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Alfred Music Publishing

This orchestra method makes learning to play a stringed instrument a bold, exciting exploration! Students follow the adventures of Arco Dakota and Rosalyn le Bow as they systematically take on the challenges of learning music. Students will advance along their Explorer's Map as they conquer each new challenge. The method is enhanced with spectacular full-color photographs, fun activity pages, and concert-ready arrangements by Richard Meyer. Each book comes with a CD containing accompaniments for many of the exercises in the book.

String Explorer, Vol. 1

Violin Method Book

Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 1 is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully designed method book for beginning string students. Designed with input from thousands of teachers, it features clean, easy-to-follow page layouts and a well-sequenced progression of skills. It provides clear goals for each exercise, ample reinforcement of new concepts, performance opportunities, diverse musical styles, and innovative teaching and practice resources. Note names are not included inside the note heads in order to fast-track musical literacy. The book is structured into six short levels, offering benchmarks, assessment indicators, and intermediate goals to guide students and teachers. 
Every book includes free access to SI Online, a robust platform for supplemental worksheets, practice tracks, alternate tunes, extra string orchestra pieces, instrument-specific instructional videos, and more - all available with no login required. Accompaniment tracks can be slowed down, sped up, and looped for difficult sections. The PDFs include music theory, history, scale exercises, rhythm pages, technique pieces, and more for in-class or home reinforcement and differentiation. These resources support students from their very first notes to their final solo while giving teachers the flexibility to tailor pacing and instruction to meet the unique needs of their ensemble.
Book 1 is available for free in MakeMusic Cloud, an interactive practice tool that engages students and streamlines assessment. Plus, with a paid subscription, students can access SI Extras - exercises set to immersive soundtrack accompaniments from blockbuster superhero films including Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Black Adam, and more!

Sound Innovations for String Orchestra, Book 1

Violin Method Book & Online Audio Access

Northeastern Music Publications

Expose your students to mariachi! Modeled after a very successful mariachi program in Las Vegas that has more than 3,000 students in their school district, this just might be the too you need to grow your music program. Start having mariachi fun!

Simplemente Mariachi

Wingert-Jones Publications

One hundred short pieces designed to allow groups to sight-read at every rehearsal without having to sort loose music, hand it out, and collect it after rehearsal. The music can be adapted to a wide range of group sizes and instrumentations but is also well suited for individual study. With improved bowings and articulations, this invaluable tool will assist efficient preparation for sight-reading at contests or festivals. This revised edition is not compatible with the previous edition.

The Sight-Reading Book for String Orchestra

Violin 1 Method Book

GIA Publications

A field-tested and musical collection of 220 sequenced exercises for the beginning string student with a companion website featuring supplemental resources: accompaniment tracks, start-up clinic videos, and full performance videos for each exercise in the book. Tone is at the heart of this method. Students begin using the bow earlier than other resources. The familiar melodies enable students to use their ears to develop good pitch and tone. Online videos allow students to see and hear professional string players modeling good tone and technique for each exercise. All four open strings are introduced early. New notes are introduced with clear fingerboard diagrams and pictures next to the staff. New keys are taught by highlighting notes affected by the new key signature. Rhythmic literacy exercises will have your students counting and reading independently. Long notes and rests are introduced early so students learn to count and subdivide. Melodies in 3/4 appear early and often. Nine pages of sight-reading exercises develop stronger tonal and rhythmic literacy skills. High-quality photos of excellent hand positions help students develop great technique. A diverse repertoire of classical and folk melodies from around the world and warm-up pages with scales, arpeggios, tuning canons, bowing variations, and other great tools for introducing, teaching, and reinforcing skills are included. Online resources include instructional videos by professional string coaches to reinforce instrument position, left-hand setup, bow hand technique, hooked bows, slurs, developing good tone, as well as shifting and positions in the lower strings.

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician, Book 1

Hal Leonard Corporation

Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Strings just got an update! It has been meticulously re-designed to improve the student learning experience and lighten the teacher's load. While the new updates are exciting, you will find that it is the same great method, but with new music and more online resources. 
 
Don't toss out the old editions! The new Essential Elements books are compatible with EE 2000 and newer editions!
 
Teachers will love the added resources meant to address common friction points experienced with each instrument. Students will love online access to today's pop songs arranged for their instrument and level of playing.

