A Modern Method for Viola Scales (book/Audio Online)

Publisher: Berklee Press
Format: Softcover Audio Online

Develop mastery and control over the viola fingerboard, in all keys. Whether you are playing classical, jazz, fiddle tunes, or other styles, these twenty-first century strategies can significantly improve your technique and musicality, and provide the foundation for improvisation.
Play-along audio tracks are included for accompaniment.

The book covers:
 •  Fingering strategies for comfortably playing in all keys
 •  Scale diagrams for easily visualizing your fingerboard
 •  Major, minor, and pentatonic scales, modes, and arpeggios
 •  Etudes applying these scales and arpeggios in an improvisational context
 •  Essential chord and scale relationships that are useful for improvising
 •  Exercises to help memorize and internalize the scales
and more!

Rob Thomas is a professor in the Berklee College of Music String Department, where he has taught since 2002.