Violin For Dummies helps you teach yourself to play the violin, even if you've never read a note of music. From choosing the right violin for you to playing a variety of musical styles, this book has you covered. You'll start with the basics of posture and bowing technique, learn how to tune your instrument and keep it in beautiful condition with regular maintenance. You'll learn how to read — and feel — the music, and how to inject your own personality into whatever you play. Before you know it, you'll be playing classical, jazz, country, and more, as you become a bona fide violin player. The included audio and video instruction encourages you to play along as you learn, and allow you to hear, see, and imitate proper technique.

The violin's small size, portability, and mimicry of the human voice have made it popular across cultures and throughout time. This book shows you how to teach yourself the basics so you can start playing quickly.

• Start with the basics of proper hold and bowing technique
• Learn how to properly tune and care for your violin
• Understand the nuances of rhythm and musical notation
• Play classical, jazz, and other popular styles of music

The violin has a reputation of being difficult to learn, but the reality is that it's difficult to master. Anyone can learn, and practice over time will refine your technique and your musical style. You'll have fun, make music, and maybe even fall in love with this instrument that has inspired some of the world's best musicians and composers. Get started today, the easy way, with Violin For Dummies.

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***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***

"A very intuitive, easy to understand book. I recommend it to all my students and with practice, hear and see their results." - G. Hennessy

Progressive Beginner Violin contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great violin player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson violin tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of violins including electric violin for beginners. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the violin is required to teach yourself to learn to play violin from this book.

Teach yourself:
• How to play violin notes for beginners and violin scales for beginners
• All essential right and left hand techniques including how to hold the violin, various bowing techniques and how to play pizzicato
• How to play scales, melodies and studies in major and minor keys
• Easy to understand violin music theory including key signatures, time signatures, note values and rests needed for reading violin music for beginners
• Violin tuning
• Violin tips and violin tricks that every player should know when learning violin
• Shortcuts for how to learn violin fast by getting the most from violin practice sessions

Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the violin today.

Features include:
• Progressive step-by-step easy beginners fiddle lessons written by a professional violin teacher
• Easy-to-read violin music
• Full color photos and diagrams
• 64 violin exercises and popular easy violin songs for beginners in classical violin, world music fiddle, bluegrass fiddle and folk fiddle styles

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Finger Exercises for the Violin, Book One presents a series of exercises that train the first or second-year violinist’s left hand in strength and agility in first position. With sections that focus on "high second finger", "low second finger", and "high third finger", these studies are a great way to build muscle memory and work on intonation. Each exercise focuses on a pattern that can be used to help your fingers feel less awkward in first position.

If you want faster fingers on the violin, playing one or two of these Finger Exercises is a great way to build your technique and improve your finger speed. The book is useful for basic daily training that can work along with a method or repertoire. While not intended for a complete beginner, the exercises can be played by advanced-beginning students who know first position notes on all four strings. These exercises have distilled pure technique into short studies that can help improve your first-position playing in just a few minutes a day.