Sound Innovations for Concert Band Course Components
Written by Robert Sheldon, Peter Boonshaft, Dave Black, Chris Bernotas, Bob Phillips, as well as other fantastic pedagogues, the Sound Innovations authors bring years of extensive teaching, conducting, and composing experience. The most comprehensive method available, you can teach young through advanced bands, as well as solo and small ensemble performance with the same series.
Book 1
Perfect for beginners, Book 1 has clean page layouts, clear goals for each exercise, and is now completely free in MakeMusic Cloud (formerly SmartMusic)! Provide MasterClass lessons with the included instrument-specific videos and accompaniment recordings that are now available streaming on SI Online. The content is organized into six short levels, providing benchmarks, assessment indicators, and intermediate goals. Create better understanding with solid pedagogy, and a clean and uncluttered page layout.
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Book 2
Continue your students’ musical journey with Book 2, where new concepts are isolated and taught individually for better retention. Further reinforce ensemble playing with your students using the many practice performance opportunities that are provided throughout the book. Student books include instrument-family-specific videos and accompaniment recordings that are now available streaming on SI Online.
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Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band
Going well beyond band method books, Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band provides exercises needed to help students develop virtually every concept needed to build the foundational qualities of exceptional concert band performance. Great care has been taken to ensure that this book will allow for differentiation of students at various beginning band levels.
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Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band
The perfect resource for helping your students grow in their understanding and abilities as ensemble musicians. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or challenging their musicianship with beautiful chorales, this book can be used after any band method or as a supplement to performance music.
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Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band
Building upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band, this level features 399 exercises in a variety of intermediate to advanced difficulty levels, including over 70 chorales. The variety and vast quantity of exercises will keep your students engaged and challenged. The exercises are repeated in different keys to prevent students from only learning the concepts by muscle memory.
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Sound Sight-Reading for Concert Band
Written by Brian Beck, Scott Watson, and Robert Sheldon, this sight-reading method is comprised of effective and efficient music reading strategies and fun sight-reading games and challenges to build player and ensemble skill decoding and executing music at sight.
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Sound Innovations Soloist
Now available in print as well as in MakeMusic Cloud, these intermediate original solos for winds, strings, or percussion, will encourage independence and confidence in your students. Students can explore a wide variety of styles, composed by a talented group of writers including Erik Morales, Michael Kamuf, Adrian B. Sims, Lauren Bernofsky, Randall Standridge, Wesley Sumpter, and many more.
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Sound Performance
Sound Performance is a diverse selection of music that can be performed as solos, duets, or trios, with or without piano accompaniment. Designed to inspire confidence and musicality as well as musical independence, the selections are arranged for students who are toward the end of their first year of instruction and beyond.
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Sound Artistry
Written by Peter Boonshaft and Chris Bernotas and backed by collaborative partners and specialist teachers, this comprehensive book features lessons suitable for intermediate-to-advanced players with a focus on instrument-specific exercises—perfect for use after any method book to bridge the gap to conservatory methods. Available for: Flute • Oboe • Bassoon • Clarinet • Bass Clarinet • Saxophone • French Horn • Trumpet • Trombone • Euphonium B.C. • Euphonium T.C. • Tuba.
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Sound Percussion
Sound Percussion for Individual or Group Instruction is perfect for the director who is a non-percussion specialist as it provides a clear progression of notes, rhythms, and skills. Each book can be used independently to focus on a particular instrument or in any combination as a full percussion ensemble. A separate series of Sound Percussion Ensembles books provides 11 arrangements and two original pieces at the intermediate level designed to give your percussion students a valuable group performance experience.
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Sound Leadership
Let your students take ownership of their own learning and leading with Scott Lang's Sound Leadership. This leadership method book for band, choir, and orchestra students is designed to help facilitate an engaging and collaborative process between both student leaders and program directors that allows for self-discovery, goal-setting, and defining roles and responsibilities.
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MakeMusic Cloud
Provide opportunities for deliberate practice with almost every level of Sound Innovations available on MakeMusic Cloud (SmartMusic)! And Book 1 is completely free! In addition to the original accompaniments provided with the book, MakeMusic Cloud features Sound Innovations Extras where students can play their exercises while accompanied by exciting orchestral music from their favorite DC superhero movies including Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and more!.
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SI Online
Sound Innovations includes free access to SI Online, a robust platform for supplemental worksheets, practice tracks, alternate tunes, extra full concert band pieces, instrument-specific instructional videos, and more—all available with no login required. These resources support students from their very first notes to their final solo while giving teachers the flexibility to tailor pacing and instruction to meet the unique needs of their ensemble.
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Correlated Performance Music
Each correlated string orchestra and concert band performance music piece contains an educational pack that includes an emphasis on expressive playing, historical information, exercises to help with specific technical issues, notes on the composition, and more. Composed by expert composers including Robert Sheldon, Scott Watson, Chris Bernotas, Brian Beck, and more!
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eBooks
Many Sound Innovations books are available on eBooks for iPads®, ChromebooksTM, PCs, and Macs®, allowing for use in 1:1 classrooms.
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