Description
Children playfully learn reliable technique at the earliest age. For more than three decades the Sassmannshaus Tradition has been the household name for excellence in beginner methods in German-speaking countries. More than half a million students have successfully learned to play using this publication.
This tried and tested German method is now available in English! The best-selling method that gave generations of European musicians their foundation is now available in English, with content and songs newly adapted for today’s English speaking children!
Contents:
- Note Values and Symbols
- Open Strings
- E String
- A String
- D String
- G String
- The Quarter Rest
- String Crossing
- More Open Strings
- Hello Mother
- I Can Play The A String
- The “Cuckoo’s Third” With the Second Finger
- What’s Your Name?
- Rain, Rain Go Away
- The Fourth Finger
- Bring Your Sled
- The Triad
- Teddy Bear
- Pat-A-Cake
- Dearest Cuckoo
- Hee-Haw!
- Pit A Pat Rain
- The First Finger
- Fuzzy Teddy Bear
- Teddy Bear, Come Home with Me!
- Little Peter Rabbit
- Hot Cross Buns
- A Finger Exercise on All Strings
- String Crossing and Fingering on Different Strings
- Ring Around the Rosy
- Bye, Baby Bunting
- Dog, Stop Barking
- We Are On Vacation Performed by Richard Rudolf Klein
- Come to the Zoo! Performed by Diethard Wucher
- The Third Finger
- Up the Ladder
- All the Little Hamsters
- Accidentals
- Scales on Two Strings
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- More Exercises, Songs and Stroke Patterns
- Good Night Noisy Cricket!
- Eighth Notes
- Bought Me a Cat
- Old Bald Eagle
- Who’s That
- Down at the Station
- Old MacDonald
- Cuckoo
- From His Famous Symphony No. 9 Performed by Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Canon
- Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques)
- Come See the Clown! Performed by Wilhelm Twittenhoff
- London Bridge
- Rocky Mountain
- New Stroke Patterns
- Whole Bows and Half Bows
- That’s One HOT Potato
- Lightly Row!
- Variation
- Slurred Notes
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- The Portato Stroke
- Eency Weency Spider
