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Essential Elements for Strings Book 1 offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.
EE Strings Book 1 Features:
Book 1 uses a note-to-note sequence with easy-to-read notation
At the start of the book, note names are written inside the note heads, and gradually eliminated throughout
Contemporary pedagogy starts from the top of the hand
For violins and violas: three fingers down
For cellos: four fingers down
Technique creates better left-hand shape, while helping develop proper playing position from the beginning
New material is carefully paced, sequential and immediately reinforced
New notes are approached by step, then gradually played with wider skips and crossing strings
Each new rhythm is introduced as a Rhythm Rap, which can be shadow bowed, then played on an open string, and finally placed in an appropriate melodic setting
The right hand is thoroughly and sequentially developed through a series of seven Bow Builders
Each Bow Builder defines a specific action required to produce an acceptable bow hand
Only one new concept is introduced at a time, encouraging student mastery without excessive repetition
You can move from line to line quickly within each class, as students master:
Quarter notes
Eighth notes
Half notes
Dotted-half notes
Whole notes
New concepts are presented in familiar keys and rhythms
These skills are integrated in shaded sections called Skill Builders to combine rhythms, pitches and bowings into comprehensive exercises to develop solid technique
Important theory concepts explained with musical follow-up immediately after
It's all right in each student book, correlated with the music and concepts they are currently learning
Each EE book strives to meet the National Standards, integrate other subjects into the music curriculum, and still teach the essentials of music performance
A variety of rounds, duets and orchestra arrangements (11) are included
These can be used independently throughout the year, or combined for a pre-planned concert
Bonus: Essential Elements Interactive is included with the purchase of EE Book 1
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