I found this little set of exercises in 1st position for the violin by Elgar - on the IMSLP
Petrucci Music Library site - which I thought were a cut above the normal simple 'exercises' you get. Though simple they are tuneful and the piano part adds much to the composition rather than being just a 'backing track'.
I decided against using tremolo ( personal choice) though I would think it could be effective in places. Instead, to get over the 'sustain problem', I upped the tempo a little in some, and added a mandolin G chord flourish at the end of tune D !
As I recorded the piano and mandolin separately, I've created piano accompaniment files to play along with. To these I've added a two-bar metronome count-in. I've also been rather free with the tempo in places, but I think they're easy enough to follow.
The scores are attached.
They can be listened to at
http://snd.sc/YhbyLc
and the accompaniment files can be downloaded from
http://sdrv.ms/14Jbb1z
Andy
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