Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
This book/CD combination is designed for the beginning violin or fiddle student. It's clearly illustrated with many diagrams and exercises to develop good bowing technique and to learn how to play in tune with the left hand. The easy to follow, step by step instruction makes this the perfect book/CD for school orchestra programs or group instruction. The songs include Alphabet Song, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, When The Saints Go Marching In, Red River Valley, Sunday Waltz, and Seagulls & Seals. All songs are written in Standard music notation and played at two speeds on the accompanying CD (slow for practice and up tempo for performing)

Rating : - Quite Good
I've just started taking violin lessons and bought this (plus a couple of other) books/primers. This one is quite good. The instruction is clear for the most part (learning how to hold the violin and the bow and how to begin is quite difficult and I can't imagine doing that from just a book like this - I started taking private lessons 1 time a week and this book has been a good supplement). Of particular use to me was the tuning guide showing which piano keys to use to tune the violin's four strings....other primers similar to this one have been nowhere near as clear in some of the basics.