Essential Elements for Strings, Book 1

Violin Method Book & Online Resources

Editors Choice Year

This field-tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals can be used with a string orchestra or individual student. This series contains carefully sequenced finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much more. In one place, this series collects everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician

Copyright Year

Tone is at the heart of this method, a two-volume, field-tested collection of sequenced musical exercises for the young string student. Book 2 includes challenging new keys, rhythms, time signatures, and minor modes that will better prepare students for more advanced concert music. The companion website features supplemental resources including accompaniment tracks, clinic videos, and full performance videos for each exercise in the book. These cutting-edge online components are on MusicFirst and MakeMusic Cloud. 
<ul>
<li>Habits-style bowing warm-ups help students develop better tone and articulation skills</li>
<li>Familiar melodies enable students to use their ears to develop good pitch and tone</li>
<li>Online videos allow students to see and hear professional string players modeling good tone and technique for each exercise</li>
</ul>
Tonal literacy is a key focus:
<ul>
<li>Melodies and exercises with backward and forward extensions are introduced with clear fingerboard diagrams and pictures next to the staff</li>
<li>Five pages of major and minor tuning canons, chords, scales, and thirds help students learn and review keys and modes from two flats to three sharps</li>
</ul>
 
Rhythmic literacy exercises will have your students counting and reading independently:
<ul>
<li>Dotted rhythms, ties, and syncopated rhythms help students learn to count and subdivide</li>
<li>Sixteenth-note rhythms and 6/8 time signature better prepare students for more advanced skills and concert music</li>
<li>Eight pages of sight-reading exercises develop stronger tonal and rhythmic literacy skills</li>
</ul>
 
More:
<ul>
<li>High-quality photos of correct hand positions help students develop great technique</li>
<li>A diverse repertoire of classical and folk melodies from around the world</li>
<li>Warm-up pages with scales, arpeggios, tuning canons, bowing variations, and other great tools for introducing, teaching, and reinforcing skills.</li>
<li>Online resources include instructional videos by professional string coaches to reinforce instrument position, left-hand setup, and bow-hand technique</li>
</ul>

Habits of a Successful Young String Musician, Book 2

A complete method of over 400 musical exercises for teaching upper-level string students the technical skills needed to play advanced orchestral music. Perfect for an entire string orchestra or solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, tuning canons, and much more. It includes everything an aspiring string musician needs to build musicianship skills and then transfer those skills into the performance of great literature.
 
What's new in the second edition?
 
Part I. Tone and Articulation: The open-string exercises and bowing variations remain invaluable tools for teaching articulation skills. This edition now includes a rhythm canon for combining various articulations and new melodic exercises for developing tone, blend, vibrato, spiccato, and sautille.
 
Part II. Left-Hand Patterns, Positions, and Shifting: Left-hand exercises are organized into a sequence of musical exercises and etudes that review middle-level skills, extend up to the highest registers, and teach alternate clefs and thumb positions. A new Intermediate Positions curriculum teaches young cellists the shifting skills required for keys with more than three sharps or flats. A new sequence of two-octave arpeggios in ten keys improves students' range and fluency across the instrument. The Advanced Positions pages contain new etudes for teaching the chromatic scale, diminished arpeggios, harmonics, thumb position, alternate clefs, and other challenging skills seen in advanced orchestral repertoire.
 
Part III. Scales, Arpeggios, and Thirds: This section still has the much-loved tuning canons and chords, dominant arpeggios, and thirds as well as one-, two-, and three-octave scales and arpeggios in all 12 major and minor keys. Cello and bass fingerings are improved, and bass scales with C extensions are included.
 
Part IV. Chorales: There are now 50% more chorales in a greater variety of keys and from more diverse cultural backgrounds.
 
Parts V. Rhythm Study in a Musical Context and VI. Sight-Reading: These sections contain 185 completely new rhythm charts and sight-reading exercises with tempo markings for each exercise. This well-sequenced curriculum teaches students how to count and decipher rhythms and then transfer rhythmic literacy to melodic sight-reading in a musical context.
 
Part VII. Orchestral Excerpts: This brand-new section includes three pages of excerpts from frequently performed school and all-state repertoire. Sequenced from moderately difficult to expert, these excerpts are the perfect culmination of skills taught in this method and are ideal for auditions or final exams. Additional sectional pages in each student book focus on technique and alternate clef lessons unique to each instrument.

Habits of a Successful String Musician

Randall Standridge Music, LLC

A warm-up book for intermediate to advanced players designed as a drop-in resource for mastering skills from finger patterns (a.k.a. "gears") to bow technique, rhythms, and more! Carefully designed by three long-time string educators with pedagogy and technique in mind, students will feel like the teacher is right there with them in the book; teachers will appreciate the varied repetition and opportunities for differentiation. Catchy acronyms, analogies, and visuals will assist with understanding – but most importantly, students will enjoy playing the fun and challenging exercises as they develop their skills.

