Complete Technique for Viola Book 1 Author:Janice Tucker Rhoda From the author of the popular�ABCs of Strings�method, Janice Tucker Rhoda's�Complete Technique for Viola suits the advanced beginner to upper level student wishing to learn or improve left hand and right bow-arm skills. Starting in first position, and proceeding carefully through the higher positions, this method book uses studies and exercises... more » to demonstrate specific technical ideas.�400 Exercises include 45 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5. Technique Highlights:
*Worksheets for note-reading
*Scales, arpeggios, broken thirds
*Improvisational melodies
*Double-Stops, chords, octaves
*Harmonics
*Hammock Swing left-hand and
bow-arm technique
*Bow balancing exercises
*Ballet of Shifting exercises
*Quick Finger exercises
*Finger Substitution exercises
*Left-hand pizzicato exercises
*Teaching points throughout*Alto Clef and Treble Clef�« less