![]() They improve on current published options with a more practical focus, user-friendly text and illustrations for clarity of explanation, especially for younger students. Music theory can and should be accessible to beginning violinists too! Developed by an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Violin, these workbooks of sequential music theory concepts are written to blend with and overlay popular beginners’ teaching methods such as Essential Elements, All for Strings, A Tune A Day, and the Suzuki method. Most violin students will only achieve a rudimentary understanding of these concepts if they continue their studies to an advanced-intermediate level, if even then. “Intervals,” “triads” and “tetrachords” are terms and concepts that are introduced in most first year piano methods, and the Circle of Fifths is a handy and accessible tool for intermediate piano students and up. Meanwhile, the violinists’ piano-studying peers have sequential theory workbooks to go along with every lesson book. There is only one popular commercial string method book series in North America that even includes a dedicated theory workbook. ![]() Read Moreģ3 of 58 people found this review helpful.ĭeAnne P.Music Theory (“the study of how music works” – Wikipedia) can be a bit of a mystery to violin students. There are terms and concepts out of nowhere which you are going to need to explain before the student attempts the work. If you use any other method book, you will find concepts poppling up that you probably have not reached yet in your lessons.There are games and puzzle pages that involve other knowledge that younger students will not have yet encountered, such as long division.This is in no way a book that you can just assign pages to your student and then send them on home to do. These books are obviously intended to only be used with the All for Strings method. It makes it hell to correct the pages, especially if you.Īre in a classroom setting. As you do this, you will discover why they haven't produced one: there are too many answers that have various correct responses. There is no teacher answer key copy available for sale, so you must make your own. 00:00:00.0 Lots of problems with this book.Read MoreĢ4 of 54 people found this review helpful.Īnonymous Difficulty Level: Early intermediate ![]() But I'm still unsure if I think that is worth all of the trouble I've listed above. On the plus side, this series is cheap, and it does cover a lot of information. It is all well and good that children learn to read directions thoroughly, but this isn't really the place to work on that. ![]() I teach piano as well as strings, and *I* was making mistakes.The directions are a bit complex and involved. A minor, but real.īeef, is that on all of the keyboard charts (and there are many- the book states to the student that it is important to relate the pitches on the violin to the keyboard), the black keys are not filled in. This is in no way a book that you can just assign pages to your student and then send them on home to do. Read Sheet Music Plus's complete Privacy Policy.If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us. All submitted reviews become the licensed property of Sheet Music Plus and are subject to all laws pertaining thereto. ![]() If you have any suggestions or comments on the guidelines, please email us.
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