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. / Caisse Claire

Par BOURBASQUET JACKY / GASTALDIN. With few study books for Drums in existence, Drums Movie Session contributes to a series of prolific studies for the instrument, filling a vital gap. Accompanied by a CD, this progressive book effectively focuses on all styles of cinematic music, from Western to suspense. Compiled by Jacky Bourbasquet and Claude Gastaldin, two prominent drummers of our day, and with music specially composed by renowned pianist Lionel Melot, the book contains 33 pages of film music in various styles which will enable the pupil to progress in their instrumental study. Drums Movie Session is an indispensable complement totraditional teaching of the Drum Kit./ Recueil / Batterie