The exercises below give you shifting, position, and bowing exercises that help you master this intermediate viola...
Viola Teaching Posts
Mini Open String Workouts for Viola, Part Three!
We are excited to release Open String Bow Workouts for Viola, Book Three! Focusing on bow control, this book has...
Another Free Christmas Solo/Duet for Strings: Ding, Dong Merrily on High!
Make the Christmas season special with another free Christmas Solo/Duet for strings! Ding, Dong Merrily on High is...
Free Christmas Solo and Duet: Good Christian Men, Rejoice! (In dulci jubilo)
Three new Christmas books were just released! The Advent study books give you 25 warm-up exercises, solos and duet...
Introducing Our Newest Music Clip! Plus, Other Solutions for Keeping Pesky Music Books Open!
We teach with and practice with hard-to-open music books too. It has been so difficult to keep them open that we have...
7 Ways Duets Can Make Teaching (and Studying) Easier!
I had been teaching for a couple of years before I realized that there are a number of ways that duets can make...
Better Bowing Articulation: Free Mini Open-String Workouts for Viola, Book Two!
About a month after I wrote Open String Bow Workouts for the Viola, Book One, back at the end of 2019, I got the first...
Forked Deer: Free Mini Fiddle Tune Booklet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass!
All of the music was ready. The snacks, the chairs, the stands; we were ready for anything. Myanna and I had spent...
Improve Your Viola Bowing: Free Mini Open String Workouts
This past year Theresa Villani, a wonderful cellist and cello teacher, wrote and asked if I had any exercises for...
Beginning Solo In the Style of O Come Little Children
When a teacher mentioned that her student wasn’t allowed to play O Come Little Children because of religious reasons...
Free Viola Scale Bowing Variations
I love the fact that scales are such a great vehicle for learning different skills on the viola! Scales can and should...