Foundations Pack 1

A set of 5 progressive exercises to use throughout their first year of beginning band as part of their daily warmup routine. Each exercise focuses on a specific range of notes; helping your beginners build the foundation needed to play and perform music well. Starting Off Start off with an exercise that focuses on getting their fundamental skills ingrained with only 3 notes (Concert D, C, Bb). Get their hand position, embouchure, air stream, tone, and pitch off to good start every day as a review. Flutes have to maintain their hand position moving from D to C frequently during these exercises. Ends with Mary had a Little Lamb to put it all together. Moving On Moving On extends their range out to a full octave. Using whole, half, and quarter notes, students get to expand their range into the lower register, building their air, tone, pitch and focus while strengthening their embouchure. Moving Around Build fluidity with air and embouchure flexibility through lip slurs, tetra chords, octave leaps. Introduces clarinets to register drills to build an understanding of how air speed functions throughout the entire range of their instrument. Moving Forward This is the big one. Combining major scales, lip slurs, octaves, register drills, clarinet scale patterns across break, and the chromatic scale. A real air and embouchure builder. After accomplishing this one, they will be able to move forward into performing a diverse set of repertoire. Moving Up Adding range is very important during beginning band. Having a correct air stream and developed embouchure are of a necessity in order to master these top tones for beginners. Combines register patterns for clarinets and valve patterns for brass to relate register shifts to their learning.