SKU: AP.40724

ISBN 9781470634018. UPC: 038081520568. English.

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)
* Chorales.

The 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. The Ensemble Development Series is also available for Intermediate and Advanced Band. Learn more at www.alfred.com/SIED.
This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

SKU: WD.080689522093

UPC: 080689522093.

The successful songwriting team of Lee Black and Gina Boe have joined with respected arranger and orchestrator Marty Hamby, and venerable wordsmith Deborah Craig-Claar, to create Crown Him...A Celebration of Our Risen King. Working together, this breath of fresh air creative collaboration brings you another powerful yet easy-to-learn, easy-to-sing Easter musical from the best-selling Simply Word series. All you need to add is your choir to have an impressive combination of gifts and talents for your next Easter service!

Crown Him is a wonderful combination of content, mixing new and familiar songs with current, popular songs (such as the title song, Crown Him, made popular by Chris Tomlin). The comfortable blending of songs and styles, expertly guided by Marty Hamby's choral and orchestral arranging and married with the promise of Simply Word's ease-of-performance editorial guidelines, make this a musical perfect for a broad range of choirs, needs and expectations.

In addition to the availability of a CD Accompaniment Track and an Orchestration, Simply Word also offers a visually-compelling DVD Accompaniment Track, designed to creatively and technically raise the production value of your Easter presentation and enhance the way you and your choir engage the congregation on the holiest of holy days.

This Easter, as you lead your church and community, celebrate the resurrection of our risen King and move hearts to deeper encounters with the Savior with the new Simply Word musical, Crown Him!

SKU: AP.47319

ISBN 9781470640835. UPC: 038081541587. English.

Part of the Sound Innovations family, Sound Percussion fills the need for a comprehensive percussion method that provides a clear progressions of notes, rhythms, and skills that can be used for group or individual lessons. Sound Percussion has a clear and flexible approach with plenty of reinforcement. Books are available: Teacher's Score * Snare Drum and Bass Drum * Mallet Percussion * Timpani * Accessory Instruments.

Sound Percussion contains seven sections covering everything from setting up the instruments to percussion ensemble performance. Sections include: Sound Preparation * Sound Rhythm * Sound Meter * Sound Rudiments * Sound Rolls * Sound Effects * Sound Performance. Directors can work through the book(s) progressively, or jump from section-to-section in order to address the specific educational needs of their students. The mallet book, however is more sequential by nature of note introduction.

Skills are introduced with a backward-by-design approach. Learning goals are first identified, and then exercises are logically designed with obtainable steps that lead you toward achieving that goal. This is particularly helpful for mallet note recognition and snare drum rolls.

Sound Percussion is a comprehensive resource that's perfect for teaching your students the fundamentals necessary to becoming well-rounded percussionists. This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

SKU: WD.080689876424

UPC: 080689876424.

The successful songwriting team of Lee Black and Gina Boe have joined with respected arranger and orchestrator Marty Hamby, and venerable wordsmith Deborah Craig-Claar, to create Crown Him...A Celebration of Our Risen King. Working together, this breath of fresh air creative collaboration brings you another powerful yet easy-to-learn, easy-to-sing Easter musical from the best-selling Simply Word series. All you need to add is your choir to have an impressive combination of gifts and talents for your next Easter service!

Crown Him is a wonderful combination of content, mixing new and familiar songs with current, popular songs (such as the title song, Crown Him, made popular by Chris Tomlin). The comfortable blending of songs and styles, expertly guided by Marty Hamby's choral and orchestral arranging and married with the promise of Simply Word's ease-of-performance editorial guidelines, make this a musical perfect for a broad range of choirs, needs and expectations.

In addition to the availability of a CD Accompaniment Track and an Orchestration, Simply Word also offers a visually-compelling DVD Accompaniment Track, designed to creatively and technically raise the production value of your Easter presentation and enhance the way you and your choir engage the congregation on the holiest of holy days.

This Easter, as you lead your church and community, celebrate the resurrection of our risen King and move hearts to deeper encounters with the Savior with the new Simply Word musical, Crown Him!