Learn more viola! Learning the Viola, Book Two teaches a new set of skills on the viola 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 Violin and Cello books. This book could be studied along with Viola Book One and could be followed by Playing in Keys for Viola, Book One.