Boosey & Hawkes

The award-winning Essential String Method offers an exciting advance in teaching stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset. Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire.
The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activities involving the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporated into instrumental lessons, simultaneously developing the pupil’s technical and musical abilities while reinforcing aspects of the school music curriculum.
Developed by leading string teachers, The Essential String Method provides a proven framework that draws on recognised concepts in good teaching practice, laying reliable foundations for future musical development.
The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 1).
Carnival Waltz (Elliott)
Conversation Piece (JS Bach arr Nelson)
Doodle Day (Elliott)
Fly like a Bird (Nelson)
Grandfather’s Clock (Elliott)
Hatikvah (Elliott)
High Jump (Nelson)
I have a Bonnet (Nelson)
Jiggy Jessie (Howard)
John Grumlie (Elliott)
Lament (Thorne)
Marching Scale (York)
Marmaduke Mackenzie (Nelson)
Michael Finnegan (Nelson)
New Waltz Variations (Nelson)
Pease Pudding Hot (Nelson)
Poor Old John (Nelson)
Reeling Around (Nelson)
Shortnin’ Bread (Nelson)
Snakes & Ladders (Elliott)
Swinging Scale (York)
This Old Man (Elliott)
Tree Swing (Nelson)
Turkey in the Straw (Nelson)
Turn the Glasses Over (Nelson)
Waltzing Scale (York)
Whirlpool (Nelson)