![]() These books have been developed with elementary-age beginners in mind, but can be used by all ages. ![]() The workbooks are designed for use through the first two levels of most method-book series, until all first-position notes have been introduced with key signatures to four sharps and three flats, rhythms to dotted eighth-sixteenth and syncopation, and 6/8 time signature. The popular fill-in fingerboard charts and write-the-counting exercises are here, along with unique diagrams and exercises to illustrate and teach the relationship between the violin fingerboard and the piano keyboard, culminating in presentation of the Circle of Fifths. They improve on current published options with a more practical focus, user-friendly text and illustrations for clarity of explanation, especially for younger students. Music theory can and should be accessible to beginning violinists too! Developed by an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Violin, these workbooks of sequential music theory concepts are written to blend with and overlay popular beginners’ teaching methods such as Essential Elements, All for Strings, A Tune A Day, and the Suzuki method. Most violin students will only achieve a rudimentary understanding of these concepts if they continue their studies to an advanced-intermediate level, if even then. “Intervals,” “triads” and “tetrachords” are terms and concepts that are introduced in most first year piano methods, and the Circle of Fifths is a handy and accessible tool for intermediate piano students and up. Meanwhile, the violinists’ piano-studying peers have sequential theory workbooks to go along with every lesson book. There is only one popular commercial string method book series in North America that even includes a dedicated theory workbook. Music Theory (“the study of how music works” – Wikipedia) can be a bit of a mystery to violin students.
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