Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. Essential Elements for Band 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. Essential Elements for Band provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages.
Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000
Features
- Book 1 review section
- Daily Warm-ups
- Rhythm Raps, sight-reading and improvisation
- Theory, history and multicultural music
- Creativity and assessment
- Instrument-specific etudes
- Rubank Studies and solo
- 12 full band arrangements
