Now the best-selling string method is even better! Book 1 for absolute beginners includes a start-up video and much, much more, all on CD-ROM. Features: - Same great Essential Elements 2000 method! - 15-minute video/super lesson for learning the basics - Play-along mp3* tracks for all 193 exercises (featuring a professional player on every instrument) - Tempo Adjustment Software - Duets and Trios - Music Listening Library - SmartMusic® Software for Exercises 1-100 (for use on PC/Mac) - practice, record, and email a performance with on-screen assessment *mp3 files will play on most current CD or DVD players

This is the first book in a series which has been specifically developed to meet the needs of beginner string students aged 7-12. Contemporary, vibrant, creative, engaging and comprehensive each piece features a particular teaching point such as introducing a new note, a new skill or perhaps reinforcing previous elements within a new context. To assist both teacher and student the teaching point relevant to that piece then appears underneath its title.