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Essential Technique for Strings - Viola Book 3

Essential Technique for Strings Book 3 further develops music skills for the intermediate and advancing student. Book 3 introduces students to higher positions, shifting, advanced bowing, and special techniques.

  • Exercises for open string, same finger and different finger shifts
  • Embedded auxiliary notes for accurate shifting without confusing notation
  • Unison exercises to reinforce and develop shifts to and from higher positions
  • Includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment
  • Sight-reading and rhythm pages
    Includes through 3 sharps and 3 flats
    Violin and viola finger patterns for both first and third positions
    Exercises in unison and thirds, scales and arpeggios to help reinforce keys
    Four-part Chorales
    A, E, D, G and C minor
    All three forms of the minor scale included
    Two unison exercises reinforce each minor key
  • Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics
  • Treble clef for viola


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.