Essential Elements for Strings Book 1

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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.
Essential Elements for Strings 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.
This book provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.
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Book 1 uses a note-to-note sequence with easy-to-read notation. Students begin with the note names written inside the note heads, and then the names are gradually eliminated.
Contemporary pedagogy starts from the "top" of the hand. Violins and violas start with three fingers down, cellos with four. This technique creates better left-hand shape and helps develop proper playing position from the beginning. Teaching the double bass is accomplished without displacing the octave.
Only one new concept is introduced at a time. The pacing encourages student mastery without excessive repetition. You can move from line to line quickly within each class. Students master quarter notes, then move to eighth, half, dotted-half, and 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.
Accurate illustrations help develop proper playing position
Listening Skills for each new note for accurate intonation
Subdivision introduced from the beginning
Assessment for immediate evaluation of students' skills
Large, clear Fingering Charts
Special page devoted solely to mixing Finger Patterns
Solo with piano accompaniment for each instrument