Essential Technique for Strings - Viola Book 3
Essential Technique for Strings Book 3 further develops music skills for the intermediate and advancing student. Book 3 introduces students to higher positions, shifting, advanced bowing, and special techniques.
- Exercises for open string, same finger and different finger shifts
- Embedded auxiliary notes for accurate shifting without confusing notation
- Unison exercises to reinforce and develop shifts to and from higher positions
- Includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment
- Sight-reading and rhythm pages
Includes through 3 sharps and 3 flats
Violin and viola finger patterns for both first and third positions
Exercises in unison and thirds, scales and arpeggios to help reinforce keys
Four-part Chorales
A, E, D, G and C minor
All three forms of the minor scale included
Two unison exercises reinforce each minor key - Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics
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- Treble clef for viola
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