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(Essential Elements). 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 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. For more information, visit For a complete overview of Book 1, click
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Essential Elements for Strings – Book 1 w/EEi – Cello
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 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. For more information, visit Hal Leonard Online – Essential Elements Interactive.
Take a closer look at this comprehensive string method!
Bass Clef – Clefs indicate a set of note names
Time Signature – The time signature tells us how many beats are in each measure and what kind of note gets one beat
Double Bar – A double car indicates the end of a piece of music
Take a closer look at this comprehensive string method!
A String Notes
D is played with 4 fingers on the A string
C# is played with 3 fingers on the A string
B is played with 1 finger on the A string
Take a closer look at this comprehensive string method!
Shadow Bowing: Bowing without the instrument
Step 1: Tighten the bow hair as instructed by your teacher
Step 2: Place the rosin in your left hand. Hold the bow in your right hand.
Step 3: Shadow bow by slowly moving the bow back and forth on the rosin. Be sure to move the bow, not the rosin.
Take a closer look at this comprehensive string method!
Hooked Bowing: Two or more notes played in the same direction with a stop between each note
Hooked on D Major
Waltzing Bows
Pop Goes the Weasel
Bass Clef, Time Signature, Double Bar
A String Notes
Shadow Bowing
Hooked Bowing
Publisher : Hal Leonard; First Edition (July 1, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 48 pages
ISBN-10 : 0634038192
ISBN-13 : 978-0634038198
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 9 x 0.12 x 12 inches
Customers say
Customers find this book for beginners great. It teaches them how to read music and technique. They appreciate the unique melodies and simple songs. The CD included is a nice feature. Many find it fun for kids to play along with the tracks. The book progresses step-by-step, covering fundamentals. Customers like the well-designed layout and detailed drawings. There are daily exercises that help improve overall playing.
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