Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The 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 the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. 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 Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Clarinette Basse

15 Selections for Young Concert Band-This part for Bass Clarinet correlates with Book 2 of Essential Elements for Band.This book features arrangements by Michael Sweeney Paul Lavender John Higgins John Moss and James Curnow.Contents: 'African Sketches' 'Barrier Reef' 'Do You Hear What I Hear' 'Elves' Dance' 'Firebird' 'Gaelic Dances' 'Irish Legends' 'On Broadway' 'Regimental Honor' 'Spinning Wheel' 'The Streets of Madrid' 'Summon the Heroes' and 'You're a Grand Old Flag'.

Comprehensive band method-Now the best-selling band method is even better! Book 1 for absolute beginners includes a start-up video and much much more all on CD-ROM.Features:Same great Essential Elements 2000 method!15-minute video/???super lesson??? for learning the basicsPlay-along mp3* tracks for all 185 exercises (featuring a professional player on your instrument)Tempo Adjustment SoftwareDuets and TriosMusic Listening LibrarySmartMusic? Software for Exercises 1-100 (for use on PC/Mac) - practice record and email a performance with on-screen assessment