Carl Fischer

Author: Janice Tucker Rhoda
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin

The ABCs of Violin for the Budding Virtuoso, Book 5 is the final book of the ABCs of Violin series by Janice Tucker Rhoda. Students of all ages learn advanced techniques in an easy and enjoyable way. As a direct continuation of ABCs of Violin for the More Advanced, Book 4, it covers 1st, 2nd and 3rd position techniques with classic solo favourites, familiar folk songs, warm-up exercises, studies, shifting exercises, a mordent exercise, chromatic and major and minor scales with arpeggios, intervals worksheet and practice chart. Sensitive arrangements of works by Dvorak, Franck, Rubenstein, Saint-Saens, Schubert and Sibelius, and popular melodies Cradle Song, Hava Nagila, The Farmer, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.

Song List:
Lesson 1

• Arpeggio Study - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 2
More New Flats

• The Farmer - English Folk Song
• Songs My Mother Taught Me - Antonin Dvorak
• Melody in F - Antonin Rubinstein

Lesson 3
B Major and Raised Sharps

• Cradle Song - Virginia Croft
• Le Cygne (The Swan) - Camille Saint-Saens

Lesson 4
Bb Major Scale Shifting to Third Position

• When Irish Eyes are Smiling - Irish Folk Song
• Paganini Presto - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 5
Shifting Exercises

Lesson 6

• Kreutzer Study No. 2 - Rodolphe Kreutzer

Lesson 7
Basic Intervals

• Hava Nagila - Hasidic Melody

Lesson 8
The Mordent

• Ave Maria - Franz Schubert

Lesson 9
Chromatic Studies

• Capriccio - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 10
New Flats (Mordent)

• Improvisation III - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 11
D Harmonic Minor Scale

• Baroque Study No. 2 - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 12
Bb Major Scale in Second Position

• Moto Perpetuo - J.T. Rhoda
• Appassionata - J.T. Rhoda

Lesson 13
My Favorite Melodies in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Position

• O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam
• Finlandia - Jean Sibelius
• Panis Angelicus - Cesar Frank

Practice Planner