Essential Elements for Strings - Teacher Manual, Book 1 with Online Resources

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 includes free access 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.

This new edition includes 150+ professionally recorded videos online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new color photography, and much more. Best of all, this new edition still works side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements.

The Teacher Manuals include:

• Complete scores of every exercise, including all special instructions for each instrument
• Scope and sequence charts, a handy reference that shows on which page each concept, new note, or technique is introduced for each instrument
• Sample communication letters to parents and tips on evaluation reports
• Notes to the teacher with tips and suggestions for each new concept or technique presented
• Strings Book 1 includes a guide for selecting the correctly-sized instrument for students, based on their hand size (1/2, 3/4, full, etc.)
• Teacher access to online reources to create a class, hear recordings, and play accompaniments for exercises. Teachers can also access student recordings.

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Composer or Author: Michael Allen et.al.
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Instrument: Conductor
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