Carl Fischer ABCs of Violin - Advanced (Book + CD)

The ABCs of Violin for the Advanced, Book 3 features learning 3rd position with melodies, warm-up exercises, study pieces, scales and arpeggios, and many graphs to show new left-hand finger placement, a note-reading worksheet and practice chart. Spiccato bowing technique, trills and double stops are introduced in a logical, easy to learn manner along with 3rd position covering all 4 strings.

The special mp3/data insert consists of three components: 37 mp3 performance pieces of violin with piano accompaniments, piano accompaniment tracks by themselves for play-along, and a printable pdf file of the piano accompaniments. The ABCs of Violin Easy Piano Accompaniment for Book 3, on the CD, will help facilitate practice and recital performance. Performances by violinist Emil Altschuler and pianist Artem Belogurov.

37 lovely melodies abound like Mozart's Symphony No. 40, Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, Scotland's Annie Laurie, France's Sur Le Pont D'Avignon and Germany's Ach, Du Lieber Augustin. Beautiful original pieces by Janice Tucker Rhoda including Longing for the Russian Homeland, George Washington, Singing Strad and Fiddler's Holiday are student recital favorites.