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| Picture Yourself Playing Violin (Picture Yourself) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bridgette Seidel
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 146137
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1598634488
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9781598634488
ASIN: 1598634488
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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Product Description
Welcome to Picture Yourself Playing Violin! This book and accompanying instructional DVD is the easiest way to learn the violin, because it begins at the basics with no prior musical knowledge assumed. This book/DVD package is truly intended for complete beginners?it guides you through your first steps of acquiring a violin, setting up the violin to practice, actually moving the bow and fingering hands, understanding and reading sheet music, and learning how to practice a song up to a point to where you feel comfortable performing it in front of your first audience. As part of the Picture Yourself series, this learning package provides a progression of easy-to-follow instructions with extremely helpful pictures and diagrams that demonstrate every new technique and skill you need to learn, using the same steps and methods the author uses at her music academy. Each of the eight technique-building chapters covers a major aspect of the art of playing violin; for example, how to bow the violin with the right hand, finger the violin with the left hand, read sheet music, and how to learn and perform songs in an easy to follow step-by-step style of instruction. Each lesson builds on the last and adds a new technical aspect to your repertoire. The book also contains sheet music with supportive finger and bowing markings above each note. By the end of the book, you?ll be able to play 13 songs! To help reinforce the concepts in the book, the accompanying DVD includes over an hour of tutorials demonstrating the proper posture, bowing, and fingering techniques explained in the step-by-step teaching method in the book.
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Easy to use October 7, 2008
The book covers all the basics needed to learn and maintain your violin and very easy to use. The dvd is great companion to the book as well. Recommended for any beginning violinist.
 pretty good July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a pretty good product, but the DVD is definitely a do-it-yourself job. It's a bit hard to navigate the DVD menu which is not organized very well.
"THE" Perfect Introduction April 17, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is perfect. This is the most complete, comprehensive and concise introduction to the violin available.
The book's breakdown is as follows:
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with your New Best Friend
Chapter2: Bowing Techniques
Chapter 3: Fingering Techniques
Chapter 4: Music Theory
Chapter 5: Specialty Techniques
Chapter 6: Beginner Songs
Chapter 7: History
Chapter 8: Continue the Journey
Also included is a DVD that instructs you on every concept in the book as well as a performance, with metronome, of the beginner songs.
LOVE IT!!!!! April 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a MUST HAVE to learn violin, I got this book with Mrs. Seidel's Beginner DVD Series, and we absolutly LOVE IT!!
If you want to really learn violin, get this book!!! February 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
YES!!! The PERFECT way the understand and learn violin! Take some advice from someone who has tried almost everything, GET THIS BOOK if you want to learn violin!
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