Join world-renowned composer arranger teacher judge and clinician Richard Saucedo as he guides you through a system of teaching music fundamentals that has earned acclaim and success at both the state and national levels. ThisDeveloping the Individual DVD presents innovative ideas for teaching today's best symphonic bands featuring Saucedo's proven strategies for increasing music achievement. Chapters include: The First 20 Minutes of Rehearsal Listen/Sing/Play Will You Folks Just Play in Time? Those Pesky Long Tones Band Kids Love Scales Band Kids Love Chorales Individual Practice Time The Big Picture and Isolated Practice Rooms (Wenger).

Vol. 1-Drawing on his many years of experience building nationally acclaimed band programs and also his work as a successful guest conductor and clinician Richard Saucedo has created a much-needed set of key-based chorales. These chorales incorporate the concept of drones (included on every part) and in addition to helping your ensemble focus on tuning these are great for developing tone balance and phrasing. Vol 1 includes three chorales: Bb major D minor Eb major.

Drum Set Pitched Percussion Hand Percussion Marching...and more!-Award-winning author columnist performer bandleader and clinician Daniel Glass offers students a comprehensive introduction to drums and percussion from hand drums to digital kits and everything in between. In thiswell-illustrated guide Glass covers the history of the drum tracing the development of the modern drum kit while also discussing hand concert marching and electronic percussion. In addition to breaking down the equipment andaccessories needed available to today's young drummer Glass offers notated lessons that explore basic rudiments as techniques used in classical world jazz rock and other genres. A noted historian as well as performer Glassalso profiles great drummers from the jazz age through today. The included DVD-ROM offers high-quality footage from Glass' clinics and performances.