While I was at the library today, I also picked up "The Suzuki Violinist" which, while dated, has a wealth of information in it. That's great, lovely to have someone to work through this with! Is anyone else using this (or any other) Suzuki book? I know it is intended for use by a team of teacher-parent-student, and it may be tricky to be my own teacher/parent, so I'm interested to hear how others have fared! So this should make it less of a mindless repetition each day, and more of a useful skill-building exercise. and which appear to introduce techniques needed for the later songs. when it's the only thing you can play it does get a bit stale!) which should spice up practice a bit. Today I found over a dozen variations on the dreaded Twinkle (well, dreaded to me. As juvenile as it may be, I plan on using some of these tactics to enhance my own practice! I had none of this as a kid, just the black and white pages of the Suzuki book with its very old photos. Something which has surprised me in my online investigations of Suzuki education more recently has been the vast amount of colourful materials created for keeping kids motivated - charts and beads and so on for keeping track of practice repetitions, dice and jenga games and fortune tellers and spinners etc. However, there were quite a few ways in which the instruction I had was un-Suzuki-like, if one can say such a thing! I did not have access to recordings of the pieces to listen to (didn't even know a CD/tape existed! Now, thanks to YouTube I have lots of samples), I started at around 11ish years of age, rather than younger (I'm in a much 'worse' position now :P) and my parents weren't involved at all (I guess I now have the advantage of an adult's motivation - my own). I've reserved Suzuki's Nurtured By Love from my library, as I'm interested in finding out more about this method which, I know, has aroused some controversy.įrom what I can tell so far, the instruction I was exposed to in the past was Suzuki in some ways (obviously, we used the Suzuki books, and learning to play by following demonstrations (and hence, I guess, improving the ear?) rather than note-reading was prioritised). Is there anyone else with a similar goal in mind? If "play" button icon is greye unfortunately this score does not contain playback functionality.After almost 2 decades away from the violin, having not gotten very far in the first place, I've set myself the challenge of finishing Suzuki Book 1. Simply click the icon and if further key options appear then apperantly this sheet music is transposable.Īlso, sadly not all music notes are playable. In order to check if 'I Don't Know How To Love Him' can be transposed to various keys, check "notes" icon at the bottom of viewer as shown in the picture below. * Not all our sheet music are transposable. When this song was released on it was originally published in the key of. Be careful to transpose first then print (or save as PDF). If your desired notes are transposable, you will be able to transpose them after purchase. If you selected -1 Semitone for score originally in C, transposition into B would be made. This means if the composers started the song in original key of the score is C, 1 Semitone means transposition into C#. If it is completely white simply click on it and the following options will appear: Original, 1 Semitione, 2 Semitnoes, 3 Semitones, -1 Semitone, -2 Semitones, -3 Semitones. You can do this by checking the bottom of the viewer where a "notes" icon is presented. Most of our scores are traponsosable, but not all of them so we strongly advise that you check this prior to making your online purchase. If not, the notes icon will remain grayed. If transposition is available, then various semitones transposition options will appear. In order to transpose click the "notes" icon at the bottom of the viewer. After you complete your order, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail where a download link will be presented for you to obtain the notes. This week we are giving away Michael Buble 'It's a Wonderful Day' score completely free.
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