Peter said
.@Gordon Shumway , .@Fiddlerman ,

Would you please, if you have the time and opportunity, review the following (I expect you're already acquainted):

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Vio....._Berthold)

I find it begins the tuition at an earlier and gentler pace than others I have found, and the boon for English adepts is the entire text is English (no distracting / interesting translations). Tours also left us a book on the Viola, also available at IMSLP.

For what it's worth, I am more comfortable with this book than any that I've looked at, in spite of (perhaps because of) the quaint 19th century style; but I'd be obliged if you could pass your compound expert eyes over it for a view from an advanced level. I am working without a teacher, and good texts are as vital to me as good-quality YT videos.

Thank you,

  

Well, I'm no expert - see my résumé. I have some common sense from having had two good piano teachers in the 70s, resulting in my current violin teacher being a diploma'd (I wouldn't take anything less) violist I am happy with, apart from her schedule, lol.

Try charity shops - there's a lot of cheap sheet music there. And Galamian's book is not expensive.

But I'd say make sure you are paying enough attention to good YT videos and, in particular, defining what's a good YT video: look at every muscle, don't watch them passively like TV, just listening to what they say; and you have to filter out the ones that don't meet the grade. The ones who talk too much are a pain. Don't fall for ones that are warm and fluffy and love-bomb you with a lot of reassurance. You have to be hard on yourself and harder on them.

When you play for a teacher, they tap your right shoulder if it's too high, they tap your wrist if it's wrong - they are continually grabbing your right hand and re-shaping it. They tap your back if it's hunched. They force you to do the boring things you never do at home - like play with bow only, no left hand fingers. If you can't get this from a video, then think seriously about a teacher, a critical one.

As to your weblink, I've seen worse, but I'm having real difficulty with Windows and Adobe and AVG conflicting, so I can't read it very well, even locally.

@peter My teacher, a friend, charges me £30 an hour mates' rates, and she feeds me, lol!

I average a lesson a month with her. I have heard that a lesson a month is adequate for most adults, as their learning rate is slower than kids, but I hope (i.e. need) to learn faster than I did when I was a kid, lol! I'd like a lesson every three weeks, but there are always unexpected cancellations. See if you can find a teacher locally via ESTA maybe, unless you find you've already hit upon a good one.

I like the peace and quiet of Worthing - I played bridge there twice a year in the Beach Hotel (now the Beach Residences) for nearly 10 years. In those days the place had four second-hand bookshops. Now you're down to just Badgers. I hope they are doing well!