Piano Part for Violin Friends Violin Method Book 1: 41 Simplified Piano Parts

41 Simplified Piano Parts

Teach violin with the popular Violin Friends Method. With easy-to read, progressive repertoire this comprehensive three-volume method is widely used in classroom and private studios.

Piano Part for Violin Friends Method Book Volume1 is a fun and colorful collection of great music for the beginner violin player, presenting music from:

W.A. Mozart
G.F. Handel
H. Purcell
L.van Beethoven
I. Komarovsky
J.S. Bach
Children's songs from Europe and America

Songs are presented in a pedagogical order in the similar style of the Suzuki violin books.

The Method Book 1 starts with warming-up exercises and aims at creating playful inspiration for the student and teacher. The music follows in a pedagogically progressive order after each new scale. Ideas concerning natural movements to help build up an effortless playing technique are presented as warming-up exercises with corresponding YouTube

Benefits for teachers include one book that combines all the essential elements in string teaching: warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, great music that inspires students, and a time-saving teaching method that makes teaching easy and more fun.

All Violin Friends music is easily learnable with the help of simplified piano parts, Youtube play- along videos on the Violin Friends Youtube channel, and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud and the Violin Friends homepage www.violinfriends.com.

"Violin Friends by Lauri H?m?l?inen is a lovely series of violin books for beginners. You will find innovative teaching methods for the basics of violin playing for young students. The books come with instrument-specific preparatory exercises, familiar songs, scales and small etudes as well as arrangements of masterpieces by great composers. Most of the pieces are arranged for a duo or trio, so the young beginners can enjoy playing together right from the start. Additionally there is a Violin Friends - YouTube channel, where you can find engaging play alongs to all the pieces in the books. This series is really a great resource for young violin players and their teachers!"
Andrea Holzer-Rhomberg (author of the Fiedel-Max-series)

"Violin Friends series by Lauri H?m?l?inen are fun and useful books for beginners and children to learn violin. The books are colourful with lots of interesting drawings. There are lots of duets and ensembles that players can play and enjoy music together. Violin Friends is an inspiring material for teachers and students to have!"
Dr.Heng-Ching Fang, Musician, Teacher, Academic Researcher & Translator (BMus, PGDip, MMus, PhD)

Other publications in this series include:

11 Children's Songs for Strings and Piano

11 Children's Songs for The Young Stars Orchestra

12 Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star for Strings and Piano

Eight Trios for Violin (Universal Edition)

The Amazing Violin Comics - Tips for practicing and mental images for learning stringed instruments

Let's Play, Together!