Essential Elements Strings Book 2 continues the EE learning system starting with a review of Book 1. Book 2 further develops performance skills with exercises in new keys, additional rhythms and advancing finger positions.

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• 6 opening pages cover all Book 1 elements
• Great refresher to start the 2nd year

• Includes Rhythm Raps, Listening Skills, Theory, History, Multicultural Music, Creativity and Assessment
• Introduces and develops sight-reading

• D (lower octave) and A Major
• F and B-flat major
• G and D Minor

• Dotted notes
• Sixteenth-notes
• Syncopation
• 6/8 meter
• Cut time
• Triplets

• Full string orchestra arrangements
• Arranged by John Higgins
• Various styles and levels

• For violins and violas
• By pattern, string and key

• 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

• Skills can be taught when needed
• New rhythms introduced in D Major
• New keys introduced in 4/4

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