Essential Elements for Strings Book 2

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Essential Elements for Strings Book 2 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.
Essential Elements now includes Essential Elements Interactive (EEi), the ultimate online music education resource. EEi introduces the first-ever, easy set of technology tools for online teaching, learning, assessment, and communication... ideal for teaching today's beginning band and string students, both in the classroom and at home.
Begins with a review of Book 1
Includes Rhythm Raps, Listening Skills, Theory, History, Multicultural Music, Creativity and Assessment
Introduces and develops sight-reading
New Keys, Rhythms and Meters
Dotted notes
Sixteenth-notes
Syncopation
6/8 meter
Cut time
Triplets
Large, clear fingering charts
Large, clear fingering charts
Mixed meter
Comprehensive scale and arpeggio pages
Double stops
Shifting introduced through harmonics
Violin and viola extended third fingers and cello extensions introduced and reinforced