Suzuki Viola School, Vol 2
$9.00
| Publisher : | SUZUKI; 00-0242S edition (December 1, 1999) |
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| Language : | English |
| Sheet music : | 32 pages |
| ISBN-10 : | 0874872421 |
| ISBN-13 : | 978-0874872422 |
| Item Weight : | 4 ounces |
| UNSPSC-Code : | Report an incorrect code |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #479 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) |
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| Customer Reviews: | 287 ratings |
42 reviews for Suzuki Viola School, Vol 2
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Concise yet easy to read and understand
This is the perfect book for those who want to do more than just play chords.
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Good for new ones or more advanced
Easy to play notes and chords good for newer one like me.
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Easy for absolute beginners
I have been playing the ukulele for 3 weeks and having never played any musical instrument before in my life – I believe that makes me an absolute beginner. I love how easy it was to start playing the songs in this book. Made me feel like I could actually play something that was more advanced than children’s nursery rhymes. The tabs are a lifesaver and help me out enormously as I struggle to read musical notes. Definitely recommend this book for anyone who wants to expand their repertoire as they learn.
One person found this helpful
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Uke book, for the uke… with fun songs
All the songs in this book fit the uke with its standard tuning of GCEA (high G). Some of the other books I looked at seem to have just taken guitar melodies and then put UKE chords on top, but the melodies then fell off the range of the instrument you have so are unplayable. Not so with this one. Every note is playable on the uke (tabs are provided) and all the lyrics are given. I never saw some of these verses before (btw, turns out that Tom Dooley guy was a jerk after all). This is a great book for sing alongs. Lots of fun tunes: “I walk the line”, “house of the rising sun”, “all my loving”.
8 people found this helpful
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Fun song book
I’m a beginner ukulele player and I’m enjoying this book. The songs are fairly easy to play. The book has both notes and tabs which is convenient.
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A great start for new uke players, even better for experienced stringed instrument players.
for an inexpensive beginner uke book, it’s great. There are some really good songs in here and the chord guides through each song and tablature for note playing comes quick, especially if you’ve toyed with guitar for some considerable time. You’ll be playing the uke immediately. A few songs by the Beatles and Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and more. The tablature helps you get the tune if you’re not familiar with a song.
One person found this helpful
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Easy ukulele book
Great beginner’s ukulele song book. Nice large notes and writing.
One person found this helpful
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Nice book.
Great for beginners!
One person found this helpful
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Good but not for everyone.
The Bad: I am a music instructor and try and avoid using TAB with beginners. I try and get them to use the black dots…so, as this book contains TAB I would only use it with experienced students or adults who want to work on melody. Thus, the 3 star rating because I can’t use it for everybody I teach.The Good: The songs are cool! It is a good supplement to the Ukulele Book 1 so if you are purchasing that book, this is a good add on to your purchase. If you are a TAB reader, it is fine.
7 people found this helpful
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This is just right
I am a beginner, and this book is just perfect to carry around with me and practice. I don’t have to worry about charging up my laptop to find ukelele chord music to play outside or in my car or whatever. The only problem is that I have to stop to turn the pages. I don’t have to do that with my laptop. But I like the freedom and light weight of a book. The songs are classic in this book, and great to learn.
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good book
I have the method 1 book and want to continue. Method 1 made it very easy to learn notes and chords
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great
This product it is really helpful, for a beginner UKU player, i really recommend it.I start using it, and is easy, since i got it, i play and play my UKU
9 people found this helpful
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familiar songs. simple to learn.
bought the easy songs and the method books 1 and 2. easy to follow and learn. familiar songs. great price.
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I feel it’s a useless book for someone learning tab
I play several instruments, but have never learned a string instrument before, so I decided to start learning the ukulele. The book starts by defining very simple music terms which I found silly (like “verse” and “chorus”), But it gives absolutely NO explanation of how to play the tablature. I have no clue what all the numbers on the four lines listed as TAB even mean. I wish it gave SOME kind of explanation of how it all worked. I feel it’s a useless book for someone learning tab.
2 people found this helpful
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A Great Way to Start!
I bought this songbook for my beginning Ukulele students. I love the tabulature in addition to the notes. It’s a perfect way to learn the fingerings while learning to read the music, words, & chords. The songs are all familiar. I think it is a good supplement to any instruction books.
16 people found this helpful
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Worth picking up
If you are a beginner, this is really worth picking up. Lots of great songs, like “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry,” (Come back, Hank Williams…)
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Four Stars
My daughter says it could benefit from some more contemporary selections.
