Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-03-07 15:12
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on page 5A the seventh exercise, the Long Haul has the picture/diagram of finger placement for the note G wrong. The one showing is for the G but it is incorrect that it is showing the placement for the G that is an octave higher. The picture shows that the left thumb is pressed, but for the note of this G clef note, it is not supposed to be that way. I located and reconfirmed with other pictures and other sources that this was indeed incorrect. Just three fingers are pressed on the left hand.
Hmmm...I began with the Essential Elements 2000 book two years ago this month, have it here in my lap (well-thumbed and marked up, heh) and I don't show that they've got the octave key for the high G colored in. Is it possible it's just a blob of ink, or a poor printing job, on your particular copy? My copy doesn't have a printing date, just says copyright 1999.
The Essential Elements 2000 series is the one that comes with the DVD for book 1. The old series, the just plain Essential Elements, doesn't. So yeah, I already have the CDs and the DVD, the works.
I may have an older edition of the book in which the DVD was glued afterwards into the back of the book when Hal Leonard started issuing DVDs to go with Book 1. I bought it at the local band instrument rental store, and they're not noted for fast turnover in oboe sheet music (she said drily). It was probably there on their shelf for a while.
So maybe you have a later edition in which there is a typo in that exercise.
ETA: Okay, I think the mystery is solved. I looked up the Essential Elements 2000 book in the Cascio Interstate Music catalog, and it has a picture of the front cover, and it says "Essential Elements 2000 Plus DVD" on it. The front cover of MY book just says "Essential Elements 2000".
And in the back of my book there are three pockets--two glued on the inside back cover, and one glued on the next page back, where you normally wouldn't glue a CD pocket because the paper isn't strong enough. And rummaging through the oboe CD box upstairs, I was reminded that my book actually came with 4 cds and the DVD. Two of the CDs say "Essential Elements 2000 Plus DVD", and two of them just say "Essential Elements 2000".
So I think what happened is that the music store had this copy of the basic Essential Elements 2000 book with the original 2 CDs, and then when Hal Leonard upgraded the 2000 series to include a DVD and 2 playalong CDs that would say "Essential Elements 2000 Plus DVD" on them, they got hold of the DVD and the two newer (yet basically identical) CDs, and just bundled it all together for me.
I never really thought about why I had what were basically duplicate CDs. It was all so strange and new to me. I just picked out what seemed to go with the book and used those.
I was able to get the MP3 files off the DVD on the computer for tracks 59 to the end, convert them to .wav files, and burn them onto CDs, in order to use them on my CD player upstairs and not have to practice tracks 59 to the end standing in the dining room next to the computer. So I never had to buy Playalong Discs 2, 3, and 4, that the book said were available.
So you must have the "Essential Elements 2000 Plus DVD" book, in which there apparently is a typo.
Post Edited (2007-03-07 17:17)
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