77 Variations on Suzuki Melodies: Technique Builders

77 Variations on Suzuki Melodies: Technique Builders
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 84
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457403774

These variations on standard Suzuki melodies were written to have specific technical challenges such as vibrato, double stops, finger action, bowing techniques, shifting, harmonics, and positions. Students find great enjoyment in playing the familiar tunes in these more difficult versions.

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks: 77 Very Easy, Very Little Songs for Beginning Cellists to Sing, to Play

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks: 77 Very Easy, Very Little Songs for Beginning Cellists to Sing, to Play
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 32
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457424045

Students learn songs more quickly than they learn tunes. These 77 little songs are easy and fun to sing and play. They are graded according to finger patterns and bowings. These pieces will be a great help through the periods of boredom and frustration some students experience. They contain duet parts for teacher or other students and are ideal for group or private teaching. Violin, viola and cello books can all be used together.

Easy Songs for Shifting in the First Five Positions

Easy Songs for Shifting in the First Five Positions
Author: Kathryn Bird Kinnard
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781589512047

This new book introduces violinists to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th positions and takes the monotony out of learning. These melodies are catchy and easily memorized, utilizing repetition of each shift so that shifting is practiced many times. More fingerings are given in the first pieces of anew position and are gradually dropped as the student is expected to learn them.

Music Plus! An Incredible Collection

Music Plus! An Incredible Collection
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457408243

Music Plus! was written to provide the student with great music that is enjoyable, accessible, and that sounds reasonably complete in two voices. It is playable in like instrument groupings, or with either or both of the other instrument voices. This collection is suitable for students with reading skills comparable to those completing the Adventures in Music Reading Book 3 by William Starr. The music presents challenges in rhythm, tonality (various keys), and musical expression and also serves as a music appreciation course, inspiring the student to want to hear the entire piece. William Starr has drawn the contents from various sources, including oratorio, opera, piano, and organ.

Adventures in Music Reading for Violin

Adventures in Music Reading for Violin
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000-01-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457404283

Renowned Suzuki pedagogue William Starr continues his valuable teaching series with this third volume. The goals of this series are to help young violinists to become good sight-readers and good "working-out" readers, and to make music reading fun, with folk and classical music presented in duets for ensemble enjoyment. New keys and finger extensions are logically introduced to greatly accelerate reading in positions; especially noteworthy is the section devoted to recognition of and fingering for intervals. This is a resource book to be used again and again!

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2006-05-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457424029

Students learn songs more quickly than they learn tunes. These 77 little songs are easy and fun to sing and play. They are graded according to finger patterns and bowings. These pieces will be a great help through the periods of boredom and frustration some students experience. They contain duet parts for teacher or other students and are ideal for group or private teaching. Violin, viola and cello books can all be used together.

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks: 77 Very Easy, Very Little Songs for Beginning Violists to Sing, to Play

I Know a Fox with Dirty Socks: 77 Very Easy, Very Little Songs for Beginning Violists to Sing, to Play
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 32
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457424038

Students learn songs more quickly than they learn tunes. These 77 little songs are easy and fun to sing and play. They are graded according to finger patterns and bowings. These pieces will be a great help through the periods of boredom and frustration some students experience. They contain duet parts for teacher or other students and are ideal for group or private teaching. Violin, viola and cello books can all be used together.

Scales plus!

Scales plus!
Author: William Joseph Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781589511385

To Learn with Love

To Learn with Love
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999-11-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457403675

Practice, motivation, learning, nutrition, competition and family lifestyles are a few of the topics discussed by these experienced teachers, performers, and parents. Treasured as a handbook by many Suzuki parents!

Twenty-Six Composers Teach the Violinist

Twenty-Six Composers Teach the Violinist
Author: William Starr
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1995-11-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457403684

An invaluable collection of excerpts from solo, chamber, and orchestral literature. Covers a wide range of technical problems.