A Dozen a Day: Preparatory: Technical Exercises for the Piano to Be Done Each Day Before Practicing

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Taken as a while, A Dozen a Day is a unique resource, and an extraordinary legacy that we are fortunate indeed to have at our disposal today. Each book offers six groups of twelve exercises, totalling 60 exercises per book and thus 360 across the full series. Used efficiently, effectively and within a holistic musical learning programme, A Dozen A Day: All Year Round is undoubtedly as indispensable a resource today as Edna-Mae Burnam’s original books were back in the 1950’s. Hussey has also written a new performance piece to conclude each of the six books, bringing the total exercise count up to 366.

A Pernambuco wood bow is more responsive to the vibrations of the violin, which sends those vibrations back through the bow to the violinist’s hands. p>Brazilwood is a composite of tropical wood species and slightly heavier than Pernambuco, which lessens the “feel” for the cello player. Together the exercises form a rich resource for piano teachers and students to draw upon, and with the addition of the book’s special thematic index, it’s easy to focus on specific areas of technique.The Seiko electronic metronome is a compact best selling metronome while the Wittner mechanical metronomes are not only excellent to use but also look superb on the piano. Carbon Fibre is an increasingly popular option with the carbon core bows offering astounding value for money. At Caswell’s Strings, however, we cater for all budgets and all needs and have a great selection of Cello Cases and Cello Bags. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

There is much to enjoy in A Dozen A Day, including the exercises’ creative use of the whole instrument from the earliest stages, their adaptability, and the way that their good-natured, humorous characterisations stimulate the player’s imagination. If the balance of a voucher does not cover the entire cost of a purchase you can put it towards that purchase and pay the remainder. Generally speaking there is no advantage of one over the other except that some require a chair to anchor to. compound), writing in different octaves, key signatures and clefs can all be explored as they relevantly relate to the learner’s ongoing music tuition.

The possibilites for how the studies might be used as part of your practice routine are almost limitless, and with six specially-written performance pieces added to conclude each book, A Dozen A Day now has an excercise for ever day of the year. Edna-Mae Burnam's A Dozen A Day books have been enjoyed by milions of Piano students around the world since they were first published in 1954. More recently synthetic materials have started to catch on but the for now the wooden Cello bow is still very much part of playing the instrument! Together the exercises form a rich resource for Piano teachers and students to draw upon, and with the addition of this book's special thematic index, it's easy to focus on specific areas of technique.

A Dozen A Day books have long been the favourite pre-practice technical exercises for young pianists but now these classic warm-up exercises are available for violin too! If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect. All too often there is no expense spared when it comes to purchasing an instrument but then we leave it very unprotected! The precise engineering on the Wittner fine tune pegs has revolutionized the way student instruments can be tuned to precision with the same authentic look. Modern combination cases are strong, light and compact, and often can accommodate up to eight bows as well.The Posture peg is an innovative invention allowing cellists to play comfortably without the C and G string peg getting in the way. The full range includes the BAM classic cello case as the workhorse, the attractive BAM Shamrock cello case, the timeless BAM Newtech cello case, the ultralight BAM Hightech 3.

Dominant cello strings Dominant cello strings are possibly not that well known because of the very competitive and excellent strings there are on the market at this level.They nonetheless still offer a very full and mellow sound with an ability to project without being metallic. With its brilliant Thematic Index, and kept ever within reach, this bumper book succeeds wonderfully as a teacher’s companion, making Burnam’s exercises ever-accessible without encroaching too seriously on lesson time. Our range of bows includes top-quality bows costing well into the thousands right down to the first, student violin bow. Bows We have thousands of Bows for Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass, too numerous and changing too often to enable us to list them all here. It was in the 18th century that luthiers discovered that Pernambuco wood has a beautiful mix of strength and resilience that made it perfect for making a bow.