Do-It-Yourself Violin
The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing
Do-It-Yourself Violin is a fun way to get started playing on your own. Using parts of well-known songs from Broadway to classical, pop and rock to jazz, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started and sound like a pro in no time. Includes audio tracks for demonstration, plus video instruction by violinist Henriette de Vrijer. Covers: Holding the bow and bow distribution; Reading music on the staff; Playing notes; Developing your sound; Instrument care; Professionally produced backing tracks and audio demonstrations; Video instruction and demonstration; Violin talk: specific hints just for violin players; Toolboxes: the tools you need to keep growing on your instrument.
The price of this book includes access to audio and video online, for download or streaming, using the unique code found on page 1. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right––available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
Song List:
- Allegro I, RV 269 (“Spring”)
- Amazing Grace
- America
- Au Clair De La Lune
- Auld Lang Syne
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Bad Romance
- Can Can
- Can't Help Falling In Love
- Chanson De Matin, Op. 15, No. 2
- Chasing Cars
- Colors Of The Wind
- Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, Op. 71a
- Do-Re-Mi
- Edelweiss
- The Entertainer
- Every Breath You Take
- Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
- Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
- Friend Like Me
- Funeral March
- Gymnopedie No. 1
- Habanera
- Hallelujah
- Happy Birthday To You
- Hey Jude
- In The Hall Of The Mountain King
- The Irish Washerwoman
- Kumbaya
- Largo
- Lean On Me
- Let It Go
- London Bridge
- Lullaby
- Minuet
- Minuet
- Morning Has Broken
- O Mio Babbino Caro
- Ode To Joy
- Sailing
- Solvejg's Song
- Super Trouper
- Take Five
- 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
- We Are The Champions
- We Will Rock You
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- When The Saints Go Marching In