Learn the Suzuki Violin Book Series - Like A Pro!
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Whether your instrument is Violin, Viola, or Cello, the Suzuki book series is a great way to improve your skills and sharpen your technique and musicality. Join Joel Kennedy as he goes over why he believes the Suzuki Violin Books are a great resource to learn violin for a beginning and intermediate player.
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Awesome video! I will get these books.
I still go back to my Suzuki (Viola - the best of all instruments despite the moronic idiocy spread by TwoSet) books after I've taken time off from playing and use them to get myself back up to speed by quickly working through almost every song until I get back to the level I was at. I then continue to use the books to progress on from there. It really is such a good method for making progress in your playing.
Could you do a review of the essential elements book 1 if you havent already? I think I will get the suzuki book 1 next month. I have recently got some beginner violin books, i've been playing for 2 months now. I'm using essential elements book 1 and I have got fiddle time joggers book.
Yes, I plan on doing a video on the essential elements books next. I know that that series of books is quite popular and we sell a lot of them.
Awesome video!! I recently started getting back to playing my violin and started to use the books. I was wondering how long or time frame should one take with each book
And how would one know when to move on to then next level book?
Thank you!!!
Well, that's a tough question because there's so many factors involved. Obviously, if you have some familiarity with music to begin with and you have a teacher, you will go through the books much more quickly and probably with better technique. However, if you on the opposite end of the scale and don't really have any musical experience and don't have a teacher then it'll probably take at least twice as long. When I was teaching the Suzuki books to my students, the average pace was one song every two weeks and they would be working on two songs at the same time. Therefore, they would learn the fundamentals of one piece and then polish it up the second week while they were learning the fundamentals of a new piece so there was always overlapping. This is a pace that's considered fairly quick but that was one of my specialties, was advancing students rapidly. So, I think 3 weeks per piece if you're working pretty hard should be totally sufficient. This is assuming that your fundamental technique is decent. Now, when the songs get much more complicated, like in later parts of book three and book four, then twice as much time we'll probably be needed to play the them at a decent level. Basically, you should be able to play the pieces at a reasonable pace without any major mishaps and be able to do that consistently before you'd want to move on to a new song. This sounds like a video I should make!
@@KennedyViolins awesome!!! thanks for your response!!
A video would be great, but your response really helps with understanding the time frame
I've been trying to learn to play the violin myself. It's been hard trying to get started. I am struggling with identifying the notes
Well, remember that with the Suzuki series of books, you learn with fingerings and not notes and this speeds things up. And during this process, you can, regardless of which book you're using, write in some of the notes of the music that you're playing. This will help reinforce what the notes are. So, I would start with writing in the open strings notes on your music here and there and then filling in some other notes as you get better at it. Eventually, they'll be just a few notes that you won't identify immediately but it's a gradual process
I'm curious what violin you are playing
To tell you the truth I'm not exactly sure. I'm not in my studio right now but I think it's a David Yale violin or a Vitacek master series. Remember, I'm a violist so if a violinist was playing the violin I'm sure it would sound a lot better!
@@KennedyViolins Thanks. I'll look those up. I'm new to this channel, so I didn't know that you are a violist 😄