Violin Scale Charts(TM): This Special Edition Includes Viola Scale Charts - Paperback

by John A. Sarkett (Author)

Scales become easy to remember. Here's a new teaching aid that will help you and-or your student master scales and arpeggios quickly and easily. Violin Scale Charts(tm) show scale and arpeggio patterns in graphic, chart form. This makes them easy to learn, easy to remember.Pays for itself. This new publication will pay for itself in lesson time many times over: it helps the student quickly master the basics, and move efficiently and securely, with excellent intonation, to more difficult exercises and repertory.Comprehensive. This publication presents all major and minor (melodic) scales and arpeggios in two octaves, and using various positions I-IV.Noted editors. Edited by distinguished educators.More expression, more confidence. Helps build a strong and secure "4" finger, a more beautiful tone, and stronger and more confident expression. Have fun with these charts. They will make you a more expressive, more confident musician.

Author Biography

John A. Sarkett created Violin Scale Charts(tm) in 1992 as a teaching aid for his daughter, Sharika, when she was a young Suzuki student. Her teacher saw them one day, exclaimed "you've got to publish these!", and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, thousands of aspiring violinists around the world have been assisted in their quest by Violin Scale Charts(tm). He is also the author of best-selling "Extraordinary Comebacks: 201 Inspiring Stories of Courage, Triumph, and Success," published by Sourcebooks, Naperville, Illinois (2007). Since its launch, it has consistently appeared in Amazon's Top 100 Motivation titles. "Extraordinary Comebacks" has extensive sections on both classical and pop musicians who suffered a setback, and made a remarkable comeback.