Essential Technique for Strings Book 3 further develops music skills for the intermediate and advancing student. Book 3 introduces students to higher positions, shifting, advanced bowing, and special techniques.
Essential Technique 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 Technique 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.
An extension of the Essential Elements Method Books
Higher Positions and Shifting
Keys and Scales
Bowings, Rhythms and Vibrato
Exercises for open string, same finger and different finger shifts
Embedded auxiliary notes for accurate shifting without confusing notation
Unison exercises to reinforce and develop shifts to and from higher positions
Includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment
Sight-reading and rhythm pages
Includes through 3 sharps and 3 flats
Violin and viola finger patterns for both first and third positions
Exercises in unison and thirds, scales and arpeggios to help reinforce keys
Four-part Chorales
Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics
Treble clef for viola; tenor clef for cello and bass