Learn more violin! Learning the Violin, Book Two teaches a new set of skills on the violin and helps you become more fluent in first position. The book reviews note-reading and teaches rhythms, string crossing, slurs, and some extended first position. Teachers: this book can be studied in private lessons or in string classes, along with the Viola and Cello books. This book could be studied along with Playing the Violin, Book One and could be followed by Playing in Keys for Violin, Book One.