with Patrick Sheridan-This volume addresses all tuba players who would like to play the beautiful melodic parts they hear so often while playing in a band. In this play-along book you will have the opportunity to play 11 different melodies in various styles - mostly styles found in pop music! This book provides the opportunity for the tuba to be heard as a cool instrument while enriching the tuba player’s musical environment with melody rhythmic interest and relatable styles. You are about to be a part of a rock’n’ roll band a ska band and even a reggae group!

10 Original pieces in various styles-Ten fantastic pieces in varying styles with play-along instrumentation to match. You will have the opportunity to make music with a gypsy troupe a jazz combo an Irish dance band and even a tango ensemble. This is a fun play-along book that offers the tuba player every opportunity to develop sound technique and a varied musical language.

The Best of Belwin Jazz: First Year Charts for Jazz Ensemble is a collection of twelve outstanding jazz ensemble arrangements for the young player. Each chart is written by experienced educational arrangers and composers in various styles and tempos: swing, Latin, ballad, waltz, holiday and pop. This collection is written for full instrumentation - five saxophones, three trumpets, three trombones, and four rhythm - but is designed to sound full and complete with reduced instrumentation of three saxes, two trumpets, one trombone and three rhythm. Optional parts are available for flute, clarinet, tuba, horn in F, and baritone T.C. The rhythm section parts offer suggestions for rhythms, piano voicings, and guitar chord frames. All solos are written out in improvised sections. The conductor's book includes full-length CD recordings of all titles. Titles include: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home, Birth of the Blues, Embraceable You, First Time Around, Gospel, Hot Chocolate, Jazzmin Tea, Jingle Bell Rock, Poco Loco, Splanky, Sunday Morning, TMI

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. / Tuba