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Enjoying This Book
I don’t love every song in this book but I do like most of them. The chords are mostly easy and great for establishing a foundation. This book and the
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were a gift for my wife last month and she sounds great playing the songs.
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Great beginners guild for learning the ukulele and playing songs
Great beginners guild for learning the ukulele and playing songs. Simple and easy to follow. Don’t give up and you will be able to play fairly quickly. Very fun instrument.
2 people found this helpful
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Four Stars
Good song book for Uke
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Don’t get this on your kindle.
I’m a beginner uke player. Some of these songs are easy for me, but others provide a good stretch. However the kindle format means you have to turn pages to play the entire piece. You can make the image larger, but that cuts off part of the page. I suggest buying the book. I do love the Hal Leonard Fast Track books for uke and harmonica. I’m going to order this one in paper.
4 people found this helpful
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A good basic book for beginners
wide song selection. easy to see cheats, Print is very dark and high contrast – you can see all the notes even if slightly buzzed on mai tais. Not all the tunes are going to be your faves but you will probably like half of them. Not bad for a book with twenty songs. With the notation, I expect that this book would be very good for duets, one fingerpicking and one strumming.
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Great for Beginner Uke Players
My daughter loves it and has now learned most of the songs.
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Ukulele book
I bought a ukulele for my grand-daughter. I grew up with the guitar, I don’t know how to play the ukulele, this books has the fingering charts, however, I’m not sure what sounds are correct…so, the book is great, but the player (me), I still don’t know what I’m doing.
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Just OK
This book is definitely for a beginner. You can actually get most of this type material for free on the Internet if you will just do a little searching. But the book does serve its purpose and it is a good purchase if you would rather have a book than trying to find some similar material on the Internet. It also makes a nice gift if someone is receiving a ukulele for the first time.
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The Internet Really Makes This Obsolete
When I bought my first ukulele two years ago, I purchased this songbook. What a mistake. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with the songs. Each title includes sheet music for piano with easy to read ukulele chord diagrams. And the most difficult chord in any of the songs is a B flat–and that isn’t that tough to master. You also get complete lyrics.So what’s the problem? There are only twenty songs, and not a lot of variety: five Beatles songs, two songs each from Elvis, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. Truth to tell, I haven’t opened this songbook since the day it arrived. There are numerous websites where you can print practically any song you want. Why would you spend good money on this? And this songbook says nothing about strum patterns. Overall, it’s just not very helpful. It was a rookie mistake on my part. I wish I had my money back.
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Easy read and to learn the songs
Such a easy to read and learn uke book. I love that’s it tabs. I don’t play often so not good at uke or guitar but this is a book I can play the songs and pick up no matter how long it’s been since playing
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Easy pop tone for uke
Pro – I like the strings with the number of the fret on it as well as the chord bars shown for the songs with the words.Con – It could tell you when to play the chords and with what strumming pattern as well as when the picking comes back on. This could be used as a duet with one person strumming the chords while the other person does the picking.
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I love that this has the tabs
I love that this has the tabs. It makes it easy for almost anyone to pick up and play. The songs are great, a nice variety of genres.
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Ladies and Germs, I present….
Good book. Songs are easy and fun. Hell, if I could play everyone of these songs well, I’d be a hit at any party.
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Not much Popular Songs
I was expecting popular songs – old and new, but it is the kind of a song book that is nice to have but will be not be in use. I wish for song books like this, there is a way to view the lists of songs.
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Loving the Hal Leonard series!
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Four Stars
Everything we need to learn simple Ukulele and have fun.
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Purchased for Self
I did not recognize too many of the songs, and there was not very much variation to the music being played. I recommend using online music/chords/tabs if you want more popular, up-to-date music, or even easy songs like these in the book
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It wasn’t what I was looking for.
The book is probably a good book but it wasn’t what I was looking for. I was looking for the old folk songs I learned to play on the ukelele on but the songs in this book were too modern for me.
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Four Stars
Still learning to play.
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Good book but not for me (yet)
I bought this thinking I can start learning my daugther’s ukulele that she no longer wants. Boy was I wrong ! This book is great, in my opinion once I find the Ukulele for Dummies or Ukulele 101 book.
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Love this book
The little diagrams with the dots above where you change cords is just what I was looking for. You don’t have to memorizethe D cord, or the C cord, etc. Much easier to play songs without much memorizing.
