Essential Elements for Strings with EE Online Resources: Book 1

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.

What’s Been Added?
 •  150+ professionally recorded videos online   
  with Essential Elements veteran teachers
 • 50 new copyrighted pop songs available   
  online across all levels
 • 3 new song replacements

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR STRINGS – 
INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT
 Book 1
 • Enhanced Starting System
 • Optimum reinforced learning
 • Pacing
 • Theory, History, Cross-Curriculum and Creativity
 • Performance Spotlights
 • Accurate illustrations help develop proper playing position
 • Listening Skills for each new note for accurate intonation
 • Subdivision introduced from the beginning
 • Assessment for immediate evaluation of students’ skills
 • Large, clear Fingering Charts
 • Special page devoted solely to mixing Finger Patterns
 • Solo with piano accompaniment for each instrument
 • Access to Bonus Songs
 • Instrument-specific instructional videos

 Book 2
 • Book 1 review section
 • EE features continued and expanded
 • New keys
 • New rhythms and meters
 • Performance Spotlights
 • Finger patterns
 • Sequential or flexible format
 • 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
 • Access to Bonus Songs
 • Instrument-specific instructional videos
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 Book 3
 • Higher Positions and Shifting
 • Keys and Scales
 • Bowings, Rhythms and Vibrato
 • Advanced positions
 • Violin and viola shifting sequences
 • Essential Elements features continued and expanded
 • 7 major keys
 • 5 minor keys
 • 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
 • Bonus songs