Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician

Habits of a Successful Middle Level String Musician:

• Presents a differentiated, sequential, and comprehensive method for developing finger pattern and shifting skills to address the most common problems encountered by intermediate level orchestra students.
• Organizes tone, rhythm, and articulation patterns into a flexible and sequential series.
• Creates a method for teaching scales, arpeggios, and thirds that simultaneously accommodates students of different ability levels.
• Provides chorales for the development of intonation, tone quality, blend, and musicianship.
• Presents sequenced rhythm vocabulary charts in a format that allows transfer from timing to pitches in a musical context.
• Includes over ten pages of audition sight-reading exercises in a full- ensemble format that is well planned in scope and sequence.
• Promotes the idea that students should cross the threshold from the “technical components of playing” to music making.