Product Description

This DVD is perfect for new violin students of all ages, teachers and parents. Covers violin and bow positions, tuning, attaching the shoulder rest, using the mute, pizzicato, finger graphs, counting, the metronome and instrument maintenance. Easy play-along with Mary had a Little Lamb and A Major Scale. Performance pieces include Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Arkansas Traveler, A Shakespeare Play and Home on the Range.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10356 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-23
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

About the Actor
Janice Tucker Rhoda, whose biography is included in Marquis Who's Who in the World, has designed her path-breaking instruction series, The ABCs of Strings, to encourage students of all ages to play the Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass. Ms. Rhoda is an alumna of the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School and College in Boston, Massachusetts where her teacher was well-known violinist and pedagogue, Eric Rosenblith, protégé of Carl Flesch. She has taught students to play the violin for over 30 years and was a past director of the Suzuki Program at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Presently she gives regular Teacher Training seminars at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed in Harvard Square. Hundreds of students have enjoyed her Violin for the Absolute Beginner and ABCs of Duets classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed and Boston Center for Adult Ed.

Customer Reviews

not worth buying
This starts out very slow, with slowly going over parts of the bow and holding the bow. Then finally you play Mary had a Little Lamb. Then the rest is just a 'concert' of her playing.

The accompanying CD is even worse IMHO - just some of the music in the book, no announcement or commentary or even enough pause between the tracks, and then again her 'concert'

Grat Value
This was just what I was looking for grat value and price for the beginner.

This is a good teaching DVD!!
This is a very good DVD to learn from. If you like me and had no idea what an "E" note was and have know no idea what a rosin is this DVD is good for you. This will teach you everything a stater needs to learn. So if u have know no idea what you are doing or even where to start then this is the DVD for you.