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Carl Fischer LLC

Give your middle-level band the tools they need to produce smooth legato playing.  This series of books for all band instruments presents a logical sequence in a variety of keys to improve this important aspect of band performance.  Each key has drills that emphasize basic understanding and builds on chord progression movement from whole notes to half notes and then quarter notes.  Each sequence then builds to a full chorale setting based on the studied chord progressions.  This progressive approach to connecting notes will have a lasting impact on the tone, balance, blend and intonation of your ensemble.  There are also daily warm-ups included to build strength and flexibility in the brass, technical facility in the woodwinds and rudiments in the percussion.  Since the book is specifically designed for the middle-level band, there has been careful consideration given to instrument range and the keys presented.

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Flute Method Book

Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Take your band to the next level with this warm-ups and technique book for band. The book is designed to help organize the daily rehearsal and to improve the overall performance level of an 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. 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. By using Foundations for Superior Performance, you will see improvement in tone production; articulation; flexibility; agility; endurance; range; listening skills; technique and understanding basic music theory.

Foundations for Superior Performance

Solutions for Teachers

The second level of this assessment method includes 120 assessments, etudes, multiple-octave major, melodic minor, and harmonic minor scales, as well as modes, improvisation, and intonation studies. Also included are written assessments that include composition and improvisation.

AIM For Success, Book 2

Conductor Collection

Alfred Music Publishing

Building on the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Band, here are 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galante, David Gillingham, Stephen Melillo, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Jack Stamp, Randall Standridge, and Michael Story. This book is a valuable resource in helping students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Exercises are grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety while accomplishing the same goals. Its flexibility makes it perfect for large ensemble rehearsals, lessons, and studio use.

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band

Flute 1 Method Book

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Wingert-Jones Publications

Based on the best-selling series from Jerry West, this volume presents 50 original exercises to challenge the wind band at a Grade 2-3 level. Longer etudes, 16th notes, minor keys, and a few modes can be found in this more advanced collection. This is a fine way to prepare for upcoming adjudications and to build a sight-reading regimen into the curriculum for wind players as it complies with the NAfME National Standards that define proficiency levels in grades 5-12. Creative, fun to play, and full of twists and surprises, it will keep your musicians on their toes as it teaches independence and musicianship through every section of the ensemble.

The Sight-Reading Book for Better Bands

Score Method Book

FJH Music Company Inc

A fabulous comprehensive approach to rhythm, taking students from the most basic building block of music - the quarter note - to compound meter and everything in between! Daily exercises isolate the building blocks of rhythm in a logical and sequential way. Ensembles (no instruments required) in the form of rounds, duets, trios, and full-page performance pieces allow students to learn and perform advanced rhythms without using instruments. Games are suggested throughout to make rhythm instruction fun. Students will gain confidence and fluency with a number of fresh methods suggested throughout the book. Perfect for students who do not yet have their instruments and as a supplement for directors who want to develop better rhythm and pulse in their students and ensembles.

Count Me In

All Instruments Collection

GIA Publications

This method presents interpretative suggestions to enhance ensemble musicianship for band directors and students in these areas: rhythm; melody and phrasing; dynamics and balance; embellishments; articulations and accents; style; tempo; releases; and intonation. Each area presents a variety of concepts for musical expressiveness, and there are more than 225 exercises and excerpts to use during warm-ups or when transferring an expressive concept to the band's current literature. The method includes intonation exercises that illustrate how to properly tune a chord; scale-based exercises written in the common keys of F, B-flat, and E-flat that can be used as part of a rehearsal warm-up to reinforce expressive concepts; band excerpts to illustrate how expressive concepts can be transferred to actual wind band literature; a key sheet to explore how players’ parts may be edited to increase the quality of musicianship; more than 40 ideas for increasing the ensemble's musical potential; a sample lesson plan and template to illustrate how to transfer knowledge to your current curriculum; and additional tips in the conductor's score for teaching each concept.

Expressive Musicianship

C Instruments Method Book C Instruments (Flute, Oboe, Keyboard Percussion)

A field tested musical collection of over 300 sequenced exercises for building fundamentals for use with the entire band or individual students.  This series contains warm-ups, chorales, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary exercises, and much more.  An aspiring musician can find everything needed to build fundamental musicianship skills that will transfer into accomplished musical performance.

Habits of a Successful Middle Level Musician

Flute Collection

Here is a valuable resource that will help students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. It contains 412 exercises, including more than 70 chorales as well as an assortment of exercises grouped by key and presented in a variety of intermediate difficulty levels. Where possible, several exercises in the same category are provided to allow variety, while accomplishing the goals of that specific type of exercise. Exercises and chorales are clearly marked with dynamics, articulations, style, and tempo for students to practice those aspects of performance. Other exercises are intentionally left flexible for the teacher to determine how best to use them in facilitating the goals and addressing the needs of their ensemble. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship with beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music.