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decent songs
has couple of cool songs in here, tells you chords, not that great of a selection though, but im happy.
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Good book
Good book. It has good songs, but I wish it had more classic songs.It also makes u rate the book and you can’t get out of it so I’m giving it a lower score.
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very good
Great songs, but there are easier versions out there. I am a very new beginner and found some of the cords difficult but all in all this is a great book of songs
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Wonderful!
This is the best book for beginners! It has tabs too. It’s got the song “walk the line” and “your cheating heart”
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A beginners delight
This is a very useful book for the beginner.It is written very well with this in mind.I recommend it highly.It arrived in very good time,packed to perfection,and in first class condition
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useful for uke players
I enjoy trying popular songs on the ukulele. Especially when the chord diagrams make it easy to figure out how to play the chords on the uke! More like this.. please!
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Good Beginning Songbook
This book has a lot of good eawsy songs for the beginning player. It should be used witth the Hal Leonard Ukulele Method, Book 1 to teach students, or yourself, to read notes (or tabs) which ultimately will lead to a better more advanced uke player. The songs can also be played just with chords.
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The book is okay but the song aren’t all that great
I just wanted to learn to play the Ukulele for fun and bought this in addition to the Uke which came with it’s own book and DVD. This book is okay but the songs are more on the lame side. It was cheap enough but I don’t think I’d buy it again knowing what I know now.
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Starter book
This song book is a little thin on music and chord charts, it was a good starting point for me but i needed several other books to really get enjoyment out of this purchase.
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Easy to follow
This is a great songbook for ukulele beginner; with the pictures of the chords right above the text / notations and the selection of the songs almost “guaranteed you will know”, as a complete beginner I had a blast trying them all on the 1st day I picked a ukulele into my hand
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ukelele song book
I was disappointed that the book was more suited for adults than an 8 yr old child who was beginning to play. The instructions were good, but I did not think I could give it to him b/c of the song selections. Age appropriateness would be good to lidt with this item. Thank you.
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Great for learning!
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Good songs
Like the songs good for a beginner like me~
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Perfect for beginners
Ecellent and easy to follow.
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great book
I purchased this book in hopes it would help me learn to play the ukulele. There are a lot of great songs in this book. Now I just have to learn to read and play them.
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Songs that are fun to Play !!!
Great little book that is loaded with songs that are fun to play on my Ukulele.
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Great for the Novice..
This is a nice book to have for your first song book. Call me old fashion but I like a songbook instead of having to hunt songs on the internet. For the money its a good deal.
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Okay
Nice, simple, with the chords, tabs, and lyrics. Don’t like that you have to stop and turn pages. They could have avoided this easily and included more CURRENT songs. Other than that, it’s okay.
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Four Stars
Good.
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Good basics for Uke
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Very Cheaply made but works
I have to leave the back stand out all the time, because it is made so cheaply, however IT DOES WORK, just don’t open and close it to many times.
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Excellent blueprint, here are some tips…
This is not a “so you want to rock” book you find at the music store chain, this is to drumming what sanding and joinery is to a woodworker. Anybody that calls themselves a drummer has this hurdle to climb, a must for a serious drummer. My 1st teacher gave me this and “Stick Control” in the 1981 when I started taking drum lessons. I wasn’t sure why I was learning to swing when the trend was rock, but I soon found myself deconstructing every song into these patterns. This book is written in jazz notation, meaning that it does not include the ride cymbal and hi-hat patterns in every bar. You should be able to play all of these patterns with a swing ride (dotted eight note) and the hit-hat on 2 and four. It sounds easy, but playing straight 8th or 16th notes on the left hand while swinging in triplet time on the right can really be frustrating. Make sure to reverse your hands after you’ve mastered your dominant technique, this breaks the limb dependance. My teacher told me that I should be relaxed enough to be able to play all of these patterns and recite the gettysburg address at the same time. This book unravels rhythm in a way that has been duplicated, but never matched over the years.
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A Classic Drum Book
This book is a must for any serious drummer. It was written a long time ago but has stood the test of time.
