Exercises for Ensemble Drill

20 Purpose Driven Etudes to Develop Essential Choral Skills-Gary Walth's Warm-Up! contains a perfect set of warm-ups for the Choral ensemble that's designed to enhance and stimulate the growth of each member's Vocal and Choral ability. Thinking of the warm-up as a 'mini Voice lesson' you can reinforce concepts with consistent encouragement criticism problem-solving and praise. This practical volume will help the conductor provide purposeful leadership and develop artistry in each individual through exercises for breath support open tone flexibility vowel uniformity balance intonation and much more.Each exercise includes a notated Keyboard accompaniment with multiple modulations andprofessional recordings of a Rhythm section and singers performing each drill on the enclosed CD.

Although this book has been written as a logical sequel to Book I of the Breeze-Easy Method for Trumpet (Cornet) it may be used advantageously as a follow-up to any good beginning method. As in Book I the trumpet and Trombone books may be used in conjunction with each other thus facilitating the organization of brass classes. Four major areas are emphasized in each lesson: Embouchure Development Each lesson has a warm-up exercise progressing from long tones and easy lip slurs in the early lessons to moderately advanced flexibility studies in the later lessons. Interval studies are also frequently employed to give the student drillin tone placement. A playing knowledge of scales Each lesson contains concentrated scale practice in the belief that a mastery of scales is essential to general technique an facility. Rhythmic reading All rhythmic studies are designed to develop independence in reading and all duets are contrapuntal in style giving the student the responsibility of carrying his own part. This individual independence in reading is a basic to efficient ensemble performance. Developing a conception of legato (song style) playing Folk ballads are generously interspersed throughout the book in the belief that the development of a singing tone is a most important and oft-times most neglected phase of wind instrument performance.