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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

Violin Method Book

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

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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

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

Alfred Music Publishing

It is time to revolutionize fundamental skill practice while also motivating students to practice twice as much on average! This is not a play-along book. Rather, it is part of the Foundations Series, a living, breathing supplemental method that is constantly evolving and lives exclusively in MakeMusic Cloud. It addresses the critical skills students encounter in a typical beginning strings method, all while providing stunning movie soundtracks from Harry's first two years at Hogwarts. Along with complete scores for all exercises, this book also includes curriculum text by expert pedagogue Annie Ray, winner of the Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum. All student exercises and accompaniments are available exclusively in MakeMusic Cloud; parts can be printed at no charge with a subscription – there are no hard-copy student parts available for purchase. Soundtracks are from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."

Harry Potter Foundations: Strings Book 1

Conductor Method Book

¡El método de cuerdas líder en el mundo acaba de actualizarse! Essential Elements para Cuerdas ofrece a los estudiantes principiantes una pedagogía sólida y música atractiva, todo ello cuidadosamente programado para iniciar con éxito a los jóvenes instrumentistas en su viaje musical. EE incluye canciones conocidas y ejercicios especialmente diseñados, creados, y adaptados para el aula en un entorno de aprendizaje al unísono, así como ejercicios específicos de cada instrumento para centrar a cada estudiante en las características únicas de su propio instrumento. EE proporciona tanto a profesores como a alumnos una gran cantidad de materiales para desarrollar la musicalidad total, incluso en las etapas iniciales.
Essential Elements incluye acceso gratuito a Essential Elements Interactive (EEi), el recurso definitivo de educación musical en línea. EEi presenta el primer conjunto sencillo de herramientas tecnológicas para la enseñanza, el aprendizaje, la evaluación, y la comunicación en línea, ideal para enseñar a los estudiantes principiantes de banda y cuerdas de hoy en día, tanto en el aula como en casa.
Estas nuevas ediciones incluyen más de 150 videos grabados profesionalmente en línea con los educadores de Essential Elements, 50 nuevas canciones pop con derechos de autor disponibles en línea para todos los niveles, tres nuevas sustituciones de canciones, nuevas fotografías en color, y mucho más. Lo mejor de todo es que las nuevas ediciones siguen siendo compatibles con las copias anteriores de Essential Elements.

Essential Elements para Cuerdas, Libro Numero 1

Violin Method Book Recursos en Linea Incluido

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

TML Publications

Infuse social-emotional learning and personal growth into your music curriculum in a meaningful way with this fantastic method book. Students focus on becoming better people, better musicians, and having fun! Available as two separate books in black and white, or as one complete deluxe color edition.

Music FUNdations for Strings

Violin Method Book Student Book A (Black & White)

Excelcia Music Publishing, LLC

A collection of 123 daily exercises divided into three sections: rhythms, etudes, and chorales. Designed with the limited time of the modern classroom in mind, it is tailored to optimize rehearsals by providing a streamlined approach to musical growth across three fundamental areas. There is an exploration of rhythm with an assortment of over 40 patterns featuring a variety of time signatures, a collection of etudes to bolster key relationships and technical accuracy, and a compendium of over 40 chorales spanning a robust range of keys and styles. Etudes and chorales explore eight of the major keys and their relative minors, making this resource one of a kind and a must-have for any modern string orchestra library.

Easy as 1-2-3

Teacher's Kit Method Book Teacher Edition

This comprehensive supplemental resource for the classroom or studio provides specific strategies to develop sight-reading skills with individuals or large group ensembles. Violin, viola, cello, and bass students will develop consistent reading habits and improve sight-reading skills. Using a unique nonsequential unit format, the 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.

Sight-Read It for Strings

Violin Collection

The Muller- Rusch String Series has helped create successful string programs for over 45 years! The complete, thorough, and sequential course of study ensures the succesful, simultaneous development of all string instruments, building a solid foundation whether used for class or individual instruction. Five books in progressive levels of difficulty, are available for Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass, and Full Conductor Score/Piano Accompaniment.

Muller Rusch String Method Vol. 3

Boosey & Hawkes, Inc

String Method for Class or Individual Instruction.

Young Strings in Action No. 1-Teach

Reproducible

String Riffs Publications

String Riffs Volume One Flex-Pack offers 3 levels of performance parts:
<ul>
<li>Part A-Tune</li>
<li>Part B-Challenge</li>
<li>Part C-Open strings or basic notes</li>
</ul>
A few pieces even have a solo part for your go-getters or for you to accompany your students.
The pieces sound like an orchestra and students have music to fit their level of learning. Start from the open strings and build up to your challenge players. The Finale MP3 for Volume One Flex-Pack uses the same piano part from our Original Volume One, but has A, B, C, and D parts represented as violinists.
The response to the Flex-Pack has been huge! You may send the files digitally to your students, you may record them playing and also present the music on-line. Please do not copy the score or share with your fellow string teachers.
The String Riffs Volume One Flex-Pack introduces entry-level beginners to note names, arco and pizzicato, dynamics, string crossings, syncopation, reading and good posture. Open strings and sound effects teach counting, shifting, bow technique, and the elements of rhythm. Concept maps help teachers align lesson plans. Levels 0.5 – 1 for string orchestra.
This volume coordinates perfectly with String Riffs Volume One – Piano/Conductor, String Riffs Student Volume One, and the String Riffs Volume One Accompaniment CD.
String Riffs D and A
Sing and pizzicato your way through the steps of reading, playing, and counting while learning good posture, how to visually track notes, and the elements of rhythm.
String Riffs D and A teaches:
<ul>
<li>singing and pizzicato</li>
<li>reading, counting, playing</li>
<li>posture</li>
<li>elements of rhythm</li>
</ul>

String Riffs Volume One Flex-Pack

Method Book Bundle with MP3 Downloads

Baerenreiter-Verlag

"Early Start on the Double Bass" offers budding musicians a foundational guide to mastering the double bass. Crafted by Holger Sassmannshaus and J. Peter Close, this methodical approach promotes early development and technical skill. Ideal for beginners, it is meticulously arranged by J. Peter Close to ensure engaging and effective - Note: This music is composed by humans. No human-written product description is available, limiting search visibility. The AI-assisted description is for reference only.

Early Start on the Double Bass

String Bass Book 1

Hansen House

Dive into the delightful world of clarinet with the "Mini Fun Way Orchestra Book CLAR 2" by Gordon. This method book offers engaging lessons that guarantee improvement in technique and musicality, tailored for the developing musician. Perfect for young clarinetists eager to refine their skills and have fun learning. - Note: This music is composed by humans. No human-written product description is available, limiting search visibility. The AI-assisted description is for reference only.

MINI FUN WAY ORCHESTRA BOOK CLAR 2

Clarinet Collection 2

Dive into the delightful world of oboe with the "Mini Fun Way Orchestra Book"! Composed by the renowned Gordon, this method book is perfectly crafted for burgeoning musicians. Engage in enjoyable exercises and captivating pieces that will enhance your skills and deepen your love for the oboe. - Note: This music is composed by humans. No human-written product description is available, limiting search visibility. The AI-assisted description is for reference only.

MINI FUN WAY ORCHESTRA BOOK OBOE

Oboe Collection

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