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Ted Reed – Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer [Paperback]
Great Book.MANY MANY Professional SESSION drummers have worked out of this book, and teach from it as well.Page 38This page most session guys know by heart. Just take a lesson from one and ask them about it. Theyll play it off of the top of their head.OK – why is this book great?First: It very much gives you Jazz phrasing / rhythms in a nut shell. These rhythmic figures are very Jazz language based / representative. There are MANY ways to use these rhythms – you need a GOOD teacher to show you how. There is so much to apply this to, it just goes on and on.Buy this book and The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary As Taught by Alan Dawson. Alans book goes into detail on the MANY ways to use Ted Reeds syncopation.Ask any professional Jazz drummer, and theyll say the same (OR MAYBE) they WONT until YOU PAY THEM FOR A PRIVATE LESSON. Well, now you know for free. Go knock yourself out and woodshed. When it pays off thank me for this review.best of luck, have fun with it.
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One of the best
I started using this book when I first took lessons about 45 years ago and after 2 years of lessons I got tired of reading and just wanted to play by ear which I have done on and off ever since. About a year or so ago I decided to start learning how to read again and started taking lessons to do so. We use a variety of different books and when I am having trouble playing something I find that I will constantly come back to this book to practice the exercises that pertain to the problems I am having. I probably refer back to this book more than any other book I have and I think it is great for any level of skill or ability that you have. I regret not keeping up on reading like I should have years ago but it’s never too late to continue to learn and I highly recommend this book to anyone just beginning or who has been playing for years. It’s only 8 bucks!
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I bought this copy of the book as a gift to a friend who is interested in percussion playing and he is getting great use out of
My first copy of this book dates back to 1978. I’ve been playing drums for 36 years and still find this book helpful. The book contains the basics, but it is incredibly versitile and limited only by your imagination. One can take the patterns and split them up between different limbs. The book can be used as snare drums parts over a jazz feel beat. You can take some of the patterns and play them on the bell of the cymbal while playing a samba beat. You can use the patterns as drum fills at varying speeds, drums and styles. I reccomend this book to both the beginner and expert drum players. I bought this copy of the book as a gift to a friend who is interested in percussion playing and he is getting great use out of the book.
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Indispensable
The thing I love about good drumming instructional books is they never go obsolete and are always adaptable to different systems and methods of teaching. For example one can play through the book using Moeller strokes or orchestrate the exercises around the kit to make the manual endlessly helpful.
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Classic
A classic book for drummers.
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An essential addition to the drummer’s “biblical” cannon.
Reed’s Syncopation is an endlessly challenging method book. It teaches control of time, feel and dynamics. It is especially useful for drummers who can use the various syncopated figures to play “against” ostinato rhythms.Other musicians can also benefit from the contents of this text. Although percussion notation (e.g. snare drum note heads in the “c”space) is used throughout the book, any player can adapt the figures to their own instrument, e.g. interpreting the rhythms as progressions within a scale or mode.Another aspect of this book is its suitability for all levels of players. Beginners will appreciate its “progressive” difficulty (easy to challenging) and more advanced players will see endless possibilities for rhythmic adventures.Beginners should use this book with a competent teacher, as it is easy to imagine that there is not much going on with each example.Highly recommended.
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One very important thing to note is that no book can take the place of a good teacher. The book even states this
Yes. This book on syncopation has helped me understand beats and measures.Understanding beats and measures helps with timing. One very importantthing to note is that no book can take the place of a good teacher. Thebook even states this. I am currently taking lessons with a good teacher.The book, teacher, and practice all go together. The book has lessonsand practice sections which the teacher and I go over together.
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MUST HAVE
Must have book for anyone serious about mastering their rhythm skills. Originally created for drummers but applicable to many instruments. I use it for guitar playing. Challenge yourself and better your playing.
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I bought a 27 inch Wohan China Cymbal specially for this book this is another book with Alfred on the cover like on most of his
With this book I can use different styles of music with the drums using most of the rudiments with all the parts of the drum set!! I bought a 27 inch Wohan China Cymbal specially for this book this is another book with Alfred on the cover like on most of his previous books!!!
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Must buy
Must buy for new drummers
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Stay with it! Your sound will improve
I would imagine once I’m intermixing this with the Stick Control I’ll be well on my way to getting some quality gigs
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Recommended to me by my music professor at school
Recommended to me by my music professor at school. Not only for snare drum, this can apply for almost any percussive instrument! On drum set, try playing the melody rhythms with the right hand, then left foot, then right foot, etc. Vary your practice with these rhythms
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For any musician who wants to be ON or IN …
For any musician who wants to be ON or IN BETWEEN the exercises apply to any instrument not just drum, find a drummer friend to do those with iand it could turn into e a hell of a learning session
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The Best Place To Begin Drumming
A best selling book for 50 years. Excellent.
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Classic
This book is eminently adaptable to all music styles. It’s a must-have.
