Now the best-selling string method is even better! The same great method that teachers have come to trust now includes a CD AND a DVD. Features include: · BOOK: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! · CD/CD-ROM FEATURES: Play-Along Tracks 1-71 (with a professional player for every instrument) · DVD FEATURES: Startup Video (learn the basics - 15 min.); ALL 193 Play-Along Tracks; More Duets and Trios; Music Listening Library · CD AND DVD EACH FEATURE: SmartMusic® Software (practice, record, and e-mail a performance, plus on-screen assessment - includes Ex. 1-86 with special offer to continue); Finale® NotePad® Software; Tempo Adjustment Software (for Play-Along Tracks)

New keys and rhythms are introduced in this book, which can be used in a sequential or flexible format. The CD includes play-along tracks for the student that feature real players playing real instruments (not synthesized). Book 2 also features large, clear fingering charts, mixed meter studies, comprehensive scale and arpeggio pages, double stops, and shifting exercises.

Now the best-selling string method is even better! The same great method that teachers have come to trust now includes a CD AND a DVD. Features include: · BOOK: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! · CD/CD-ROM FEATURES: Play-Along Tracks 1-71 (with a professional player for every instrument) · DVD FEATURES: Startup Video (learn the basics - 15 min.); ALL 193 Play-Along Tracks; More Duets and Trios; Music Listening Library · CD AND DVD EACH FEATURE: SmartMusic® Software (practice, record, and e-mail a performance, plus on-screen assessment - includes Ex. 1-86 with special offer to continue); Finale® NotePad® Software; Tempo Adjustment Software (for Play-Along Tracks)

New keys and rhythms are introduced in this book, which can be used in a sequential or flexible format. The CD includes play-along tracks for the student that feature real players playing real instruments (not synthesized). Book 2 also features large, clear fingering charts, mixed meter studies, comprehensive scale and arpeggio pages, double stops, and shifting exercises.

Now the best-selling string method is even better! The same great method that teachers have come to trust now includes a CD AND a DVD. Features include: · BOOK: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! · CD/CD-ROM FEATURES: Play-Along Tracks 1-71 (with a professional player for every instrument) · DVD FEATURES: Startup Video (learn the basics - 15 min.); ALL 193 Play-Along Tracks; More Duets and Trios; Music Listening Library · CD AND DVD EACH FEATURE: SmartMusic® Software (practice, record, and e-mail a performance, plus on-screen assessment - includes Ex. 1-86 with special offer to continue); Finale® NotePad® Software; Tempo Adjustment Software (for Play-Along Tracks)

New keys and rhythms are introduced in this book, which can be used in a sequential or flexible format. The CD includes play-along tracks for the student that feature real players playing real instruments (not synthesized). Book 2 also features large, clear fingering charts, mixed meter studies, comprehensive scale and arpeggio pages, double stops, and shifting exercises.

Now the best-selling string method is even better! The same great method that teachers have come to trust now includes a CD AND a DVD. Features include: · BOOK: Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! · CD/CD-ROM FEATURES: Play-Along Tracks 1-71 (with a professional player for every instrument) · DVD FEATURES: Startup Video (learn the basics - 15 min.); ALL 193 Play-Along Tracks; More Duets and Trios; Music Listening Library · CD AND DVD EACH FEATURE: SmartMusic® Software (practice, record, and e-mail a performance, plus on-screen assessment - includes Ex. 1-86 with special offer to continue); Finale® NotePad® Software; Tempo Adjustment Software (for Play-Along Tracks)

The second book in the Essential Elements for Strings series reinforces the techniques learned in Book 1, and also introduces new concepts and develops skills in areas such as dynamics, rhythms, and sight-reading. Features a broad scope, comprehensive detail, great pacing, thorough reinforcement, and much more!

Book 3 includes exercises for the higher positions and shifting, along with scales, bowings and special techniques. With a CD including more great play-along tracks. Also includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment, along with sight-reading and rhythm pages.