Piano Part for Viola Friends Viola Method Book 1: 41 Simplified Piano Parts

By Mr Lauri Juhani Hamalainen

Piano Part for Viola Friends Viola Method Book 1

41 Simplified Piano Parts

Teach viola with the popular Viola Friends Method. With easy-to read, progressive repertoire this comprehensive three-volume method is widely used in classroom and private studios.

Piano Part for Viola Friends Method Book Volume1 is a fun and colorful collection of great music for the beginner viola player, presenting music from:

W.A. Mozart

G. F. Handel

H. Purcell

L.van Beethoven

I. Komarovsky

J.S.Bach

Popular European and American children's songs

The books will inspire students to learn music independently at home and make the teachers' jobs easy. Viola Friends combines the most effective ways to build up the playing technique and enables students to use these skills immediately. Every new scale is followed by engaging duos and carefully selected pieces by the most influential classical composers. Songs are presented in a pedagogical order in the similar style of the Suzuki violin books. Students will learn the music faster with the help of play-along videos on Youtube and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud. Students who have studied the books are known to have made faster progress, performed more often, and got better grades at examinations.

Benefits for teachers include one book that combines all the essential elements in string teaching: warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, great music that inspires students, and a time-saving teaching method that makes teaching easy and more fun.

"Viola Friends by Lauri H m l inen is a lovely series of viola books for beginners. You will find innovative teaching methods for the basics of viola playing for young students. The books come with instrument-specific preparatory exercises, familiar songs, scales and small etudes as well as arrangements of masterpieces by great composers. Most of the pieces are arranged for a duo or trio, so the young beginners can enjoy playing together right from the start. Additionally there is a Violin Friends - YouTube channel, where you can find engaging play alongs to all the pieces in the books. This series is really a great resource for young viola players and their teachers "
Andrea Holzer-Rhomberg (author of the Fiedel-Max-series)

"Viola Friends series by Lauri H m l inen are fun and useful books for beginners and children to learn violin. The books are colourful with lots of interesting drawings. There are lots of duets and ensembles that players can play and enjoy music together. Viola Friends is an inspiring material for teachers and students to have "
Dr.Heng-Ching Fang, Musician, Teacher, Academic Researcher & Translator (BMus, PGDip, MMus, PhD)

Let's Play, Together

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CHL585Q5
• ISBN13: 9798860368293
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"