Early Start on the Violin: A violin method for children aged four and older.
Note reading is introduced from the beginning, and accidentals are explained
in the easiest way in the first volume. By the end of the first book, many
English children’s songs using all fingers have been played and note values
from whole to eighth notes have been introduced. Even the easiest exercises
are underlaid with text so that melodies can be perceived as a whole.
The authors:
The original German Violin method was first published in 1976. The author Egon
Sassmannshaus is one of the most experienced and renowned Violin pedagogues in
Germany.
For the new English edition his son Kurt Sassmannshaus worked as co-author and
adapted his father’s successful method for English-speaking children.
The combined knowledge and experience of father and son make the four volumes
of the Sassmannshaus Tradition the most thoroughly researched and thought-
through beginner Violin method in the world.