Habits of a Successful String Musician

Habits of a Successful String Musician:

• Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing skills that lead to the mastery of reading rhythms, and ultimately, to musical sight-reading.
• Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels.
• Organizes tone, rhythm and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series.
• Creates finger pattern and velocity studies that address the most common problems encountered by intermediate orchestra students.
• Provides beginning through advanced shifting exercises for students of every level.
• Creates exercises for learning alternate clefs and higher positions.
• Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend and musicianship.
• Presents rhythm charts in a new format that allows transfer from timing and rhythm to pitches in a musical context.
• Provides audition sight-reading in a classroom “full ensemble” format that is well planned in scope and sequence. There are over 130 sight-reading examples in this book.
• Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making.

Habits of a Successful String Musician is the answer to the very simple question: “What should I be learning during fundamentals time?