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All music students could benefit from this book.
I am currently using this book to teach my son basic drumming with a roland practice pad. It has been a fantastic help.This book would be helpful to any beginning student learning to read music, not just drummers, since it so clearly breaks down rhythmic notation. The exercise progressions make a lot of sense, and there are quarter note guides that align the drum notes relative to the downbeat, which is very helpful for learning syncopation.
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Study for every drummer
I learned about this book through story about Bill Stewart saying that he used this book among others. This study book is really a step by step method to teach your brain syncopation. If one knows the introductory drills you only do the excercises at end of chapter. Great book. Methodical and a road map for teachers!
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Bought it for the second time
I was out of the musicians world for about 35 years. I am making a come back and bought this book again. It develops your mind into recognizing patterns of syncopation so when you encounter them, its just as a if you were reading a novel. Very effective!
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A great book of rhythm and syncopation for all musicians
This book is great study for all musicians. It developed progressively and becomes more complicated. As an educator of over 35 years I have always used this along with other supplemental materials to assist my students in understanding rhythm and syncopation.
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Highly recommend
Very important book for a beginner drummer to play through. I used this early on in my learning and it helped me big time in my drum set abilities especially with limb independence.
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Libro Batería Drum
Excelente, estaba soñando con tener ese libro y al fin lo pude obtener. Muchas gracias, incomparable calidad la versión mas costosa aunque no tanto.
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Thank you
excellent
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Gr
This is my second go round, used this book years ago when I was a beginner. So glad I’m using it again. There are so many ways to apply these exercises. Great for developing independence, phrasing, and all around drumming skills. Ted Reed did such an intelligent job here; he gave us an incredible learning tool.
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The best, not 2nd best …
or maybe I’m being unfair … but I first used Syncopation back when I first took drum lessons (1965 or so) … and I remembered many of the instruction beats to the point where I entered my 4th or 5th childhood at age 52 and bought the book again (and there they were — 1 e & a, etc.). Between this and […] (nate brown, instructor), relearning to read and getting my chops back was a breeze (and nostalgic).If you’re thinking about drumming, you gotta have this … which is rated the 2nd best all-time book behind “stick control” … I never used stick control but will probably take a look-see down the road.
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At first I didn’t get it.
At first I didn’t understand how to use this book. Just glancing at the pages, I was like “why would anybody write a book like that? And why would anyone buy it?” Then a friend showed me how to use it – and later I immersed myself in the subculture of YouTube drummers who have developed endless ways to mash up these exercises. No drummer should be without this one.
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Excellent book.
I got this for a drum studio class that am taking Arizona State University and so far my reading has been challenged. I personally would recommend this book if you plan to get into big band chart reading and sight reading. There are very helpful written charts that are most commonly seen in big band music and excellent exercises that you can use for left hand comping in swing music. Its a hard book to learn but this is going to jump your reading big time. Take your time with book, don’t rush through it. There are simple steps to take when approaching this book. So have fun and keep swinging. 🙂
2 people found this helpful
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Important book for a percussionist
I’m still not done with the book haha. I have a long way to go
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This was about the 50th copy of this book that …
This was about the 50th copy of this book that I bought for one of my drum students. Anyone who wants to learn to play the drums should have a copy of this book. I learned to play using this book and I have been using it to teach others to play for twenty years.
4 people found this helpful
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Learn This and You Will be Great
The book shows snare and bass drum notes. I practiced those notes while playing the basic jazz swing pattern on the hi-hat and ride and it really helped me increase the independence of each limb. It also significantly improved my left hand control. Buy this book and practice it! You will not be sorry.
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My instructor recommended this book and “Stick Control for the Snare Drummer”
My instructor recommended this book and “Stick Control for the Snare Drummer”. These two books are fantastic. I would highly recommend these two books. They have helped me progress in learning to play the drums and for preparing for my weekly sessions with my instructor.
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Good book
Good book.
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Excellent, straightforward book on basic drum rhythms and note …
Excellent, straightforward book on basic drum rhythms and note emphasis.An excellent book for all levels. Sometimes it’s forgotten that a drummers main purpose is to keep rythm, everything past there is important, but rhythm is its foundation. Reed’s book is perfect to set to a metronome and solidify your internal rhythm in context with a large amount of common drum patterns Ii.e. (eighths, triplets, sixteenths, etc.)Syncopation is an essential book to add to any drummers library. Five stars, highly recommend.
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Love it
Has helped me become a good drummer with these exercises.
