Books
Essential Elements offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey.
Sound Innovations by Alfred Music is a dream-come-true method for beginning concert band and string orchestra. Its infusion of technology provides an open-ended architecture of the first order.
Habits of a Successful Young String Musician is a field-tested and musical collection of 220 sequenced exercises for the beginning string student. Also, the companion website (www.habitsstrings.com) features supplemental resources including accompaniment tracks, start-up clinic videos, and full performance videos for each exercise in the book.
The Suzuki Violin School, Volume 1 is a foundational text in the Suzuki Method of music education, because it is designed to teach violin playing through a “mother-tongue” approach that emphasizes listening, repetition, and a nurturing environment.
