Essential Elements for Band with Online Resources - Tenor Saxophone (Book 2)

Tenor Saxophone (Book 2)

Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Band just got an update! It has been meticulously redesigned to improve the student learning experience and lighten the teacher's load. While the new updates are exciting, you will find that it is the same great method, but with new music and more online resources. Teachers will love the added resources meant to address common friction points experienced with each instrument. Students will love online access to today's pop songs arranged for their instruments and level of playing.

 

What's been added?

• 200+ professionally recorded videos online with Essential Elements veteran teachers
• 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels
• 3 new song replacements
• New color photos
• Proper posture photos with young musicians
• Proper hand positions clearly shown
• Instrument assembly photos

 

Instructional Videos Online

Hundreds of new videos have been added to the online library across all instruments. These videos are recorded by real life teachers who have used Essential Elements for years with their students. These videos are instrument-specific and address various friction points that can creep up, especially in group instruction settings.

 

Included Videos:

• Slurring on the trombone
• Going over the break on the clarinet
• Flicking on the bassoon
• Right-hand placement on the F horn
• Bis B-flat on the saxophone
• Forked F on the oboe
• Using the third valve slide on the trumpet
• Cleaner articulations on the tuba
• Over 50 percussion videos! Tips on the tambourine, timpani, bass drum, triangle, sleigh bells, cymbals, snare drum, claves, mallets, etc.

 

Correlated, Copyrighted Pop Music

Recent, popular Bonus Songs available online on Essential Elements Interactive that are pedagogically appropriate for what the student has learned at various points in the books. Students can play familiar parts of the most recent pop songs from artists like Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and more! All are played in comfortable keys and with notes and rhythms they have already learned.

 

• Pedagogically appropriate
• Play familiar parts of the most recent songs
• Comfortable keys
• Notes and rhythms students have already learned

 

Book 2 Features:

• Book 1 review section
• EE features continued and expanded
• Individual studies for each instrument
• Rubank® Studies and solo for each instrument
• Combined percussion book (drums and keyboard)
• Large, clear fingering charts
• Progress and practice charts
• Concise, easy-to-use conductor book
• Access to Bonus Songs
• Instrument-specific instructional videos

Model:	00870324
Manufacturer:	Hal Leonard