A comprehensive string method.
Essential Elements for Band Book 2 continues the EE learning system with a review of Book 1. Book 2 further develops performance skills through a variety of exercises and melodies, including a section of individual studies designed for each instrument.
Specifications
- Author(s): Michael Allen, Pamela Tellejohn Hayes, Robert Gillespie
- Media: Softcover book with CD ROM
- Instrumentation: bass, cello, viola, violin
- Inventory #: HL00868133
- ISBN: 9781423408536
- UPC: 884088050139
- Size: 9" x 12"
- No. of pages: 149
Features
Each Book Includes My EE Library
- Play-along Tracks for All Exercises
- 6 opening pages cover all Book 1 elements
- Great refresher to start the 2nd year
- Includes Rhythm Raps, Listening Skills, Theory, History, Multicultural Music, Creativity and Assessment
- Introduces and develops sight-reading
- D (lower octave) and A Major
- F and B-flat major
- G and D Minor
- Dotted notes
- Sixteenth-notes
- Syncopation
- 6/8 meter
- Cut time
- Triplets
- Full string orchestra arrangements
- Arranged by John Higgins
- Various styles and levels
- For violins and violas
- By pattern, string and key
- Large, clear fingering charts
- Mixed meter
- Comprehensive scale and arpeggio pages
- Double stops
- Shifting introduced through harmonics
- Violin and viola extended third fingers and cello extensions introduced and reinforced
- Skills can be taught when needed
- New rhythms introduced in D Major
- New keys introduced in 4/4
- Series: Essential Elements String Method