Sophie’s Splendiferous Violin Method for the Very Young is a very fabulous violin method making use of children’s songs to help them learn how to play the violin by using songs they already know or which are short and simple and interesting enough that they do not feel just like another exercise.
As of March 26, 2018, I have about 1/3 of the final songs scored out and less than half of those have their learning tips/guides. I plan to release this as an e-book and in print, but my research has indicated that colour versions of an 80 page violin method book will force me to sell them at what I consider a high cost. I would like to keep the final cost of the book at $15 or less, but I do think that colour needs to be used to help grab young children’s attention and that regular binding rather than spiral is important to keep children from tearing pages out by accident.
I am also considering colour version and uncoloured version, but that would place a higher burden on the artist (and me, because I would have to order two runs).
There should ultimately be roughly 45 to 72 songs or rhymes that most English-speaking children will have learned with roughly 1-3 taken per culture from other cultures around the world.
Songs Currently Planned:
- A Cheval
- A Tisket, A Tasket
- Are You Going to Scarborough Fair?
- Blow the Man Down
- Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
- Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe
- Goosey, Goosey Gander
- Happy Birthday
- Heno, Heno
- Hey, Diddle Diddle
- I Gave my Love a Cherry
- Itsy, Bitsy Spider
- Lightly Row
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Momotaro-san
- Old McDonald Had a Farm
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Polly Put the Kettle On
- Rain, Rain Go Away
- Ring Around a Rosy
- Rock-a-bye Baby
- Sakura, Sakura
- There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
- Three Blind Mice