Get Ready For Minor Scale Duets!

Covers the problem of student motivation through teacher duets activity pages review games and more. Helps make scales an enjoyable part of daily practice!

A violin method for children age four and older-The second volume already presents classical Violin duets. The child’s knowledge and technique is expanded by dotted rhythms sixteenths notes and first double stops. And here is the most revolutionary aspect of the method: different finger patterns can be connected and combined to create any major and minor scale without the use of open strings. This creates the ability to practice scales in any position often within the first year of playing!With this skill songs learned in first position are easily transposed to other keys and higher position. Coupled with beginning shifting exercises this sets a foundation for an early virtuoso technique notavailable in any other method.The authors:The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned Violin pedagogues in Germany.For the new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and adapted his father’s successful method for English-speaking children.The combined knowledge and experience of father and son make the four volumes of the Sassmannshaus Tradition the most thoroughly researched and thought-through beginner Violin method in the world.The second volume already presents classical Violin duets. The child’s knowledge and technique is expanded by dotted rhythms sixteenths notes and first double stops. And here is the most revolutionary aspect of the method: different finger patterns can be connected and combined to create any major and minor scale without the use of open strings. This creates the ability to practice scales in any position often within the first year of playing!With this skill songs learned in first position are easily transposed to other keys and higher position. Coupled with beginning shifting exercises this sets a foundation for an early virtuoso technique not available in any other method.The authors:The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned violin pedagogues in Germany.For the new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and

Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method is the world's premier method for learning modern plectrum/flatpick style Guitar. This method has stood the test of time and has been proven successful in building the theoreticand technical foundation needed to play in any style. All seven grades of this method are written in standard notation to encourage better sight reading.In Grade 1 the student guitarist will learn to playsolos duets scales and chords in the keys of C A minor G and E minor. Even in Grade 1 the student is already exposed to the chord melody concept of Guitar performance. In addition an audio recording of the solos and studiesand also a video recording are available with this books as downloads.