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Get syncopated!
The word syncopation is often misunderstood and misused. This book is a great addition to Stick Control by George Lawrence Stone in developing right/ left coordination with accents. Work it work it work it. You’ll be glad you did. I had both these books in my formative years and I revisit them to keep loose and precise. I’m convinced both of these books helped with developing my chops and ability to recognize patterns which made learning songs much faster and easier. Get it, work it!
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EVERY SERIOUS MUSICIAN SHOULD HAVE THIS BOOK
Upon receiving this book, it was in mint condition and the packaging was of good quality as well. I bought this book because as a musician, I know you can’t get far without really knowing your scales and theory just like you probably won’t be good at, really, ANY genre without knowing about syncopation. Although the title is directed towards drummers, anyone who plays ANY instrument should invest in this book. It will not only help you as a performer, but also in terms of personal expression and comprehension.
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Classic
This one is truly a classic. There are so many ways to variate the excercises, I think it’s very tough to run out of new ideas with this book!
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Great skill development for drummers of all levels.
As an advanced beginner on the drum kit this book has helped tremendously in improving the basic coordination between my hands and feet.I started with the book 4-Way Coordination to try to get my limbs to work with each other. 4-Way Coordination is great but, at least for me, hard! Syncopation is more at my level. I work through both and recommend both.
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A favorite old wine!
This book deals with syncopation and it starts with the basics to prepare you for the complex. This is a medicine you must take and master to play effectively. To some, some of these exercises may prove very challenging. However, you are determine to succeed because you have no choice. You want to be your best. It is elementary. It is needed to give breath to your performance. Again, a favorite well aged wine!
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Great for a new percussionist or seasoned professional
This book and “Stick Control” are the backbone of rudiment books for percussionists. It is no less than essential that this book be used to learn or tune-up one’s understanding of accenting unexpected notes in percussion play. All of my comments in “Stick Control” apply here. Get this book and after you are have completed your first pass through this book there is no way you wont be a better drummer as a result of your work. Isn’t that what it all about.
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A classic
Bought this for my grandson who is making the most of it. Same book I studied 40 years ago in music school. A classic indeed.
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Very useful and well organized drum exercise book!
It was great to order from amazon, as the order arrived in just days, and the book did not disappoint. It is organized in a progression of lessons which grow incrementally more challenging. Each lesson is perfectly planned to enhance your muscle memory for playing as well as giving you an excllent study in note values and rhythms. I do recommend this book for all beginning drummers (and beyond).
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A Great Product!
This is an awesome lesson book. If you’re looking to work on becoming more fluid and accurate behind the kit, then this book is a must! It’s filled with hours upon hours of exercises, especially if you take your time and really work on mastering each and every exercise as you go along.Don’t hesitate to buy this if you’re interested in it!
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Classic
I used this 25 years ago, and it’s still the best tool for budding musicians. Using with my own students now.
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A Classic!
This is one of the most useful books available for studying drums.It is filled with practical rhythms that can be used over and overin different ways. The possibilities are truly endless. These “routines”are not explained in the book, but most drum teachers are (or should be)familiar with the concept. If you own only one drum book, this should bethe one! This book can also be used for rhythmic study on any instrument.
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As a serious drummer’s Bible, this title is necessary.
As a serious drummer’s Bible, this title is necessary.
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pretty worn out
I had the original book , pretty worn out ,so I decided to get this new one. It’s a great drum book .
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It’s a classic for a reason. The lessons learned …
It’s a classic for a reason. The lessons learned on the practice pad apply to making beats in a digital environment too. (i.e. Ableton live)
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Great book. Worth price.
Great book. Good for a new learner developing their skills and also and experienced drummer. Would recommend to anyone
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Great rhythm practice guide.
This is a really good guide for a percussionist. Very thorough.
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El artículo está en excelentes condiciones llegó rapido, Gracias
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Great book, blurry copy
Reminds me of over-xeroxed pages. On p. 54 –59 I had to whiteout the unnecessary ‘3’ over the repeated triplets due to continual confusion with the accent marks. That was a lot of work. Should give it 3 stars but it really is a great book. Wish Alfred would clean up the copy.
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Learning to count for guitar
Yes, this book will help you if you have trouble counting in music. I use my left hand tapping on my left knee for the 1,2,3,4 and my right hand doing the more challenging rhythms. Starts off easy and then increases. The cover is a brave and wonderful example of simplicity and don’t change if it’s not broke. Fun
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Love it!!
