technique Book presents first
position violin technique with intensive studies of music fundamentals. Exercises are simply explained throughout
selected works of well-known composers.
The book includes precise fingering, reading, and bowing skills;
double stops, dotted notes, intervals, scales, and syncopation. The book also addresses dynamics (pianissimo,
piano, forte, fortissimo, etc.), tempo
(largo, lento, adagio, andante, moderato, etc.), and articulations
(legato-slurs, accents, fermata, staccato, spiccato bowing). The right hand is
thoroughly and sequentially developed through a series of bow techniques. Each bow technique defines a specific action
required to produce an acceptable bow hand.
The book uses a note-to-note sequence with finger's indication
above and below the note heads. Accurate
illustrations of the bow and fingerboard help develop proper playing position
and mixing finger patterns. This technique creates better left-hand shape and helps
develop proper playing position from the beginning.
New material is carefully paced, sequential and immediately
reinforced. New notes are approached by step, then gradually played with wider
skips and crossing strings. Each new rhythm is introduced as a Rhythm Rap,
which can be shadow bowed, then played on an open string, and finally placed in
an appropriate melodic setting.
Beside the selected melodies from well known composers, I composed
many original melodies and exercises for this particular book.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.