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RoseRodent
I'm looking for some really easy violin and viola stuff but which also has really easy piano underneath. I've found a few bits and pieces which have easy piano parts but nothing I could realistically ask anyone to buy. I'm looking probably around grade 3-4 piano parts, I can play higher grades but not under accompanying circumstances where you have other things to think about, so I'm looking for stuff that I can keep really steady and sure, where I will be an asset rather than a liability, at least!

When I say really easy I meant early, early stuff, introduction to left hand fingers Twinkle Twinkle Little Star type of level, not as in "Really Easy Pieces for Young Violinists" type of grade 4 stuff. I think sometimes they put something complex in the piano part to better "mask" the lack of movement and interest in the solo part.
Alicia Ocean
The simplest solution is to write your own.
Minstrel
Fiddle Time Joggers piano parts are all very straightforward. Team Strings are too (and include, amongst other things, Twinkle Twinkle.
miffy
Flying Start for Strings are very easy accompaniments. You get the piano accompaniments to all 3 books in one book. Twinkle twinkle is in book 1.
And it's spiral bound so it stays open biggrin.gif
Roseau
The series of books of which "Waggon Wheels" is a part, have easy piano parts.

(This sounds very convoluted but I'm hoping a violin teacher will know what I'm talking about and be able to give you more details).
violincjj
Abracadabra is good and has a backing track CD so you can use that too smile.gif
miffy
QUOTE(kerioboe @ Oct 24 2011, 09:48 PM) *

The series of books of which "Waggon Wheels" is a part, have easy piano parts.

(This sounds very convoluted but I'm hoping a violin teacher will know what I'm talking about and be able to give you more details).

Stepping Stones, Waggon Wheels, Fast Forward. They have easy piano parts but no well known tunes, if that's what you are after. They also have a CD but my pupils tell me the accompaniments are quite fast on them..
violincjj
QUOTE(miffy @ Oct 24 2011, 10:22 PM) *

QUOTE(kerioboe @ Oct 24 2011, 09:48 PM) *

The series of books of which "Waggon Wheels" is a part, have easy piano parts.

(This sounds very convoluted but I'm hoping a violin teacher will know what I'm talking about and be able to give you more details).

Stepping Stones, Waggon Wheels, Fast Forward. They have easy piano parts but no well known tunes, if that's what you are after. They also have a CD but my pupils tell me the accompaniments are quite fast on them..


You can use things like Amazing Slowdowner to help with that.
RoseRodent
AB has a free tool on their website called Speedshifter which will slow down CD backing tracks, very usable interface.

I shall have a look around at some of those volumes and see what I can manage. It's good that the Joggers is on there as I did already have my eye on that one. Used to drive me crazy as a kid having to pay for the never used piano parts to all my pieces.
Dulcet
QUOTE(RoseRodent @ Oct 24 2011, 11:07 PM) *

AB has a free tool on their website called Speedshifter which will slow down CD backing tracks, very usable interface.

I shall have a look around at some of those volumes and see what I can manage. It's good that the Joggers is on there as I did already have my eye on that one. Used to drive me crazy as a kid having to pay for the never used piano parts to all my pieces.


I can play some of the accompaniments in "time pieces" and "more time pieces" (book 1 in each) and I am only a g2 pianist. Don't know what "x time joggers/runners/sprinters" accompaniments are like as we bought the book and cd.
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