Essential Elements for Band Percussion (Book 1)

Tim Lautzenheiser , John Higgins , Charles Menghini, Paul Lavender , Tom C. Rhodes, Don Bierschenk

General Info

Book 1

Pages: 142
Publication date: 01 April 2002
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 978-0-6340-0327-1
Cost:$17.99

Book 2

Pages: 144
Publication date: 01 September 2000
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 978-0-6340-1301-0
Cost:$17.99

Book 3

Pages: 144
Publication date:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
ISBN: 978-0-6340-4423-6
Cost:$17.99

Description

Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. Essential Elements 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. Essential Elements 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, the ultimate online music education resource. Essential Elements Interactive 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.

Content

Book 1

ENHANCED LEARNING SYSTEM
Book 1 uses unmeasured Long Tones to establish good tone production from the very beginning, and uses Quarter Notes to teach pulse and rhythm. By exercise 14 your students will be playing well-known melodies and enjoying the excitement of playing in the band !The unique considerations of Horns and Oboes are difficult to address using a classroom band method, so we've created special pages for these instruments with their own optional starting systems.
OPTIMUM REINFORCED LEARNING
New material is carefully paced, sequential and immediately reinforced. New notes are approached in the easiest ways, then gradually played within wider skips and different rhythms. Each new rhythm is introduced as a Rhythm Rap, then repeated on simple pitches, and finally placed in an appropriate melodic setting.
THEORY, HISTORY, CROSS-CURRICULUM AND CREATIVITY
It's all right in each student book, correlated with the music and concepts they are currently learning. This is by far the most efficient way to meet the National Standards, integrate other subjects into the music curriculum, and still teach the essentials of music performance.
DAILY WARM-UPS & RUBANK STUDIES
Establish good practice habits, tone and technique with the two sets of Daily Warm-ups included in each book. The Rubank Scale and Arpeggio Studies cover the four major keys taught in Book 1, all adapted from Rubank's "best-of-the-best" to expand your students' technical skills.
12 FULL BAND ARRANGEMENTS
Research shows that students are more likely to succeed (and stay in band) if they perform a concert for parents within the first 8 weeks. That's why we've created an impressive early concert featuring 6 full band arrangements after they've learned just 7 notes! The concert is the first of the Performance Spotlight features, which include 12 full band arrangements and 2 solos with piano accompaniment.
RHYTHM STUDIES
The additional Rhythm Studies pages include progressive measures of rhythms, which you can use to enhance rhythmic development at any stage. To make it fun and interesting, the Online Audio-ROM includes infectious percussion accompaniments at varied tempi. With a quarter-note pulse starting in the first lesson, the motivating rhythm raps, and plenty of reinforcement, Essential Elements students learn new rhythms quickly and easily.

Book 2

BOOK 1 REVIEW SECTION

• 3 opening pages that cover all Book 1 elements
• Great refresher to start the 2nd year
• Also works to quickly add new beginners or instrument switchers into the intermediate band

Essential Elements Features Continued and Expanded

• Includes rhythm raps, daily warm-ups, theory, history, multi-cultural music, creativity and assessment
• Introduces sight-reading and improvisation

INDIVIDUAL STUDIES FOR EACH INSTRUMENT

• 2 pages of special etudes that teach specific skills, appropriate for each instrument
• Demonstrated by a professional soloist on Online Audio
• Classical style piano accompaniments on Online Audio
• Expands and strengthens concepts taught within Book 2

RUBANK STUDIES AND A SOLO FOR EACH INSTRUMENT

• From the very best of student etude and solo literature
• Key, scale and chorale studies for full band
• Rubank solo with piano accompaniment included in each student book
• Online Audio features a professional soloist and accompaniment

OTHER ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FEATURES

• Combined percussion book (drums and keyboard)
• Large, clear fingering charts
• Progress and practice charts
• Concise, easy to use conductor book

Book 3

INDIVIDUAL STUDIES AND MY ESSENTIAL ELEMENT LIBRARY
A MULTI-PURPOSE BOOK FOR ANY BAND PROGRAM
KEY-CENTERED SYSTEM

• 9 major and related minor keys
• Each introduced with scales, Rubank-style etudes and a chord balance exercise
• Each key has a short, full-band chorale that includes every scale tone for every instrument

BOOK 2 CONTINUATION

• More great music that explores many styles and cultures
• Challenging concepts are only introduced in familiar keys
• Introduction of triple meters (12/8, 9/8, 3/8), more triplet based rhythms, rhythmic figures with rests, * and meter changes
• More music theory and terminology such as grace notes, divisi, and additional dynamics
• History and music of 16 composers, world music and style studies
• Integrated creativity and assessment that exceeds the National Standards

SPECIAL STUDIES SECTION

• Reading Skill Builders: To develop sight-reading skills
• Rhythm Pages: Like Book 1 & 2, special reinforcement for newly learned meters and rhythmic figures
• Basics of Jazz: A 2-page introduction to jazz style and improvisation, taken from Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble, but geared for concert band
• Full Chorales: For study or performance, arranged by John Higgins
• Rubank Scales and Arpeggios: In major and minor keys, in additional octaves and with downloadable audio tracks

ADDITIONAL ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUE FEATURES