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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>Hal Leonard Online - Essential Elements Interactive.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Essential Elements for Strings - Cello - Book 2 w/EEi

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.

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.

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• 6 opening pages cover all Book 1 elements
• Great refresher to start the 2nd year

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• Includes: Rhythm Raps, Listening Skills, Theory, History, Multicultural Music, Creativity and Assessment
• Introduces and develops sight-reading.

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Dotted notes, Sixteenth-notes, Syncopation, 6/8 meter, Cut time, Triplets

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• Full string orchestra arrangement
• Arranged by John Higgins
• Various styles and levels

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Study the cello technique that will help you play the Bach first Cello Suite

and master the notes and phrases in each section.

Learn Bach-specific techniques

such as smooth string crossing, chords, and trills.

Study the entire Suite

measure by measure and work towards mastery.

How this book works:

A short excerpt of Bach is followed by exercises that teach the shifts, bowing, and other skills needed to play that excerpt. After playing those exercises, you can return to the excerpt and see how you have improved with your newly acquired skills!

Dual-hand focus

Exercises cover both left- and right-hand cello technique. From shifting, to intonation, string crossing, and trills (in the later movements), these exercises take you through an extensive range of intermediate cello techniques.

About the binding

Paperback binding allows us to offer this book at the lowest possible cost!