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:
- The Third Finger is the Tonic
- Up the Ladder
- Bought Me a Cat
- All the Little Hamsters
- Triads in C major, G major and D major
- Pit A Pat Rain
- Pat-A-Cake
- Tower Song
- Songs with the New Finger Pattern
- Bye, Baby Bunting
- Song of the Nightingale
- That’s One HOT Potato
- Exercise
- Spielstuck
- Children’s Song
- Ancient Dance
- Are You Sleeping? (Frere Jacques)
- The Dotted Quarter Notet
- Canon
- Five German Folk Tunes: Waltz I
- Five German Folk Tunes: Waltz II
- Five German Folk Tunes: Traditional
- Five German Folk Tunes: Birds Announcing The Spring
- The Second Finger Changes Between High and Low Positions
- Summer Song
- Spring Has Arrived
- Returning Home
- A Fiddler in the Circus
- The States Song
- Hunter’s Minuet
- Folk Dance
- Gallop Performed by Karl Gottlieb Hering
- Happy Birthday To You Performed by Patty S. Hill/Mildred Hill
- Sur Le Pont D’Avignon Performed by French Children’s Song
- Cotillon Performed by Esprit Philippe Chedeville
- Dance (Gavotte) Performed by Esprit Philippe Chedeville
- Minuet Performed by Esprit Philippe Chedeville
- Gavotte Performed by George Frideric Handel
- Rigaudon Performed by Esprit Philippe Chedeville
- The First Finger is the Lowest Note of the Chord
- Bought Me a Dog
- Folk Song
- Triads in E major, A major and B major
- Ode to Joy Performed by Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Exercises with the New Finger Pattern
- Old MacDonald
- Lightly Row
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Winter Song
- Rocky Mountain High
- Good Night Noisy Cricket
- Fast Eighth Notes
- The Hippo Song
- Down at the Station
- Changing Between High and Low Finger Positions
- Bear Dance
- The Three Finger Patterns
- Playing in Different Positions with the Three Patterns
- Double Stops
- The Second Finger is the Tonic
- Folk Tune
- Triads in F major, B-flat major and C major
- Little Peter Rabbit
- German Folk Song
- Horn Call with Echo
- Cuckoo
- Children’s Dance
- Allegretto Performed by After Bartolomeo Campagnoli
- Allons, bergers Performed by French Christmas Carol
- Sixteenth Notes
- Tenderly
- Lively
- Good Night Noisy Cricket!
- Allegro Performed by England, 18th Century
- The First Finger Changes Between High and Low Positions
- Sarabande Performed by From A Collection Of Lute Music
- Molto Allegro Performed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- From A Contredanse Performed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Two Pieces From An Historical Collection
- C major Notes in First Position
- Exercises and Pieces in C major
- Notes on the D and G strings, from Louis Spohr’s violin method Performed by Louis Spohr
- Notes on the A and E strings, from Louis Spohr’s violin method Performed by Louis Spohr
- A Little Exercise
- [Untitled] from Hubert Ries’ violin method Performed by Hubert Ries
- Two Scale Studies, from Hubert Ries’ violin method Performed by Hubert Ries
- Dance
- Allemande
- Andantino, from Beriot’s violin method Performed by Charles-Auguste De Beriot
- Trumpet Piece Performed by Leopold Mozart
- Allegretto, from Louis Spohr’s violin method Performed by Louis Spohr
- [Untitled] Performed by Hubert Ries
- Major and Minor Scales and Arpeggios Across Four Strings
