Long-form articles for music educators teaching with Essential Elements: classroom management, rehearsal routines, instrument-specific tips, and pedagogy.
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.
Read More →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.
Read More →Make a holiday album in EEi: pick a Bonus Song from the end of the Book 1 Songlist (including three new Charlie Brown Christmas selections), choose piano or pop/jazz combo accompaniment with melody on or off, record your best take, then download the audio to share with family and friends.
Read More →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.
Read More →Writing counts under rhythms helps students see how rhythms fit together. Pick a counting system, set guidelines for marking held notes and silences, and use EEi rhythm worksheets.
Read More →Sitting vs. standing while playing the string bass: Soo Han walks through proper stool alignment, sitting position, endpin height, and bass placement — 5 photo-illustrated steps.
Read More →Excerpts from popular Hal Leonard music theory books, available as printable PDFs in EEi Resources — staff, time signatures, key signatures, and more for beginning EE students.
Read More →Help young brass players nail pitch accuracy by practicing on the mouthpiece alone with EEi professional musicians — a four-step routine inside the Music Studio.
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