This book was recommended to me by a Percusionist from Puerto Rico, it’s really a good method to learn syncopation notes
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Not Just for Drummers!!!
It’s a shame really that this book is titled “for the modern drummer”.Any musician that plays different rhythmic patterns (which is pretty much all of them) will benefit greatly from this book. All the lines are in 4/4 time with steady quarter notes shown marking the “beat”. So the exercises really consist of all the patterns shown on the top.It’s a simple enough concept, but he had the good sense to write it all out for the rest of us. All your basic patterns: quarter notes, dotted eighths, 16th’s, 16’s mixed with 8’s and all varied in order and with different rests so they come on different beats each time. As you progress through the book, the lines get more complicated and intricate until you get to the syncopated section.I remember this book from when I was a drummer in high school almost 30 years ago. Now I play rhythm guitar, and am looking to get away from the “standard” strumming patterns and get more creative. This book will help me do that. It will also help immensely with learning and playing leads and solos. It really doesn’t matter if you play drums, guitar, sax, keyboard, bass, or mandolin this book will help teach you to recognize and play rhythms – and that is a key part of sight-reading.I guess the TL:DR version would be: If you play a musical instrument, get this book. It will be the some of the best use of money and time you’ll ever spend.
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Essential for anyone trying to learn drums
Excellent book for anyone trying to learn drums. Great exercises and ideas that really develop when you can work with a teacher to help flesh out ideas and give you creative patterns to incorporate into your drumming from these exercises. Make sure to google around and get ideas and not to just read the book as is if you are self learning.
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Excellent book – interesting rhythms for beginners and intermediate players who read music
I am surprised to see comments about how this book isn’t for beginners. I’m very much a beginner (have only been playing a few months) and have loved it. There are a couple of things in here that are too hard for my current level, but don’t we all want to stretch? It has a decent range from very easy to quite a bit harder and plenty for the beginner. I wouldn’t buy it as a first drum book – but I did in fact buy it as my second. And, it’s great. t love that it challenges me and that there are things I will have to come back to when I become more knowledgeable. Additionally, the rhythms are more interesting and not as straight forward as most books that are appropriate for beginners. That’s a big plus in my book and it makes me want to practice more and longer. I agree that some of the handwritten notes are a little sloppy and inconsistent. This may sound weird, but I find that charming and an additional challenge. And, it adds to the beauty. It’s like the difference between hearing a live drummer and a drum machine.
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great
helpful , Begins with simple exercises and progresses to more complex techniques, very structured and clear
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So good i just had to review it!
If only i had found out about this book sooner! As a drum teacher for the past 12 years, i can easily say Syncopation by Ted Reed is the best most effective book to get beginners started with learning to read rhythms. Some of my students who at first had zero reading ability managed to sight read quarter notes all the way through different 16th note rhythms by the end of class, identifying all the different rests along the way while keeping a steady kick pulse underneath. All this thanks to how systematically the exercises are written out, getting more challenging as you progress through the pages. One step at a time, slowly but surely.Not just for beginner or intermediate drummers; i come back to this book just to brush up on my sight reading every once in awhile, or i’d pick some of the exercises out and use it as double pedal exercises or independence stuff like left foot clave, right/left hand ostinatos etc. A thousand different ways to use this wonderful book!
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haishan li –
Good
As always, good series
Kenneth Hutchinson –
Awesome Value
Great Book
A. Boileau –
Suzuki method is wonderful &.
As always, Suzuki method is wonderful & … just need to get the practice in.
Ann –
Good
Good
Krystal –
Great Book for Beginners!
This is a great book for beginner strings students, so that they can learn and advance at a fast pace. I am happy with my purchase.
H C2 –
Teacher’s recommendation
The Suzuki Viola School series is recommended by a private viola teacher of my 10-year old daughter, who is on her 2nd year of viola practice.
cheri moore –
viola 2
Have not used this book yet, for I am still in book 1.I am sure I will love it –the Suzuki method is my preferred choice of learning from and also recommendedby teachers
Sandra G –
Five Stars
Necessary for all violist
joanne m. Gudenburr –
Five Stars
🙂
ravinaR –
Good selection
Very good book for intermediate Viola students. Good selection of pieces.
Dee –
Great purchase
Great item; shipped on time for Christmas; no complaints; received item as described.
Jorge Barbarosa –
Suzuki Method
Tired and True
Dawn Fichter –
Five Stars
Great condition.
