Description
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. The 3 major sections are Higher Positions and Shifting (positions II, III, IV, V; incl. 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), Keys and Scales (major keys through 3 sharps and 3 flats and all three forms of A, E, D, G and C minor), Bowings, Rhythms and Vibrato. Includes theory, history, multicultural music, creativity and assessment, Introduction of vibrato, spiccato, enharmonics and chromatics, and treble clef. Sight-reading and rhythm pages
