Essential Technique for Strings Book 3 for Viola is designed for intermediate students ready to advance their playing and musicianship. Ideal for private lessons, classroom instruction, or independent study, this method book builds upon foundational viola skills with structured exercises and performance etudes that guide learners toward expressive and confident playing. Perfect for teachers, adult learners, and advancing students, it supports steady technical and musical development.
What’s Inside: This comprehensive method includes scales, shifting studies, tone control, bowing exercises, and musical interpretation specifically written for the viola. The book also integrates ensemble-style pieces that prepare students for real-world performance. It features Essential Elements Interactive (EEi) access — an innovative online platform offering over 150 video lessons, interactive play-alongs, assessments, and real-time feedback. Students can learn at their own pace while receiving professional-level guidance from the comfort of home.
Why It’s Valuable: This resource strengthens left-hand dexterity, improves intonation, and enhances rhythmic precision. It promotes consistent practice through guided instruction and visual demonstrations, helping players develop a balanced tone and musical confidence. Teachers appreciate its flexibility for group or private instruction, while students value its motivating, structured approach. The book connects seamlessly with earlier volumes, ensuring smooth progression through the Essential Elements series.
Trusted by teachers and loved by students. A thoughtful gift for aspiring violists, this book inspires musical growth and expressive performance — perfect for recitals, classroom learning, or personal enrichment.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. (Essential Elements). Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. E 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. E 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 (Ei), the ultimate online music education resource. Ei 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. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here. Seller Inventory # 00109906585
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. (Essential Elements). Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. E 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. E 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 (Ei), the ultimate online music education resource. Ei 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. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here. Seller Inventory # 00109591074
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Essential Elements). Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. E 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. E 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 (Ei), the ultimate online music education resource. Ei 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. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here. Seller Inventory # 00109593014
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. (Essential Elements). Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. E 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. E 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 (Ei), the ultimate online music education resource. Ei 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. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here. Seller Inventory # CIN0634069306A
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Paperback. Condition: Good. (Essential Elements). Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. E 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. E 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 (Ei), the ultimate online music education resource. Ei 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. For a complete overview of Book 3, click here. Seller Inventory # CIN0634069306G