Tradition of Excellence by Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nowlin is a comprehensive and innovative curriculum designed to appeal to today s students. The music; the dynamic look; the scope and sequence; the tools for differentiated instruction; the smooth pacing with careful review; and the included INTERACTIVE Practice StudioTM make Tradition of Excellence the fastest growing band method today! Read more

A Comprehensive Method Book for Year One and Beyond. Composed by Jeff Scott and Scott Rush. Habits of a Successful Musician. Music Education. 56 pages. GIA Publications #10174. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10174). Read more

There are several aspects of brass instrument technique, and most techniques share a common requirement: good flexibility. Practicing flexibility can have a positive impact on almost every technique."Total Flexibility" provides an organized and progressive approach to developing excellent technique. Practicing the exercises in this book is often the most efficient way to achieve great technique. Read more

From the Works of Concone, Marchesi, and Panofka. Edited and arranged by Reginald H. Fink. Vocalises and etudes annotated for style and technique. A great book for the instruction of legato technique. Tessitura is perfect for the bass trombone, with ample opportunities for valve technique to be practiced while developing a solid legato style. Read more

(Music Sales America). This work is dedicated to John Fletcher, who gave the first performance on 24 April 1976. The concerto is in three movements, the first in sonata-form shell with two contrasting themes. There is a reference made in the development section to the opening theme of Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto . Set as part of the ABRSM Tuba Syllabus. Read more

Performance level of the ensemble. From as little as five minutes a day to forty-five minutes a day, this book offers the flexibility and options to fit any particular band situation for year two throughout high school. It also provides the director with the resources to meet each student on his or her own level while challenging them to reach the next level.Foundations For Superior Performance includes:Warm-Ups articulation exercises, long tones, and progressive brass lip slurs and woodwind exercises to be played simultaneously.Chorales and Tuning Exercises interval tuning, chord tuning, and chorales in the eight main concert band keys.Technique major and minor scales, mini-scales, scale patterns, scales in thirds, interval studies, and triad and chord studies in all 12 keysPlus one octave scales and arpeggios, full range scales, chromatic scales, major arpeggios and inversions, and advanced fingering charts.Percussion Book Practical exercises for mallets, snare drum, auxiliary percussion, and timpani. 96 pages. By using Foundations For Superior Performance, the following areas can be improved: Sound (tone production).Articulation (styles and concepts).Greater flexibility, agility, and endurance.Increased range.Individual and ensemble listening skillsTechnique in all twelve major and minor keys.Basic understanding of music theory. Read more

101 Hit Songs for Tuba – Solo Instrumental Sheet Music * Enhance your tuba repertoire with this comprehensive sheet music collection, featuring 101 top pop hits. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, this songbook offers authentic transcriptions of today’s most popular songs, making it a perfect choice for practice, performances, and recitals. * * Play Iconic Pop Songs on Tuba * This collection includes best-selling hits like All of Me, Clocks, Uptown Funk, Shake It Off, Rolling in the Deep, Royals, and more. With easy-to-follow notation and clear arrangements, this book is ideal for musicians of all levels. A valuable music teacher resource, it’s great for individual study or band performances. * * A Great Gift for Musicians & Music Enthusiasts * Looking for a gift for a tuba player or music student? This softcover songbook makes a fantastic present for birthdays, holidays, or special occasions. Whether for personal enjoyment or teaching, this collection is a must-have for every tuba player. * * Songs Included * All of Me * Clocks * Uptown Funk * Shake It Off * Rolling in the Deep * Royals * Say Something * Firework * Hey, Soul Sister * I Gotta Feeling * A Thousand Years * You Raise Me Up * What Makes You Beautiful * Thinking Out Loud * When You Say Nothing at All * and more! Read more

The Standard of Excellence ENHANCED Comprehensive Band Method Books 1 & 2 combines a strong performance-centered approach with music theory, music history, ear training, listening, composition, improvisation, and interdisciplinary and multicultural studies. Each book comes with access to a website containing all the full band accompaniments and the revolutionary iPAS Practice and Assessment Software. Directors will welcome the complete accompaniments and inspiring software. Students will find the new package makes practicing not only fun but effective, too! The result is the most complete band method available anywhere.Features include: Full color drawings and color-coding of important text and music motivate and inform. Three starting systems help ensure positive results in any beginning situation. FOR ... ONLY exercises (i.e. FOR FLUTES ONLY) offer idiomatic solutions to the unique challenges of each instrument. Excellerators (advanced supplemental exercises) reinforce and enrich performance basics. A nine page FOR OBOES ONLY starting system gives beginners a solid foundation for learning in the full band setting. Expanded French Horn and Percussion books, including a separate book for Timpani & Auxiliary Percussion, address the unique needs of beginners on these instruments. A comprehensive, totally-correlated Electric Bass book offers expanded opportunities for student involvement. Music from over 20 countries, with correlated enrichments, encourages multicultural study. Achievement Lines and GO FOR EXCELLENCE! test lines ensure objective assessment of students' accomplishments. A built-in reward system motivates students and encourages musical growth. Expanded 48 page part books (instead of the usual 32 pages) provide added reinforcement of musical skills. Read more

The Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method Books 1 and 2 combine a strong performance-centered approach with music theory, music history, ear training, listening composition, improvisation, and interdisciplinary and multicultural studies. The result is the most complete band method available anywhere.Full color drawings and color-coding of important text and music motivate and inform. Three starting systems help ensure positive results in any beginning situation. FOR ... ONLY exercises (i.e. FOR FLUTES ONLY) offer idiomatic solutions to the unique challenges of each instrument. Excellerators (advanced supplemental exercises) reinforce and enrich performance basics. A nine page FOR OBOES ONLY starting system gives beginners a solid foundation for learning in the full band setting. Expanded French Horn and Percussion books, including a separate book for Timpani & Auxiliary Percussion, address the unique needs of beginners on these instruments. A comprehensive,totally-correlated Electric Bass book offers expanded opportunities for student involvement. Music from over 20 countries, with correlated enrichments, encourages multicultural study. Achievement Lines and GO FOR EXCELLENCE! test lines ensure objective assessment of students' accomplishments. A built-in reward system motivates students and encourages musical growth. Expanded 48 page part books (instead of the usual 32 pages) provide added reinforcement of musical skills. 600-plus page full Conductor Scores contain Objectives for every line of music, Director tips, extended reference articles, duplicable worksheets and quizzes, and theory, listening, composing, improvisation, geography, foreign language, history, and other interdisciplinary Activities for Excellence. Read more

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(Essential Elements Band Folios). A collection of popular movie songs arranged to be played by either full band or by individual soloists with optional accompaniment CD or tape. Each arrangement is correlated with a specific page in the Essential Elements Band Method Books. Includes: Forrest Gump - Main Title, The John Dunbar Theme, Theme from "Jurassic Park," Raiders March, Chariots of Fire, Apollo 13, Somewhere Out There, Man from Snowy River, Star Trek - The Motion Picture, Theme from E.T., and Back to the Future. Read more

A conservatory-style approach to the various brass methods, utilizing Beeler's own teaching techniques. Read more

(Essential Elements Band Folios). 30 popular melodies at an easy level in solo books for all the instruments in the Essential Elements Band Method. Perfect motivational music for students to play and practice featuring songs by Billie Eilish, Queen, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, Star Wars, The Avengers , and more! Titles include: Believer * Blinding Lights * Don't Stop Believin' * Dynamite * Hallelujah * The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) * Let It Go * Senorita * Seven Nation Army * Sucker * This Is Me * We Are the Champions * Wildest Dreams * You Will Be Found * and more. Read more

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Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician is a field-tested, vital, and most importantly musical collection of more than 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals. Perfect for use by an entire band or solo player for years two, three, and beyond, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, chorales, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary exercises, and much more. In one place, this series presents everything an aspiring player needs to build fundamental musicianship skills and then be able to transfer those skills directly into the performance of great literature. Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician: Provides material for use during fundamentals time that promotes a comprehensive approach to developing skills necessary to fill the musical toolbox. Presents effective exercises for clarinets going over the break, trombones in second and fifth position, flutes going from C to D, percussion sticking, trombone F- attachment tips, and L and R indicators for clarinet. Includes a sequential format that leads to the mastery of reading rhythms and ultimately, to musical sight-reading. Provides chorales for the development of tone quality, ensemble sonority, and musicianship. Combines pedagogy, technique building, fundamentals development, sight-reading and musicianship into one book under one cover. Habits of a Successful Middle School Musician is the answer to the question: What should I be learning during fundamentals time? Table of Contents: I. Warm-Up; II. Chorales; III. Rhythm Vocabulary; IV. Sight-Reading by Level; V. Audition Sight-Reading by Time Signature Read more

This First Book of Practical Studies is designed to develop chord consciousness and to provide additional experience in the fundamental rhythms, key signatures and articulations and to improve accuracy in reading through the use of interesting and melodic studies. It may be used either to supplement or to follow any beginning method book. Read more

Gorgeous Blank Sheet Music NotebookThis music manuscript paper notebook is perfect for music composition, college and high school music classes, theory classes or transcribing music.To Compose Music at your pace and Write Notes and Lyrics on Lined and Staff Paper, this blank sheet music notebook is a great tool to use.Features:WHITE PAPER.100 PAGES of Lined and Staff Paper.13 STAVES per Page with thin Lines.2 Additional Lines at the bottom of every Page to write Annotations.Enough space between staves for Lyrics.IDEAL FOR STUDENTS, amateurs and professionals.MEASURES 8.5 x 11 inches.DURABLE Glossy Cover.If you are looking for more cover design options, simply click on the author’s name for many more affordable Notebook and Journal choices. All our Blank Sheet Music Notebook Designs are available with White or Cream paper interiors.Whether as a Thoughtful Gift or a Sheet Music Notebook for Yourself, the pages are ready and waiting to be filled!Just scroll to the top of the page and select the Buy Now button. Read more

Classic Festival Solos offers the advancing instrumentalist an array of materials graded from easy to more challenging. There are different titles for each instrument, and an assortment of musical styles has been included in each book for variety. Many of the solos appear on state contest lists. Titles:* Allegro (Saint-Saens, arr. Dishinger)* Aurora (Ostling)* Bordogni Medley (arr. Bowles)* Bourree (Handel, arr. Swanson)* Dance of the Slovaks (Bartok, arr. Dishinger)* The Elephant Dance (Weber)* Gallant Captain (arr. Ostling)* Largetto and Allegro (Handel, arr. Little)* Legend (Stoutamire)* Military March (arr. Little)* Minuet (Eccles, arr. Dishinger)* Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Spiritual, arr. Barnes)* Where'er You Walk (Handel, arr. Swanson)* Work Song (Barnes) Read more

The contents of the Solo Sounds folios features works on State Contest lists for each instrument (and pieces that are likely list candidates). Two folios are available for each instrument (flute, clarinet, oboe, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba), both with supplementary piano accompaniment volumes. Read more

The Belwin Student Instrumental Course is a course for individual instruction and class instruction of like instruments, at three levels, for all band instruments. Each book is complete in itself, but all books are correlated with each other. Although each book can be used separately, all supplementary books should be used as companion books with the method. Read more