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STRING METHODS & TECHNIQUE
STRING
METHODS
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10 Intonation Studies and Chorales—
Brian Balmages. Enhance your warm-up and
develop stellar intonation with this thoughtful set
of ten intonation studies and chorales. Designed
to help students hear harmony in a logical and
progressive way, exercises include harmonizing
scales to open strings, the use of open string
drones during chorales, studies in various keys,
attention to bow distribution and much more.
Complete with an extensive discussion featuring
practical uses for each study and suggested
combinations throughout the year.
10748213 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . .50.00
Bornoff's Finger Patterns—George Bornoff.
This book focuses on skill development. The open
string cycle, finger patterns, and one-finger shifting
provide the repetition needed to master various
skills through creative review. All four strings
and five finger patterns are studied with legato,
spiccato, and slurred bowings.
10936555 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.95
10936556 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.95
10936557 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.95
Daily Warmups for String Orchestra—
Michael Allen. This set of excellent warm-ups
provides a great way to start off your rehearsals.
This sequential set of exercises that can be used
at a number of different developmental levels.
Students will receive daily reinforcement of valuable
fundamentals as the exercises progress through
these techniques: tuning, warm-up patterns,
finger patterns, stylistic bowings, double stops,
long tones, string crossing, shifting, chromatic
alterations, and scales.
2293512 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
2360790 Additional Score . . . . . . . . . . . .7.50
Essential Technique for Strings
(Essential Elements, Book 3)—
Michael Allen, Robert Gillespie &
Pamela Tellejohn Hayes. This updated version
contains scales, etudes, short chorales, and music
technique exercises and is fully compatible with
Essential Techniques 2000 for Strings. The CD
contains individual instrument studies for every
instrument, demonstrated by a professional soloist.
Includes accompaniments on real instruments, not
synthesized. Also includes Reading Skill Builders,
Rhythm Pages, Jazz Style and Improvisation,
Full Chorales, Rubank Scales and Arpeggios, all
included on CD. Also works on history, theory,
creativity, and exceeds the National Standards for
Arts Education.
2477032 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.99
2477033 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.99
2477034 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.99
2477035 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.99
2477036 Piano Accompaniment . . . . . .14.99
2477037 Conductor's Book, CD . . . . . .44.99
Fine Tuning—Frank Spinosa & Harold Rusch.
This collection includes 50 short pieces such as
chorales, classical works and folk tunes at the
intermediate level. The book is neatly organized by
key signatures and groups the major with its relative
minor, helping you teach key relationships while
building intonation skills and ensemble playing.
4918454 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.25
4918462 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50
4918470 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50
4918488 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50
4918447 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.95
The First Ten Minutes—Merle J. Isaac.
This unique book for the developing orchestra
will immediately improve the group's intonation,
rhythmic accuracy, and balance. Five major keys are
comprehensively explored with scales, arpeggios,
broken thirds, scales in rhythms, and rhythm
patterns. Each tonal study area culminates in two
ensemble numbers suitable for performance. . . . .
4805057 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.95
4805065 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.95
4805073 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.95
4805081 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5.95
4805040 Piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.50
4805032 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.95
Habits of a Successful Middle Level
String Musician—Christopher Selby.
This field-tested musical collection of over 300
sequenced exercises for building fundamentals
can be used with a string orchestra or individual
student. This series contains carefully sequenced
finger pattern and shifting etudes, tone and
articulation warm-ups, sight-reading exercises,
rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, and much
more. In one place, this series collects everything
an aspiring player needs to build fundamental
musicianship skills.
10844326 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10844328 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10844329 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10844332 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10844333 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34.95
Habits of a Successful String
Musician—Rich Moon and Christopher
Selby. Habits of a Successful String Musician
is a field-tested, vital, and musical collection of
almost 400 sequenced exercises for building
fundamentals. Perfect to use with the entire string
orchestra or solo player at virtually any skill level,
this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups,
sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary studies,
chorales, tuning canons, and much more.
10482419 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10482420 Viola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10482421 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10482422 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.95
10482423 Conductor Full Score . . . . . . .34.95
Pepper has made my job
easier and has made me
better able to touch the
lives of my students
through music, and for
that, I thank you.
– Victor N.