Essential Technique for Strings with EEi: Cello (Intermediate Technique Studies)
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Essential Technique for Strings with EEi: Cello (Intermediate Technique Studies) Details
(Essential Elements). 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 now includes 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. For more information, visit Hal Leonard Online - Essential Elements Interactive. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here.
Reviews
The big positive of this book, especially if you are self-teaching (very difficult!) is that you don't have to wonder "What should I work on today?" Just go through the book page by page and you will gradually increase your technique, intonation, shifting ability, etc. You will also work on scales (far more important than you might think; they tend to show up everywhere in music) and start to learn vibrato. I would recommend using a tuner briefly to check the shifts, to train your ear as to the exact pitch, and your hand / fingers as to exactly where the note is. (No need to stare at it for a long time, just briefly, and it's for your ear, not your eyes.) I have a teacher, but I wanted the book so I didn't have to think about "what to do today" because that is too overwhelming.
