GIA Habits of a Successful String Musician Cello
A Comprehensive Curriculum for Use During Fundamentals Time

Christopher Selby, Scott Rush

Intermediate/Advanced Level

Habits of a Successful String Musician, Second Edition is a complete method of over 400 musical exercises for teaching upper-level string students the technical skills needed to play advanced orchestral music. Perfect for an entire string orchestra or solo player, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary studies, chorales, tuning canons, and much more. It includes everything an aspiring string musician needs to build musicianship skills and then transfer those skills into the performance of great literature.

Part I. Tone and Articulation
Part II. Left Hand Patterns, Positions, and Shifting
Part III. Scales, Arpeggios, and Thirds
Part IV. Chorales
Parts V. Rhythm Study in a Musical Context and VI. Sight-Reading
Part VII. Orchestral Excerpts
Additional Sectional Pages in each student book focus on technique and alternate clef lessons unique to each instrument.

ISBN: 978-1-62277-818-8
80 Pages
Softcover