Harvey S. Whistler – Developing Double Stops for Violin | Violin Sheet Music Instruction Songbook | Complete Course for Double Note and Chord Development | Rubank Educational Library for Students

This book is all you will ever need to learn double stops. They were hard hard hard! I purchased the book,worked hard, I'm getting it. It's an excellent book.Im an advanced beginner working as far as pg 15 of 75 pages.

This book is excellent-and actually, I am quite charmed and encouraged by the date stamps in each page where a previous violinist has gone through before me-50 years earlier! I think it's cool. I will be keeping this book. It is really useful not just for improving doublestops, but to improve hand position. You can't make decent double stops with a sloppy hand position. As if that weren't enough, it's easy enough yet challenging enough to keep you interested and to gradually improve your sight reading. A triple deal.Thanks. Loooooove it. :) This is a GREAT book fellow violinists. Add this one to your collection.

There's a whole lotta double stops in country music. It makes sense to focus effort in practicing them until they become natural. I repeat some of the challenging exercises over and over, going back to them even when I have progressed further in the book.

This is a great book to start learning double stops. It takes thru simpler excercies then gradually increases the difficulty. I did not have enough formal training in my youth and now find myself learning many things I missed. I highly recommend this book to any adults violinists wanting to increase and regain skills. For the younger students I would say this would be good for an intermediate student.

I have looked at Melodious Double Stops by Trott. That book appears to be more about playing pieces or etudes using double stops than about teaching you how to develop or play double stops. This book by Whistler seems to be more of a "method" type book, which is what I was looking for. I also have the position studies books by Whistler and love them.

I am just going to use this book with my teacher, it arrived next day I bought it

Great

Excellent study manual. This is definitely where you begin extensive work on double stops & chords. Exercises galore! Fingerings, bowing patterns,advice on how to play, etc. You are well drilled. At the end you are bound to be good.I just began, but looked through the entire book. Only one issue thus far they did not explain fingered octaves, (I had to look it up on the web), but that's minor.I highly recommend this book!

Hey,I recently bought a copy of 'Developing Double Stops' only to find it was well above my level of playing or indeed my own needs as a fiddle player.. it's for serious violinists in reality. So I just gave it to a friend who's a classical violin student as a Christmas present and he was delighted. It seems like a classic book and I got it for a very good price here, fast delivery, so no complaints then!5 Stars all round, Px :))

I bought the 3 Whistler books on the recommendation of my violin teacher. And they are all brilliant, and an enjoyable way of developing good technique! I'm already seeing the benefit of including these exercises as part of my daily practice.

Such fun! Makes double stops tuneful and interesting. The beginning is really quite easy then it gets as hard as you want. Contains nice pieces as well as exercises.

Excellent book for advanced musicians I am a post graduate violinist

An excellent teaching resource. Exercises are short but challenging allowing you to make real progress. The order of exercises is well thought out. The service was prompt and the book arrived in excellent condition.