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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 that 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. For more information, visit Hal Leonard Online - Essential Elements Interactive.
Third Position on the D String - Tuning Track
Second Position on the E String
A Major - Finger Patterns
Each finger pattern is a combination of whole steps and half steps. In the open hand pattern in third position, there is a whole step between each finger. Other patterns have half steps between fingers 1-2, 2-3, or 3-4.
Minor keys and their scales sound different from major keys because of their different pattern of whole and half steps. Each minor key is relative or "related" to the major key with the same key signature.
The simplest form of a minor key is called natural minor. Two other types are harmonic minor and melodic minor, each of which have certain altered tones.
Positions
Major Keys
Minor Keys
