Available for more than a dozen instruments, these coordinated method books teach how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively – how to listen, interact and respond, improvise, and become part of the groove. The book and play-along CD will help improve your timing, technique, and reading ability to become the great player that everyone wants to have in their band! Topics in the Viola book include: warming up, practice routines, learning by ear, theory & technique, rhythmic interpretation, reading, improvisation, interpreting lead sheets, and more. The accompanying CD features Berklee players and covers a wide variety of styles.
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For unaccompanied viola.
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Three vamp parts are layered on each other in this innovative improvisation collection, allowing soloists to join in as they please. Some vamps are simple, others more challenging. Improvising becomes accessible with soloing guidelines and tips. 35 different styles are covered, including jazz, classical, hip-hop, rock, country-western, Asian, African, Celtic, Latin, Gregorian and more. Each page has sugested notes for soloing, so your solo will always fit with the other players. These volumes are available for four instruments – violin, viola, and cello/string bass – so string players can improvise together.
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Charles Dancla (1817-1907), French composer and teacher, wrote these wonderful preparatory studies for violin. Transcribed here for viola for the first time.
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For unaccompanied viola. Text in Italian, French and English.
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Concert studies designed to give players the chance to learn and explore contemporary viola techniques like sul ponticello, harmonics, quartertones, and more.
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Preparatory trill studies in the first position.
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Preparatory trill studies in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th positions.
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Fit in 15 Minutes is intended for occasional players who are very short of time and want to maintain and improve their viola technique in a concentrated and effective quarter of an hour. They can also be used at the beginning of a longer practice or rehearsal session.
As the technical precondition of beginners and professional violists vary, each exercise is offered in three levels of progressive complexity:
• Level 1: Exercises for beginners
• Level 2: Exercises for advanced players
• Level 3: Exercises for tertiary students and professionals
The division in three levels provides didactic transparency. It is not meant to create boundaries, but serves as a stimulation to identify correlations, to polish basics or to conquer new technical challenges.
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A collection of scales and arpeggios aimed at advanced instrumentalists. Presented in progressively higher positions in double stops (sixths, octaves) and different rhythms. Copy in English and Polish.
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Here is the chance to enter the new world of playing today's music while learning to express your own music through improvisation. Don't be afraid! Rockin' Strings is going to teach you how to create your own melodies one step at a time. Play along with the accompanying audio tracks. They will make you sound like a star as you begin to progress through the book, exploring additional keys and rhythms while improvising – all in the style of popular music. Play by yourself, with your teacher, your friends, and your school orchestra.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Contents: Vorwort • Von der Notenschrift • Von der Bratsche • Zeichenerklärung • Die ersten Bogenübungen auf leeren Saiten • Übungen für den Saitenwechsel • Das Aufsetzen der Finger der linken Hand in der ersten Griffstellung • Erste Übungen zum gleichzeitigen Greifen und Streichen • Übungen für das Schultergelenk • Terzen • Dreiklang • Gleichzeitiges Streichen von 2 Saiten • Die zweite Griffstellung • Moll-Dreiklänge • Synkopen • Intervalle • Der Dominantseptimenakkord • Übungen für das Schultergelenk • Zur Befestigung der 1. und 2. Griffart • Die dritte Griffstellung • Bogenübungen im punktierten Rhythmus • Die vierte Griffstellung • Die fünfte Griffstellung • Bogenübungen • Der gehämmerte Strich (Martelé) • Bogenübung im 6/8-Takt • Der geworfene Bogenstrich • Die halbe Lage • Der zweimalige Gebrauch desselben Fingers • Die Moll-Tonleiter • Übungen mit dem Intervall der übermässigen Sekunde • Bogenübungen • Die ersten dynamischen Übungen • Bogentechnischer Anhang
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Contents: Sound for us • London's burning • Drummer's march • Fiddle and flute • Favourite round • Long, long ago • My dame hath a lame, tame crane • Tallis' canon • Summer song • Summer is a-coming in • Echo dance • Ave Maria • Idle cowboy • Three blind mice • Gavotte • I sing when I'm happy • The rose • Oh, how lovely is the evening • Rumba Time • A boat, a boat • Haste thee, nymph • The flower wondrous-fair • Come, follow • O my love • The four posted bed • Emperor Waltz • Little Brown Jug.
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Viola I, II and III
Contents: Salome
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This edition is based on the complete first printed edition of 1803 published in two volumes by the Leipzig Bureau de Musique which was founded by Hoffmeister together with Kühnel: the plate numbers are 158 (Studies 1-5) and 196 (Sutdies 6-12). Shortly before that (or at the same time), part of the work (Studies 1-5) was published by Sieber in Paris (plate number 141): that edition has been consulted in instances of ambiguity.
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Rodolfo Lipizer was an Italian violinist, composer, teacher, and orchestra director. He dedicated himself with passion to teaching and didactics, always looking for and applying the most valid, modern and effective solutions to technical and interpretational problems related to the violin. The art and the technique of the vibrato on the violin or viola is a systematized didactic of vibrato unique in the pedagogic literature for the left hand technique on the violin and viola.
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Develop mastery and control over the viola fingerboard, in all keys. Whether you are playing classical, jazz, fiddle tunes, or other styles, these twenty-first century strategies can significantly improve your technique and musicality, and provide the foundation for improvisation. Play-along audio tracks are included for accompaniment, as you begin to explore this previously uncharted but essential territory. This approach is core to Berklee's viola curriculum.
The book covers: Fingering strategies for comfortably playing in all keys; Scale diagrams for easily visualizing your fingerboard; Major, minor, and pentatonic scales, modes, and arpeggios; Etudes applying these scales and arpeggios in an improvisational context; Essential chord and scale relationships that are useful for improvising; Exercises to help memorize and internalize the scales; and more!
Rob Thomas is a professor in the Berklee College of Music String Department, where he has taught since 2002. He has performed and recorded with the String Trio of New York, the Jazz Passengers, Chuck Owen's Jazz Surge big band, the Mahavishnu Project, the Chris Parker Quintet, Gypsy Jazz Caravan, and many others.
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