Essential Technique for Strings – Violin Book 3 with Online Resources from the world's leading strings method just got an update! Essential Elements for Strings 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.

Essential Elements includes free access 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.

These new editions include 150+ professionally recorded videos online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new colour photography, and much more. Best of all, new editions still work side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements.

Available for Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass here

Essential Technique for Strings – Violin Book 3 with Online Resources:

Higher Positions and Shifting
Keys and Scales
Bowings, Rhythms and Vibrato
Advanced positions
Violin and viola shifting sequences
Essential Elements features continued and expanded
7 major keys
5 minor keys
Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics
Treble clef for viola; tenor clef for cello and bass
Cello and bass thumb positions
Jazz lines for bass
bonus songs

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