Essential Elements for Strings Book 3

Essential Technique — Strings - Book 3

Essential Technique for Strings Book 3 further develops music skills for the intermediate and advancing student. Book 3 introduces students to higher positions, shifting, advanced bowing, and special techniques.

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• More great play-along tracks!
• Includes exercises 1-76
• Download / Stream at www.myeelibrary.com.

• Higher Positions and Shifting
• Keys and Scales
• Bowings, Rhythms and Vibrato

• For all instruments
• Violin and viola: II, III, IV, V
• Cello: 1/2, II, II ext., II1/2, III, III ext., IV, IV ext.
• Bass: 1/2, II, II1/2, III, III1/2, IV, V, V1/2

• Exercises for open string, same finger and different finger shifts
• Embedded auxiliary notes for accurate shifting without confusing notation
• Unison exercises to reinforce and develop shifts to and from higher positions

• Includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment
• Sight-reading and rhythm pages

• Includes through 3 sharps and 3 flats
• Violin and viola finger patterns for both first and third positions
• Exercises in unison and thirds, scales and arpeggios to help reinforce keys
• Four-part Chorales

• A, E, D, G and C minor
• All three forms of the minor scale included
• Two unison exercises reinforce each minor key

• Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics
• Treble clef for viola; tenor clef for cello and bass
• Cello and bass thumb positions
• Jazz lines for bass

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Book 3 of the Essential Elements 2000 for Strings series, Essential Technique 2000 includes exercises for the higher positions and shifting, along with scales, bowings and special techniques. Also includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment, along with sight-reading and rhythm pages. All this PLUS a CD with more great play-along tracks.

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