The award-winning "Essential String Method" offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset.
Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attrractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activites involving both the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporated into instrumental lessons, simultaneously developping 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 initial).

Content
  - Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  - Busy Bees
  - Come to the Zoo
  - Cowboy Chorus
  - Cuckoo Round
  - Dance the Night Away
  - Donald, Michael and Solomon
  - Echo Duet
  - Fed Up
  - Fish in the Sea
  - French Folk Song
  - Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
  - Harmonics aren't Hard!
  - Have a Good Time
  - Hey There!
  - Hickory Dickory Dock
  - Hide and Seek
  - Hocus Pocus
  - Hola
  - I am a River
  - Ice Dance
  - Let's Have a Holiday
  - Lullaby
  - Macaroni Cheese
  - Magic Polka
  - Marmaduke Mackenzie
  - Marzipan March
  - Me Too!
  - Moravian Carol
  - Old MacDonald
  - Pie in the Sky
  - Shortnin' Bread
  - Sun and Showers Duet
  - Swing Me
  - Tree Swing
  - Twinkle Duet
  - Who's That?