My Second Technique Book - Basic Exercises for Violin with Piano Arrangements - CD/Online Audio - by Kerstin Wartberg - Istex Music Publications

Introducing the second prequel to the highly acclaimed Enjoying Violin Technique book!

With 72 pages of exercises, smiley stickers for added motivation, 92 audio files on the included CD, and online access to videos, printable piano accompaniment PDFs, and more, My Second Technique Book will help students to progress quickly and efficiently to the intermediate level.

Kerstin Wartberg, internationally acclaimed Suzuki pedagogue and author of the popular Step-By-Step practice series, is now introducing two prequels to her groundbreaking Enjoying Violin Technique book. My First Technique Book and My Second Technique book offer the same format and brilliance of exercises, but with content that is both accessible and motivational for the beginning violinist!

Contents are clearly categorized and include:

• Warming Up
• The Third Position
• The Second Position
• The First Three Positions
• Harmonics or "Flute Tones"
• Trills
• First Vibrato Exercises
• Two-Octave Scales and Arpeggios (1st to 3rd positions)
• First Double Stops

Sample Page and Audio Clip #1: This book features numerous shifting exercises and pieces in the first three positions. When the student is able to play a piece securely and with a beautiful tone, he may put one of the included green smiley stickers on the list at the end of the book.

Sample Page and Audio Clip #2: One and two octave scales and arpeggios. Here, the student/pupil decides in which position to play the C- Major scale, and the die indicates which of the six variations is to be played.

Sample Page and Audio Clip #3: Introduction of double stops and arpeggios in connection with numerous performing options for the variations on a popular American folk song, at three practice tempi.

"Kerstin Wartberg is a leading force in Europe for teaching the violin to children. She has dedicated the last years to producing new materials for the elementary levels of string playing. Her pieces and etudes are pedagogically invaluable, engaging and all supported by lively accompaniments. Her latest two volumes are My First Technique Book and My Second Technique Book. I highly recommend to every violin teacher who teaches beginners."

- Mimi Zweig, Violin Professor and Teacher