Getting in Gear: Fundamental Warm-Ups for String Orchestra

Violin Method Book Book

The Essential Elements for Strings series has been meticulously redesigned to improve the student learning experience and lighten the teacher's load. While the updates are exciting, you will find that it is the same great method – but with new music and more online resources. Teachers will love the added resources meant to address common friction points that occur with each instrument. Students will love online access to today's pop songs arranged for their instrument and level of playing. Don't toss out your old editions – these books are compatible with Essential Elements 2000 and newer editions!

Essential Elements for Strings, Book 2

Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Strings just got an update! It has been meticulously re-designed to improve the student learning experience and lighten the teacher's load. While the new updates are exciting, you will find that it is the same great method, but with new music and more online resources. 
 
Don't toss out the old editions! The new Essential Elements books are compatible with EE 2000 and newer editions!
 
Teachers will love the added resources meant to address common friction points experienced with each instrument. Students will love online access to today's pop songs arranged for their instrument and level of playing.

Essential Technique for Strings

Habits of a Successful String Musician is a field-tested, vital, and musical collection of almost 400 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string orchestra or solo player at virtually any skill level, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, tuning canons, and much more.

Habits of a Successful String Musician, First Edition

Neil A. Kjos Music Company

This mariachi method is extremely thorough and a good value! Each book is completely bilingual, with English and Spanish side by side on each page. There are many full-color photos of traditional clothing and dances. The book is divided into sections based on types of songs, e.g. Ranchero Valseada is followed by Bolero Ranchero and so on. Each book comes with a CD of examples and exercises.

Mariachi Mastery

Violin Method Book 1 and 2

Series

This updated version contains scales, etudes, short chorales, and music technique exercises and is fully compatible with Essential Techniques 2000 for Strings. The CD contains individual instrument studies for every instrument, demonstrated by a professional soloist. Includes accompaniments on real instruments, not synthesized. Also includes Reading Skill Builders, Rhythm Pages, Jazz Style and Improvisation, Full Chorales, Rubank Scales and Arpeggios, all included on CD. Also works on history. theory and creativity and exceeds the National Standards for Arts Education.

Tempo Press

A sequential approach to teaching sight-reading in the string ensemble, appropriate for middle school through high school. The method features over 45 sequenced sight-reading pieces, sight-reading notes for the teacher for each arrangement, and materials organized into units that progressively address bowing styles, rhythms, meter, and key (D, G, and C major; B, E, and A minor). Pre- and post-tests are also included in each unit for assessing individual student progress. Units 1-6 contain rhythm reading exercises, scale warm-ups, unison reading, and orchestra arrangement readings with parts. Units 7-12 each contain scale warm-ups for each piece and longer orchestra readings.

Expressive Sight-Reading for Orchestra

A comprehensive method for beginning string classes: through technical exercises, world music, classical themes, and original compositions, students will learn to play their stringed instruments in an orchestra. Step-by-step sequences of instruction will prove invaluable as students learn to hold their instruments and bows, find new notes, count different rhythms, read music notation, and more. Clear, full-color photographs and fingering chart diagrams introduce playing positions, bow holding and bowing, and left-hand finger patterns.
Duets, rounds, trios, and orchestra arrangements develop students' ability to play in an ensemble setting right away, strengthening ear training and intonation. The Interactive Practice Studio is a unique downloadable resource containing a wealth of supporting materials. Also available to teachers is the Interactive Teacher's Studio with even more helpful tips and strategies.

String Basics, Book 1

Continuing the emphasis on playing with a characteristic, beautiful sound, this method also focuses on three octave scales that students will need for auditions and competitions. Advanced technical skills are presented in four levels, consistent with the Sound Innovations structure: Sound Tone, Sound Bowing, Sound Shifting and Sound Scales and Arpeggios. The levels can be used in the order that is best for your students, as individual warm-ups or as structured units. The perfect book to follow Sound Development for Intermediate String Orchestra, or for any advanced student or string ensemble.

Sound Innovations: Sound Development for Advanced String Orchestra

Violin Collection

Kendor Music Publishing

Drawing on her many years as a string educator, Neidhold presents the fundamentals that a beginning string student needs to know. This student workbook contains exercises on clefs, note naming, time signatures, counting and more! It is laid out in a very student-friendly format and will be a valuable resource for beginning players.

String Theory

The fourth addition to Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Strings series is perfect for your advanced level students. Each book includes: detailed practice routine for scales; three octave major and minor scales and arpeggios; systematic fingering system for scales; extensive shifting exercises for advanced positions; shifting reinforcement in a musical context using unison orchestra excerpts; advanced technical development; sequenced rhythmic and bowing studies and more!

Advanced Technique for Strings

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