• Summer Practice Ideas

    Erin Cole Steele’s playbook for retaining students through summer: pass-off assignments with EEi recordings and incentives, EEi Resources for written work, student-choice solo books, Sheet Music Direct PASS streaming, Noteflight Marketplace, and parent communication about practice expectations and summer camps.

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  • EE Correlated Collections

    Solo and full ensemble repertoire that aligns to specific page numbers in the EE method — five levels for band (Explorer, Performer, Artist, Expert, Master) and five for strings, plus theme-based collections including holiday, Broadway, classical solos, film, and Beatles arrangements.

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  • Holiday Practice Tips

    Keep students playing through winter break: assign the EEi Holiday Music Activities Sheet from the Resources section, encourage family concerts using the Music Studio’s professional accompaniments, suggest practicing with friends, and share new holiday music videos including a 360-degree LA Philharmonic performance.

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  • Song Selection Feature

    Tailor the EEi Music Studio to your curriculum by enabling or disabling specific songs in your students’ accounts. Three steps: open the Music Studio, click SONGLIST in the left-hand column, then toggle individual songs on or off — useful for skipping content or matching pacing.

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  • EEi Webinar: Starting Beginning Band Students with EEi

    On-demand recording of the August 2019 webinar on starting beginning band students. Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for brass and woodwinds, developing music reading skills, building strong fundamentals, establishing practice habits, and using the EEi Music Studio to shape tone quality from day one.

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  • EEi Webinar: Starting Beginning Strings Students with EEi

    On-demand strings webinar with Soo Han (Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory) and Steve Smith (Hal Leonard). Covers instrument-specific pedagogy for beginning strings, music reading, fundamentals, practice habit formation, and the EEi tools and resources that support each step.

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  • EEi Webinar: Utilizing EEi to Keep Students On Track

    A 20–30 minute on-demand webinar on using EEi to keep students focused: creating recording assignments, using the grade book efficiently, building self-assessment rubrics, getting feedback to struggling students, and FAQs — plus a downloadable EEi Lesson Plans PDF with classroom activities.

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  • Creating an EEi Recording Assignment

    Build EEi Recording Assignments to track student progress on EE exercises, fundamentals, class music, and concert prep. Pick the exercise or all-music title, set points and due date, choose recipients, optionally attach a self-assessment rubric, then grade submissions on a color-coded grid as they come in.

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  • EEi My Students Update

    EEi's My Students section gets refreshed sorting, list view, search, mobile-friendly layout, and three streamlined ways to add students — invite by link, Excel upload, or one-by-one.

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  • EEi Beginning Band Instrument Fundamentals

    EEi offers instrument-specific fundamental resources for beginning band students: posture, breathing, mouthpiece placement, first sounds, long tones, articulation — worksheets and videos correlated to EE Books.

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