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band

Perfect for use by an entire band or solo player at virtually any skill level, this series contains carefully sequenced warm-ups, sight-reading etudes, rhythm vocabulary builders and much more! In one place, this series collects 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 Musician

The industry leader in sight-reading preparation! This effective and efficient curriculum to develop sight-reading skills eliminates the need to retrieve music from the library, hand it out to the band, collect and reassemble it in score order, and file it back in the library. Available in five volumes, each book provides 100 short pieces and saves valuable rehearsal time. For effective rehearsal planning, an index is provided in the score with key signatures, meters, and primary rhythmic figures to provide assistance in creating lesson plans. The music is arranged in a flexible manner so that it can be adapted to a wide range of ensemble sizes with varying instrumentation. The exercises feature various key signatures and meters, key changes, meter changes, accidentals, reversal of rhythms, repeats of various types, hemiola, and isolation of various sections of the ensemble. Volumes 1-4 are designed to supply material for an entire four-year concert band experience without repeating any exercise. A proven tool for developing musicianship and for the efficient preparation for sight-reading contests.

The Sight-Reading Book for Band, Vol. 1

An excellent aid to developing sight-reading skills!  Written in unison throughout, these 101 studies stress rhythmic patterns and division of the measure.  An exceptionally functional, productive book!

101 Rhythmic Rest Patterns

A complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians, this series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at grade levels 1/2 - 1 1/2 are grouped by key. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using this series.

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band

Flute/Oboe Method Book

Excelcia Music Publishing, LLC

The quintessential method for preparing your ensemble for rehearsal and performance! This easy-to-use system can be implemented in a short amount of time while still accomplishing a well-balanced and complete warm-up. The book is structured in six modules that explore and reinforce fundamentals in 12 major keys and some minor keys:
 
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<li>the Body Module for breathing and stretching</li>
<li>the Tone Module for long tones and flexibility</li>
<li>the Scale Module for scale patterns, progressions, and third patterns</li>
<li>the Technical Module for articulations and technical etudes</li>
<li>the Rhythm Module for rhythm studies and technical rhythm etudes</li>
<li>the Ensemble Module which includes 40 chorales in all 12 major keys and numerous minor keys.</li>
</ul>
 
Whether you have two minutes or twenty, this has everything you need for a well-balanced and complete start to any rehearsal or performance!

The Complete Warm-Up for Band

This book may be used in several settings including large and chamber ensembles, and group and private instruction. Following the 16-week calendar in Superior Bands in Sixteen Weekswill help your students develop greater skills in tone production, intonation, balance and technique.

Superior Bands in 16 Weeks

This collection of studies in every major and minor key features chromatic intervals, interval tuning, chorales, drone exercises, and descending triad exercises in major, minor, and diminished chords. It also includes are over 30 chorales and block chord studies as well as several recommended tuning notes for every instrument. Whole-section and whole-band tuning chorales will give a quick snapshot of your band's intonation and instantly identify any sections that are out of tune. Free downloadable drones in every key are also available.

Tuned In

This is a must-have band book! Consisting of 96 masterfully harmonized scales in all keys, major and minor, this is an exceptionally useful and functional book for building musicianship and awareness in students of any age. Considered by many thousands of band directors to be an indispensable part of daily warm-ups, this outstanding book should definitely be a part of every band library from junior high through college. It's that good!

Treasury of Scales

Sound Sight-Reading by Brian Beck, Scott Watson, and Robert Sheldon is part of the revolutionary Sound Innovations for Concert Band series. Sound Sight-Reading provides students with decoding strategies to help with reading music more quickly and accurately. Organized in six progressively detailed and expressive levels, each section introduces and reviews new notes, rhythms, time signatures, and other musical elements through a variety of performance material. The teacher's score is packed with insights and ideas for musical games to help keep things fun and challenging. 
 
Experience the many benefits of improved sight-reading: 
 Maximize the contact time you have with students. 
 Spend less time learning notes and more time learning expression, phrasing, balance, etc. 
 Achieve better scores at festivals and other assessments.

Sound Sight-Reading for Concert Band, Book 1

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Hal Leonard Corporation

This book features a key-centered system with nine major and related minor keys, scales, etudes, chorales, technique exercises, individual instrument studies, professional recordings, a special studies section, reading skill builders, rhythm pages, jazz style and improvisation, Rubank scales and arpeggios, integrated history, theory and creativity, great music in various styles, and more.  You can instantly stream or download play-along recordings of all exercises. Solo parts are played by professional musicians and accompaniment-only tracks are recorded in various popular styles. If there is no internet access, instructions are included for ordering a free CD.

Essential Technique for Band

Designed for musicians who have completed any second level method, this book features scales, thirds, and arpeggios; technique, articulation, and melodious etudes; plus excerpts from the classical repertoire and full-band chorales in 16 major and minor keys. With emphasis placed on specific musicianship skills, plus options for students at various levels of ability, this book goes above and beyond technique books of the past. Whether used in private lessons or in a group it is sure to improve technical ability and enhance artistic sensitivity for years to come.

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