I just bought the 4th volume of the suzuki book for viola and I find out that the book is a bit on the extremely hard side. Does anyone else feel that the gap between the suzuki books are a bit big or is that just me? . I know everything takes time but I wasn't quite prepared for this book.

Another thing I wanted to ask is, is their any other good string method books other than the suzuki method, I like that the books are challenging but I don't really agree with the method they are teaching and none of my private teacher really use it, nor suggest it. The music store I go to only has copies 1 - 4 btw.

I've been learning some tunes from the Suzuki violin book 4. When I went to the music shop a few weeks ago, I had a flick through book 3 to see what it was like. I agree, the gap between book 3 and 4 is huge! I looked at book 5 and it seemed a lot harder than book 4 as well.

I'm not sure about viola books, but good violin technique books are Wohlfahrt, Eta Cohen and Neil Mackay. Not sure if they do a viola verson of the books.