Essential Elements for Strings is a very popular book for school students. This is a book series I try to always keep in my shop also for adult learners that come by my shop. Learning the violin is a confluence of the skills of reading music, left hand and right hand motor skills and putting it all together with posture. The essential elements for strings book series is popular with schools and has in it a bit more information for someone that might want to self teach.
It has sections on posture, caring for the instrument and breaks down reading music, learning the left hand and then the right hand into chunks so that you are not trying to learn everything at once and get over whelmed. There is is also a code for online resources, it’s so important to hear a violin being played and develop that listening skills to how it should sound, to encourage and develop tone production as well.
See violin-viviolin-viola-cello-books for other books including:
- Discovering Rock Violin
- Encore on Strings Music Maestros
- Essential Elements for Strings
- Tricky Fingers