We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases. OUP has given a tremendous boost to its popular Fiddle Time series with a radical overhaul of the first book, Fiddle Time Starters . LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Great fun pieces, she is whizzing through the book and looking forward to getting her certificate at the end.

It's good for new and enthusiastic beginners, has clear diagrams on fingering and notes which for her tone deaf mother (me) is great as I have no idea what so ever! With tunes, quizzes and games, it covers introductory points such as how to hold the instrument and bow, though to notation and musical pieces in a range of styles. This book comes with a CD, although the publisher is now phasing out the CD and including the code for a downloadable resource instead. Building on the success of the Fiddle Time series, Fiddle Time Starters provides the best possible foundation for the budding string player. Carefully paced to suit young learners, it supports players through the important early stages, step by step – from how to hold your instrument and bow, through basic notation, to exciting pieces in a range of styles.With plenty of entertaining illustrations and a CD to play along to, with Fiddle Time Starters it really is fun to play! I love the way this book incorporates each fundamental point of technique within a very memorable/ traditional or collectively known rhyming song. A great beginner book for the young violinist – 60 tunes, quizzes, games, songs, and listening activities.

Packed with quizzes, games, and songs, as well as colour illustrations to demonstrate each stage, Fiddle Time Starters also includes a CD of performances and backing tracks to encourage and enhance progress throughout. Print it onto some colourful card, fill in your student’s name and reward them for whatever their achievement is. He has published a number of arrangements with ABRSM, and his choral and organ music is published in the UK and America. David Blackwell has worked in publishing for both Oxford University Press and The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Included in book 1: pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart and Saint-Saëns, Scottish, Chinese and Ukrainian folk tunes, music by Saint-Georges and Ignatius Sancho, and ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. I am gradually integrating as much of this helpful material as I can into my 'normal' teaching even though pupils may be using a different book; it should I feel, be highlighted and held up as a shining example of 'best practice' within instrumental teaching training courses. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. The Fiddle Time Starters book is a very good start for the young to start learning how to play the Violin, it is very easy to follow and has a few songs to get you going.

Piano and string accompaniments, plus notes, warm-ups, photocopiable pages, and additional material. Quizzes and puzzles test understanding, and the book is completed with colourful illustrations and stickers. This book uses throughout, action/rhythm words in general teaching use (but essential to the Dalcroze method), what a shame this book's system fails with the minim! As Livia has just started school and is learning her letters we didn't want to bombard her with reading music too soon and this book gentlely eases them into understanding how to read music, where to put your fingers, and rhythm. David's educational piano music includes ABRSM's Piano Star series (5 volumes), Piano Mix, 3 books of piano arrangements (ABRSM, 2015), The Foundation Pianist (Faber Music, 2018), Get Set!I think this book explains all about the violin and how to play it excellently, would recommend it to anyone. Original pieces, classical and folk music, lively concert repertoire, this is a great resource for all violinists. Developing on the achievement of the Fiddle Time series, Fiddle Time Starters provides the best possible groundwork for the budding string player. From the beginning, the book encourages a relaxed physical and mental attitude to playing and reading music.

This will then enable you to use the tracks in digital format if your venue does not have a CD player available. Violin accompaniments for all the pieces in Fiddle Time Runners, 3rd edition, suitable for a teacher or more advanced student. The overall plus of this book, I feel, is the emphasize on singing as an integral part of the learning process from the start and pupils' active encouragement in rhythmic engagement every step of the way. However, if you would like to, you can change your settings at any time using the Change cookie settings link in the Special menu. My daughter has just started violin lessons at school, and is plowing though this with some degree of success and mouse squawking sounds!S. Bach, Haydn and Verdi, a spiritual and folk tunes from Ghana and Poland, and ‘The Hippopotamus’ by Flanders and Swann.