Basics: 300 exercises and practice routines for the violin (VIOLON)

I'm so happy I got all 4 of Simon Fischer Books. 1-The Basic, 2- The Violin Lesson, 3- Practice & 4- Scales. The books compliment each other, regardless of your learning level. I'm a beginner violin student. So far it has helped me finally begin to understand the bow hold. These books will help tremendously for those who are serious about learning the violin and or self teaching, to build a solid foundation along the journey of learning the violin. Fischer does a wonderful job of explaining in simple details with lots of photos to demonstrate. Thank You Simon for accomplished works. I highly recommend all his books👍🏾

This is exactly the technique book I wished for, having struggled for years to learn violin on my own. The practice lessons are very clearly described and can be done in any order, according to the needs of the student at any given time. For example, if I notice that I am holding my fingers too tightly on the fingerboard I can select an exercise designed to relax the fingers, and my success at that exercise is not lessened if I have not done any of the preceding exercises in that section. Some exercises do require another person to do; I have not been able to do these, but now that I have found a teacher I may try them.

What a compendium! Most thorough resource I've found. Will last from beginner to seriously advanced student. Long, detailed, serious. A challenging read that a committed student must work through. Can't say enough about its treatment of many aspects of technique.

This violin tutor book is great for anyone who already has some level of knowledge of music theory and violin studies and just wants to improve their technical knowledge further. I have been teaching myself some of the techniques in the book to improve my violin playing, as well as studying other things with a violin teacher.

I think this book is essential for any violinist. It has so many valuable exercises. I am still going through the book but I have found a number of exercises that are helping my playing.

I love the book. Simply a wealth of exercises from beginning to advanced students.

I ordered this book for use as a university student in a pedagogy class. The content of the book is fine, as are the physical pages. However, it arrived with both covers quite damaged and for the amount that I paid, I’m rather disappointed by that. If I didn’t need it for a class, I’d send it back.

The book arrived with a crush injury near the spine, a few dog-eared pages, and several pages with frank dirt stains. Not on the edges, well inside the book.