Skill Stretchers for Band

Not a warm-up – not a chorale – but a way to efficiently move your band beyond the first five notes by working to extend ranges, accidentals, and key signatures in a way that students discover for themselves! Prepare the clarinets to go over the break, introduce lip slurs for brass and octave slurs for other woodwinds. Accents, flams, paradiddles, and nine-stroke rolls are included for the snare drum. Octaves and arpeggios are introduced to mallet percussion. An excellent supplement to any band method – used for a few minutes a day, these exercises provide a systematic way to conquer many of the unique challenges that crop up with each instrument.