Essential Elements for Band - Conductor Book 1: With Online Resources

(Essential Elements for Band). The world's leading band method just got an update! Essential Elements for Band 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 includes free access 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. These new editions include 250+ professionally recorded videos online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new color photography, and much more. Best of all, new editions still work side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements. The Conductor's Editions include: * Complete scores of every exercise, including all special instructions for each instrument * Fingering charts for all instruments * Trill charts for woodwind instruments (band book 3) * Scope and sequence charts, a handy reference that shows on which page each concept, new note, or technique is introduced for each instrument * Band Books 1 and 2 include a "Teacher Tip" before every exercise. These tips suggest pertinent concepts, reminders, or questions for the band throughout the books. * Access to online resources that assist the teacher with creating a class, hear recordings, and play accompaniments for exercises.…