Saxofoon Methodes en Etudes-Blues Horn Ensemble Playing is the result of the combined efforts of Andrew D. Gordon and Frank Villafranca to present the material in a way in which beginning and intermediate horn players can gain an understanding of blues ensemble playing quickly and easily.The twenty examples recorded on the CD provide a dual purpose. They take you through a variety of musical styles including swing blues slow blues funky blues jazz blues latin blues minor blues mostly based on the standard 12 bar blues chord progression and include four choruses each. The first two choruses are recorded with the horns and rhythm section consisting of keyboards guitar bass and drumsand the last two choruses are rhythm section only. On the last two choruses you may want to play the riffs again or practice playing your own melodic blues solos.These examples will help you build a repertoire of riffs you can use in a live situation. Hopefully they will also provide inspiration to help you come up with your own ideas.

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. / Cor

Abracadabra Brass - Tuition is the beginners' tutors series for all the brass instruments. It contains carefully graded pieces and exercises enough flexibility to suit individual teaching and ensemble skills taught through duets and trios.Abracadabra French Horn leads the learner from the earliest stages to competence introducing the basic range of the instrument. The material is carefully graded and has been selected to cover each aspect of technique. It has a bright new cover giving it a fresh and contemporary new look and is the perfect book for pupil and teacher.

Repertoire for Brass Ensemble and Organ. Suitable for amateur ensembles and non-professional church musicians.A variety of instrumental parts allow many performance options.The Organ plus Brass series presents original works and arrangements for Organ and Brass choir specially tailored to meet the needs of amateur ensembles and non-professional organists. The pieces may be played by any constellation of Brass Ensemble.Volume IV contains arrangements of church music by Charles Villiers Stanford both chorale-based and freely composed. The original works for Choir and Organ can be appropriately transferred to the festive scoring for Brass ensembleand Organ.Stanford (1852 - 1924) was an Irish born composer teacher and conductor. Following studies at the University of Cambridge he studied music in Leipzig and Berlin before returning to England where he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music in London. He taught composition there until the end of his life.

Write for a horn section!
In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments, and how to order them effectively. You will also learn the different roles that a horn section can serve in your ensemble. Online audio tracks demonstrate the key concepts, as exemplified in a complete score.
You will learn to:
Write for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, as well as trumpet and trombone
Construct common voicings, such as unisons, octave unisons, two- to five-part soli, and open voicings
Expand your harmony by using jazz chords
Use brass mutes
Compose many textures, including melodies, solis, fills, pads, comping parts, background lines, and others
Score advanced harmonic techniques characteristic of brass sections, such as chromatic approach chords, four- and five-part voicings, tension substitutions, and more
?An amazing book that opens your mind for new horn arranging techniques. Horns on steroids!?
?Hassan El Shafei, Artist/Record Producer
?Arranging for Horns is the one-stop-shop the young arranger can make to explore the techniques, applications, and context for contemporary horn arranging. Jerry Gates masterfully compiled three decades of experience?both in classroom and in professional writing?into an organized and concise 80-page text. Highly recommended!?
?Adi Yeshaya, Composer, Arranger (Prince, Aretha Franklin, The Voice)
?An insightful and valuable resource for all arrangers. Jerry?s explanations are very clear and concise. Highly recommended!?
?Mark Harrison, Keyboardist/Composer, Music Educator, and Author
?Jerry is a devoted musician and educator who has written yet another clear and concise book! This time Jerry guides the reader through a direct and useful approach to writing horn arrangements. Included are rhythm section considerations, notations, and a valuable mention about contour shaping as the blueprint for a successful arrangement. This book demystifies arranging for horns and inspires us to dive right in. There are great tools included and distilled from Jerry?s many years of experience and education. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get quick and positive results without excess theory to weigh the creative process down.?
?David Goldblatt, Composer, Pianist, and Music Director (for national television programs, world tours, and varied media)
?Jerry Gates? Arranging for Horns is a concise yet thorough guide to horn arranging in jazz and popular styles. The book progresses through each vital instrument, offering writing techniques for them as individuals and as a group. Arranging for Horns goes one step further than many treatments of this topic, looking at how an arrangement can vary throughout a song?changing the intensity of the music. This added consideration gives arrangers a powerful tool for adding shape and contour to their songs. Recommended for all arrangers and songwriters.?
?Ben Newhouse, Composer and Educator
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This top-rated collection of solo literature from the celebrated Rubank catalog is known by teachers and students everywhere. Each book offers a superb variety of solos customized for that instrument and most state solo/ensemblecontest lists include several solos from this collection. (Piano accompaniment sold separately.) Now available:Performance/Accompaniment CD (04002519)Solo Book withPerformance/Accompaniment CD (04002520)Now students can perform these acclaimed solos with high quality recordings. Includes full performances by professional players as well as piano accompaniment tracks.

