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It isn''t our goal to become sophisticated or classy. Our goal is to learn to sight-read music as if it were a second language. Learning happens best when we are having fun. Most of all, our purpose is to ignite our sleeping brains, by using music as the catalyst, to pull each of us through whatever it is that challenges us. Dyslexia, mental short circuits, and learning differences are no match for Scales Aren''t Just a Fish Thing. Scales Aren''t Just a Fish thing mingles direct attention to learning styles through the use of music to give students with various learning differences a chance to learn easily while having fun. Songs Included are: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ABC Song Baa Baa Black Sheep The Bear Went Over the Mountain Chipmunks love Peanuts (Go Tell Aunt Rhody) Row Row Row Your Boat Hey Diddle Diddle Rain Rain Go Away Diddle Diddle Dumplin'' My Son John A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track A Frog Went a Courtin'' Hickory Dickory Dock Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush Anchors Aweigh O''Come Little Children Long Long Ago May Song Old MacDonald Had a Farm Allegro Remember: All the tunes are written in the same key as the violin music so both instruments can play easily together. Have fun!!

Dancing Toward the Light is Rachel Browne''s story, from her days as a ballerina with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet to her present status as a noted choreographer of spare, charged works of dance. In 1964 she founded Winnipeg''s Contemporary Dancers; when she was edged out of the company twenty years later, she emerged as a creator of poetic works, which address her feminist and socialist convictions. Teacher, mentor, creator, director, dancer, Rachel Browne is a remarkable force in Canadian dance. "Through her abiding devotion to her art, Rachel Browne has come to stand as a moral force in Canadian dance. Singular in her courage, her intrepid determination, her discipline, and in what at times has been sheer bloody-mindedness, throughout her dance career in Canada she has been a trailblazer." --from the Foreword by Grant Strate.

''Finger Positions Made Easy'' is a series of teacher manuals that teach one ''bit'' of information at a time. The second position manual teaches where the notes sit on the fingerboard and staff and which finger usually plays that note. It''s just that easy. To play with quality and technique beyond that of the normal student, it takes a bit of thinking. The fingerboard often seems like a mysterious dark forest, but by taking one position at a time, you will embed the information so you can use it without thinking. Once you know here the notes sit on the fingerboard, they don''t move. It''s like bringing light into the ''dark ''forest''.After you have learned the basics, you must decide two things. What fingering will make the notes flow more musically, and where should the note be played to create the tonal quality the song requires. The goal is to allow yourself to know your fingerboard so intrinsically and completely that, without having to process the information, you can flow with the music. This is why the brain benefits from taking violin and music lessons.