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The popular method book Viola Friends 2 for intermediate level viola students

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Do to want your students to practice more, learn faster, and get better grades at examinations?

Violin Friends and Viola Friends method books have a proven track record of taking teaching to the next level with innovative ways of engaging students since 2016.


Students will be motivated to play music with their friends right from the beginning of their studies. They will be happy to use a colorful and fun music book with a magnificent repertoire, lots of play-along videos on Youtube, and free mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud.


Welcome to Viola Friends, your ultimate destination for music education excellence! Are you looking to enhance your students' practice habits, accelerate their learning, and achieve outstanding grades in examinations? Look no further! Our Violin Friends and Viola Friends method books have a proven track record of revolutionizing teaching methods since 2016, offering innovative ways to engage students and take their musical journey to new heights.


Our books will inspire students to learn music independently at home, resulting in increased practice time and improved performance. Violin Friends utilizes highly effective techniques to develop playing skills, allowing students to immediately apply their newly acquired abilities. Each new scale is followed by engaging duos and carefully selected pieces by influential classical composers, ensuring rapid progress. Students can further enhance their learning experience with our play-along videos on YouTube and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud, enabling them to learn music faster and with greater proficiency. Previous users of our books have witnessed accelerated progress, increased performance opportunities, and higher examination scores.

Our method books also offer significant benefits for teachers. With a comprehensive approach that combines warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, and inspiring music, our books streamline the teaching process, saving time and making lessons more enjoyable.


From the very beginning of their studies, students will be motivated to play music with their friends. Our colorful and engaging music books, accompanied by a magnificent repertoire, a wealth of play-along videos on YouTube, and free mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud, will captivate their imagination and foster a love for music.


Introducing our popular viola method book, Viola Friends 2 (2021, Suomi Music), which brings together repertoire, duos, and technical exercises in a single vibrant volume. This book features short pieces, etudes, duets, and concertos presented in a pedagogical order. Major scales and their relative melodic minors are introduced, followed by duets from Franz Wohlfahrt and short pieces in the same keys.


Viola Friends 2 is the third part of our comprehensive series, comprising delightful melodies, rhythmic exercises, scales, technical duets, and duos. The arrangements for two violins allow students to study and perform music together with a friend or teacher right from the beginning. The book showcases compositions by renowned masters such as J.S. Bach, G. Tartini, H. Purcell, R. Glinka, E. Elgar, F. Gossec, G.F. Handel, W.A. Mozart, L. Beethoven, A. Dvorak, P. Tchaikovsky, and N. Baklanova.


Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to explore "first concertinos" arranged for viola and piano by Oskar Rieding, Ferdinand Küchler, and Friedrich Seitz, including Küchler's Concertino in G Major Op. 11, Rieding's Concerto in B minor Op. 35 and Concerto in G Major Op. 34, and Küchler's Concerto in D Major Op. 15, as well as the 3rd Movement of Seitz's Concertino in G Major No. 2 Op. 13.

Famous short pieces featured in the book include J.S. Bach's Minuet and Trio (arranged for two violins), G. Tartini's Sarabande, H. Purcell's Air, D. Kabalevsky's The Clown, N. Baklanova's The Rain, Cradle Song, Romance, and Mazurka, F. Gossec's Gavotte, W.A. Mozart's Adagio, Handel's Bourrèe, and L. Beethoven's Sonatine.

Violin Friends Method Book 2 comprises 35 concert pieces, 27 short pieces, eight technical etudes, five concertos, eight scales, and 14 duos for two violins.

To facilitate practice and performance, our books are accompanied by simplified piano parts, allowing parents and children of the same age to enjoy practicing and performing together effortlessly.

Discover the joy of learning music with Violin Friends! Accessible and engaging, our method books offer a wealth of resources, including simplified piano parts, YouTube play-along videos on the Violin Friends YouTube channel, and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud. Visit our homepage at www.violinfriends.com to unlock the full potential of your musical journey. Start practicing, learning, and excelling today!


All the music in the series is easily learnable with the help of simplified piano parts, Youtube play-along videos on the Violin Friends Youtube channel, and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud and the Violin Friends homepage www.violinfriends.com.

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Violin Friends by Lauri Hämäläinen is a lovely series of violin books for beginners. You will find innovative teaching methods for the basics of violin playing for young students. The books come with instrument-specific preparatory exercises, familiar songs, scales and small etudes as well as arrangements of masterpieces by great composers. Most of the pieces are arranged for a duo or trio, so the young beginners can enjoy playing together right from the start. Additionally there is a Violin Friends – YouTube channel, where you can find engaging play alongs to all the pieces in the books. This series is really a great resource for young violin players and their teachers!
Andrea Holzer-Rhomberg (author of the Fiedel-Max-series)


Lauri Hämäläinen's Violin Friends is an excellent violin school! The layout with colorful pages is really well done, and the traditional songs combined with insightful exercises are a great combination with the repertoire. Extra pluses also from the use of new technology with notebooks. One of my students excitedly told me in the first lesson of the fall that he had received €600 by playing Violin Friends notebooks in the summer at the local market! Markus Tyrväinen, Violin teacher and lecturer at the Tampere Music Concservatory, Finland.

Violin Friends series by Lauri Hämäläinen are fun and useful books for beginners and children to learn violin. The books are colourful with lots of interesting drawings. There are lots of duets and ensembles that players can play and enjoy music together. Violin Friends is an inspiring material for teachers and students to have! Dr.Heng-Ching Fang, Musician, Teacher, Academic Researcher & Translator (BMus, PGDip, MMus, PhD)

Lauri Hämäläinen's Violin Friends - opuses provide an opportunity to combine teaching and playfulness. Fun exercises and well-known themes get students excited without forgetting the basics. Mervi Myllyoja, violin pedagogue

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