Instrumental Play-Along-Here is a fantastic opportunity for you to become the soloist in these specially selected Disney favourites! Each song is presented in clear notation and the accompanying audio files feature a full demonstration and backing track for each song so that you can experience the sound of a professional ensemble as your band! Fifteen songs have been selected from rich Disney heritage including unforgettable moments from Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book all specially arranged for Horn.

Instrumental Play-Along-Here is a fantastic opportunity for you to become the soloist in these specially selected favourite Christmas Carols! Each song is presented in clear notation and the accompanying CD features a full demonstration and backing track for each song so that you can experience the sound of a professional ensemble as your band! Fifteen evocative and heart-warming seasonal songs have been selected including Deck the Hall O Little Town of Bethlehem Good King Wenceslas and The First Noel all specially arranged for Horn.

The Boosey Brass Method is a complete course for individual and group teaching. Full to the brim with tips tricks important advice and golden rules as well as progressive repertoire examples this is a spectacular way to learn to play your instrument! It has been specifically designed to be used as a joint learning method with supervised or classroom work and home study combining to maximise learning potential. The novel and intuitive lay-out clearly shows warm-ups and breathing exercises; clapping singing and echo games; ensemble and individual work. The pack contains two fabulous CDs of demonstration performances backing tracks and listeningactivities which will aid development as well as being great fun! In conjunction with the illustrations exercises and the carefully considered progression this is one of the best ways to learn to play your instrument as part of an ensemble and at home.

From the classics to todays hits, these timeless tunes are now available as easy arrangements for Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, French Horn and Trombone. All wind instrument arrangements are fully compatible and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos. A fully orchestrated accompaniment CD is provided, featuring each song as a live performance demo track followed by a playalong track. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day); Celebration (Kool And The Gang); My Immortal (Evanescence); Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye (Steam); New Soul (Yael Naim); Old Time Rock and Roll (Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band); Open Arms (Journey); (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones); Smooth (Santana featuring Rob Thomas); Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin); Take It Easy (Eagles); You And Me (Lifehouse).

60 Progressive Duets for Horns-The early stages of learning any instrument are undoubtedly the most important. A good teacher is of course essential but it is also vital to have stimulating pieces to play which complement your choice of teaching method and are carefully tailored to introduce learning and playing skills in a structured manner. As in the book of Starter Studies the duets in Starter Duets introduce new musical elements in a logical order to facilitate the speedy growth of the ?complete musician? with the obvious benefit of allowing teacher and student (or two students) to play together and therefore experience the benefits of ensemble playing in the learning process.

Pacific Coast Horns revient dans ce troisième volume de plus grands, réalisée à la perfection dans une version de référence scintillant, puis vous prenez votre instrument et de prendre des fonctions soliste avec l'ensemble! / Cor Français

Pacific Coast Horns returns in this third volume of greats performed to perfection in a scintillating reference version. Listen and then you pick up your instrument and take soloist's duties with the ensemble! 12 songs: Alexander's Ragtime Band - Amazing Grace - Blue Danube - Caravan - Harlem Nocturne - Stompin' at the Savoy - and more.

A series of carefully crafted trios for use with or without the Look Listen and Learn method book. Playing in trios develops ensemble playing and listening skills and these books provide fresh and original material for young musicians. Book 1 correlates with Volume 1 of the Method book.