Sound Innovations for Concert Band Overview
Written by Robert Sheldon, Peter Boonshaft, Dave Black, Chris Bernotas, and Bob Phillips, The Sound Innovations authors bring years of extensive teaching, conducting, and composing experience. The most comprehensive method available, you can teach young band through advanced ensembles with the same series.
Course Components
Book 1
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 all new exercises and chorales, more technically and musically challenging material, and additional chorale composers.
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Sound Sight-Reading for Concert Band
This sight-reading method is comprised of effective music reading strategies and fun sight-reading games and challenges to build skills decoding and executing music at sight.
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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.
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Sound Leadership
Sound Leadership 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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SI Online
Perfect for remote teaching or for in-class needs such as differentiating your teaching for diverse learning abilities, SI Online includes all of the streaming MasterClass videos and accompaniment tracks for Sound Innovations.
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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.
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eBooks
Most Sound Innovations books are available on eBooks for iPads®, ChromebooksTM, PCs, and Macs®, allowing for use in 1:1 classrooms.
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