All for strings is a comprehensive three-volume method surrounded by a wealth of supplementary materials for teaching and performance.This complete curriculum covers virtually every aspect of beginning through intermediate string study, emphasizing technical skills, rhythmic understanding, and quality musical experiences. Many of the National Standards for Music Education can be easily implemented into the classroom setting with the varied components All for Strings has to offer.Book 3 focuses on left-hand shifting and upper position work for each instrument, and includes step-by-step shifting instructions for both students and teacher. Intonation builders, vibrato exercises, harmonic studies, syncopation trainers, spiccato etudes, and a variety of new rhythm exercises are included to round out this comprehensive approach.

The third volume moves students toward more advanced playing techniques and literature. This text continues to develop playing skills found in Book 2 and advances the student through more rigorous and lengthy literature. Instrument-specific selections promote performance, reinforcing shifting skills, more advanced bowing techniques, and complex and multiple-meter pieces. The book contains solo literature that: enables the student to use higher positions with suggested fingerings; features accidentals that challenge left-hand intonation; utilizes more complex time signatures, multiple-meters, and challenging rhythmic patterns; and develops the bow stroke to perform more expressive dynamics and musicianship.

This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shifting. Book 2 introduces students to: long and controlled bow strokes, slurred legato and staccato bow strokes, string-crossing slurs, and producing dynamic contrasts; new rhythmic patterns including dotted notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, swinging eighth notes, and syncopated rhythms; new time signatures including 6/8 and 3/8, along with cut time for cello/bass; and major and minor left-hand string patterns, extended fingerings, and beginning octave harmonics and shifting.

Volume 1 begins with open strings and basic notation, rhythms, and bowing skills. New notes, notation, and bowing skills are added in logical progression, reinforcing both right- and left-hand technique and developing the cognition for string performance. This book introduces students to: the basic major and minor tetrachords on all four strings; essential rhythmic notation from whole notes through eighth-note patterns; left-hand techniques such as easily played double stops, left-hand pizzicato, and differentiating whole and half steps; and bowing techniques, beginning with the detache bow stroke and continuing with staccato, slurs, producing dynamics with the bow, lifting the bow, arco-to-pizzicato technique, and hooked and loure bow strokes.

Are you tired of juggling multiple technique books to teach scales, etudes, warm-ups, shifting, positions, vibrato, and tone production? Expressive Techniques for Orchestra offers a wealth of technical and musical experiences for the advanced middle school through upper-level high school student under one cover. This all-in-one book follows any published Book II, but is much more than just a Book III. It may be used sequentially or by individual units, as needed.

This book was written to provide music that will function firstly, as a method for the string teacher who has his or her own teaching concepts and simply wants accessible music for the students to play and read. This book seeks to reinforce each teacher's individual style without presenting contradictory or excessive pedagogical information. Secondly it is a folio of complete 2 and 3 part string orchestra pieces suitable for a performance as young string players progress from the very earliest stages while giving them a sense of the expressive potential of sound. Thirdly, it is a way for Suzuki trained students to develop reading skills that will complement their technical and aural skills in an ensemble setting.

Learning was never so much fun! If you're looking for an orchestra method that builds solid musicianship while motivating your students to practice throughout the year, then you've found it! This incredible new orchestra method is sound in its pedagogy, written by leading young orchestra composers and educators, including Sandra Dackow and Michael Alexander. The integration of important pieces from the orchestra world, that are both familiar and fun to play, is one of the stellar aspects of this method. Throughout the book, students experience music from a veritable "who's who" list of great orchestra composers. They'll discover the musical contributions of Georges Bizet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Aaron Copland, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Strauss, Jr. and many other classical composers. Some of the notable features include:

• A wonderful variety of melodies that span various styles and periods, including many popular themes students will know
• A 96-track CD included with each student book spans exercises throughout the lesson book
• Professional accompaniments in diverse styles keep practice fun
• A comprehensive score with related activities and supplementary lesson ideas
• Historical notes on some of the most notable composers of orchestral music
• Develop compositional skills, music reading skills, and learn the correlation between art and music
• A Teacher Resource Guide that lets you explore concepts in a more in-depth way
• A teacher CD that includes wonderful listening opportunities for the students

Your students will love playing along with the CD accompaniment tracks! And, for the director, a comprehensive score makes lesson planning enjoyable. Related activities, supplementary lesson ideas, curriculum planning information and much, much more are offered to assist and inspire you. It's hard to say what your students will enjoy the most about their new lesson book: the colorful layout; the fun, familiar music; or the great play-along CD!

Orchestra Expressions takes students' musical knowledge to new heights by bringing the immediacy and dynamics of the real world into the music classroom. Previously learned material is reinforced and given added depth, dimension, and meaning when it is viewed in the context of history, culture, and students' own everyday experiences.

• Unique Elements
• Four-fingers-down start for every instrument
• Separate but simultaneous development of both hands
• Bass begins in III position developing early shifting
• Orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow
• Final full orchestra concert piece
• Play Music and Video Samples

Here is a new resource that provides specific strategies to develop sight-reading skills with individuals and/or large group ensembles. A comprehensive, supplemental resource for classroom or studio in a unique format, Sight-Read It will develop consistent reading habits and improve sight-reading skills for violin, viola, cello and bass students. Using a non-sequential unit format, materials are flexible and can be individualized. Unison exercises, pre-tests, progress evaluations and seven musically diverse three-part ensembles provide extensive practice and assessment of reading skills in a realistic musical context.