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Five Ways EE Book 2 Can Help Your Students:
Continue individual development past the beginner stages
Ensure all sections develop all aspects of music together
Practice important fundamentals in EE to apply to your concert music
Engaging music in the form of exercises, duets, solos, and full band arrangements
Let each section develop instrument specific-needs with the Individual Study Section
Essential Elements for Band Book 2 is a great way to help your students beyond the beginning stages. Book 2 develops performance skills through a variety of exercises, melodies, and engaging music. Read below to see how EE Book 2 can help your students in your music classroom.
Continue Individual Development Past the Beginner Stage
At the start of Book 2, there is an overview of the concepts from EE Book 1. In these three pages, every concept from EE Book 1 is reviewed and the students have a chance to perform them in an exercise, serving as a great "catch-all" when moving to a new book.
Ensure all sections develop all aspects of music together
Book 2 includes carefully crafted daily warm-ups for various stages of development. These are time-tested fundamentals to reinforce proper playing habits. Using these daily will help your students develop:
Better tone
Better pitch
Better technique
Why use book 2 for your intermediate players?
““Using EE Book 2 with your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year players helps ensure that all sections develop their musical skills together. If you just play concert music, it only makes sense that the high voices develop better technical and rhythmic abilities than the low voices. Using Book 2 keeps you on track to introduce and work on important musical concepts with all students.””
Strategically written EE Sightreading Challenges are placed throughout the book. Using the S-T-A-R-S Sightreading Guidelines, you can help your students continue to develop this important musical skill.
Practice important fundamentals in EE to apply to your concert music
Use the book sequentially or choose a specific concept to work on and apply to your concert music.
New concepts are introduced and have immediate and thorough follow through. Students will learn new ideas and implement them in the musical exercises to follow providing a clear introduction and meaningful application.
“EE Book 2 is great for teaching style, articulation, as well as various key signatures and time signatures. I like to choose lines from the book that correlate with the concepts I am teaching in the literature.”
Engaging music in the form of exercises, duets, solos, and full band arrangements
Book 2 will ensure that all members of your group progress musically with engaging musical examples from well-established literature. Songs include:
Shepherd's Hey
Loch Lomond
Manhattan Beach March
Toreador Song from Carmen
Greensleves
and more...
You can also enjoy 12 full band arrangements perfect for developing band students. These are terrific and fun arrangements your students will enjoy.
EE Book 2 includes full band arrangements of:
Simple Gifts
Danny Boy
The Thunderer
Shenandoah
and more...
Let each section develop instrument-specific needs the Individual Study Section
Each book contains music specifically written for that instrument
In the Individual Study Section, students will find:
Warm-Ups
Technical exercises
Musical lines designed to address specific needs of each instrument.
Each exercise is demonstrated by a professional soloist and has a classical piano accompaniment track.
This section expands and strengthens the skills taught throughout Book 2.
Full band chorales and Rubank Scale Studies will help your students master music and technique in multiple keys. We have even included a Rubank Instrumental Solo with piano accompaniment.
Bonus: Essential Elements Interactive comes FREE with the purchase of EE Book 2
Each book comes with Essential Elements Interactive - a powerful online resource for use in class or at home. EEi is included FREE with the purchase of a student book and provides students with many tools, including:
Enhanced Play-along Tracks
Cloud-based Recording Studio
Ability for teachers to assign, organize, and grade recordings
Ever-Expanding Resources
Track Student Progress
and much more