Amazon Customer –
Five Stars
perfect
Michel J. –
Five Stars
Excellent.
Ruth Urrutia –
Five Stars
God
Virginia Nickerson –
Five Stars
Great explanation and examples!
Jan C. –
Suzuki Viola School
Required by my daughter’s teacher. Nice songs and she seems to be doing well with it. Price lower than in the local store.
JP –
Five Stars
Good Book with the separate CD
wildpulaski –
love it
He is loving this book. It is helping him so much.
GP –
Méthode pour alto
La bonne méthode pour alto, en clé de Fa.Et non en clé de sol (méthode pour violin).Malheureusement il n’y a eu aucune réponse de Amazon pour un échange.La prof d’instrument de mon fils ne l’ayant pas fait travailler dessus de suite, il était trop tard pour renvoyer Susuki violin school.Le délai d’amazon étant dépassé. Ce serait bien de mettre la traduction en français du titre, ou dans le descriptif, de dire pour quel instrument et en quelle clé est la partition!…Il n’y a aucun descriptif de l’article.Pas de Cd comme pour la méthode pour violon. Dommage!
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ビハインザマスク –
バイオリン教本とほぼ同じかな
ビオラの教本はバイオリンと違って種類が少ないですよね。鈴木メソッドなら体系的にほぼ完成されているから安心かな。しかし何故国内販売しないのかな？
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Sun Hwa Park –
Five Stars
Good
Blurp –
It’s what we expected
The book is accurate and we liked it!
キンモクセイ –
輸入版ですが、早く届いたので良かったです。
輸入版なので、到着まで時間が掛ると思っていましたが、早く届いて良かったです。
Marie Picon –
Rápido y en perfecto estado
Es el segundo volumen usado en Conservatorio Elemental (para viola). Es uno de los métodos más recomendados para niños/as que empiezan a tocar un instrumento.
与一 –
ハ音譜
Viola版ハ音譜は国内にはないそうなので英語版です説明文に、たまに辞書が要ります
engst –
Standard Suzuki book required for lessons
Comes with a CD which is helpful for reviews and listening/ear training.
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9ki –
Top
Nutzen für alle unsere Kinder die Suzuki Schule. Da ist es egal welches Streichinstrument. Haben von Violine bis Cello alles dabei. Nur für Kontrabass wird ein anderes Lehrbuch benutzt.
C.Raitt –
Good tunes
The tunes in this book are very easy to use, the extra instruction is not so easy to follow. The cd is great as I play it in the car before we start learning the notes so they already know the tune
エリア –
迅速丁寧な対応
よい、日本語版はないが、英語版で十分。紙質は良くないが安いからよい
Cristina –
Esta bien
Utilizó esto para el conservatorio, y son obras chulas.
MoeMoe –
The book is great, but USPS smooshed it
The book is exactly what my daughter’s private lessons teacher requested. I suspect that this volume will be just as good as the first. The only thing I would suggest to this seller is that he/she add some added protection to this kind of product in the future. Clearly USPS wasn’t so kind to the corner of this book.
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Busy Mom –
Good books for teaching viola.
Suzuki books: standard for stringed instruments. These are nearly identical to the famous violin studies. My one complaint is the introduction of the treble clef and third position in this book. The viola book introduces third position earlier than I have found some students are ready to learn it. The violin series doesn’t require third position really until the 4th book. I supplement with another series and come back to the third position in these books when students are ready. If someone is looking to self-teach the viola, I would say this book will only help you if you already have a background in a stringed instrument.
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Suburban Daddy –
Lessons
Lessons Book as described
Jason –
Great book
This book is a great one for beginners, Moving from book one to book two is seamless and makes you feel good to go from playing folk songs to J.S. Bach and finally in book two a piece by Niccolo Paganini of all people.
Lbeckit –
Recommended by my sons viola teacher
My son plays the viola and this is one of the books he worked through with his teacher. Seemed to go well for him and was recommended by a professional.
Simon Liu –
Pretty Good
This book is pretty good and I can finally have the next book to learn new songs.
Ranjan Kumar Das –
Suzuki Viola series
Received in good condition. This is a must for anyone who is learning viola and follow the Suzuki series.
Ben –
Great book for learning Viola
Great book for learning viola. This is the book that my son’s viola teacher and his school use. The Suzuki method is an excellent way to learn any instrument.
Jessica –
Fun songs
There are fun songs to play in this book. I feel the length of the songs and the lack of instruction makes this too frustrating of a series for beginners.
I do not recommend –
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