Essential Elements For Band - Book 1

Essential Elements for Band 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.

These new editions include 250+ professionally recorded vides online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new colour photography, and much more. Best of all, new editions still work side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements.

Method features:

• Enhanced Learning System
• Optimum Reinforced Learning
• Theory, History, Cross-Curriculum & Creativity
• Daily Warm-ups & Rubank Studies
• 12 Full Band Arrangements
• Rhythm Studies

Conductor Book also includes CD-ROM and My EE Library* (myeelibrary.com) for Instant Stream/Download

• Start-up video Learn the basics
• Play-along mp3* tracks for all exercises. Features a professional player on each individual instrument
• Tempo adjustment software Play tracks at desired tempo
• Duets and trios Print and play parts with friends
• Music listening library Hear great pieces for band!

*PC or Mac computer required for CD-ROM use. Internet access required for My EE Library. MP3 files will play on most current CD or DVD players.

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